Rodney’s name is not even mentioned (p. 263). Rodney captured five line-of-battle ships in the battle. Four of them, with three English 74-gun ships, sailed from Jamaica for England at the end of July 1782, but all save two were lost on the way. Two of the prizes, the Ville de Paris and the Glorieux, foundered with all hands; a third, the Hector, was lost, though 200 of the crew were saved by the privateer Hawke. One of the English seventy-fours, the Ramillies, became unseaworthy, lost all her masts, and was abandoned. Another, the Centaur, went down with all her crew except twelve men on September 23, 1782. The ballad called _The Loss of the Centaur_ (p. 265) commemorates the escape of Captain Inglefield and the twelve survivors (Laughton, _Sea Fights and Adventures_, p. 153; Clowes, iv. 88). Several ballads of the period relate to engagements between single ships. _Captain Farmer_ (p. 260) describes the hard-fought encounter between the Quebec and Surveillante off Ushant on October 6, 1779. The Quebec took fire and blew up, and Captain George Farmer went down with his ship. Others relate to the fortunes of American privateers. On the American side the laureate of the war was Philip Freneau, whose poems appeared for the most part in newspapers published in America during the war. They were collected and published at Philadelphia in 1786, and republished in England in 1861 by Russell Smith. Many refer to incidents in the naval war. One is _Captain Jones’s Invitation to American Backwoodsmen to become Sailors_; another, _On the Memorable Victory gained by the gallant Captain Paul Jones_, narrates his capture of the Serapis. There are _Stanzas on the new American frigate Alliance_; _On the Death of Captain Nicholas Biddle_, commander of the Randolph, a 32-gun frigate, blown up in action with the British 64-gun ship _Yarmouth_ on March 7, 1778. A third poem, _The British Prison Ship_, tells of the capture of the American privateer Aurora by the Iris (once the American frigate Hancock) and the sufferings of the prisoners on board the hulks Scorpion and Hunter. _The Sailor’s Invitation_ is an encouragement to ship under Captain Barney on board the Hyder Ally privateer; another ballad, describes the capture of the sloop General Monk by the Hyder Ally on April 8, 1782. (Freneau’s Poems, pp. 144, 146, 164, 183, 235, 239, 241.) Another collection, _Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution_, edited by Frank Moore, 1856, contains a satirical letter in verse describing the capture of the South Carolina, a 40-gun frigate, by the British ships Diomede and Quebec on December 20, 1782 (Clowes, iv. 91). The major operations of the war of the French Revolution and the general engagements are illustrated by numerous ballads, though for the most part of very inferior quality. ‘Now Lord Hood is sailed with his gallant crew, Bold sailors with ships of the line twenty-two,’