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t moment. Our fleets being united, we have a great superiority. They are in the channel, and I cannot think without a shudder that, from one moment to the next, our destiny will be decided. Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa, Versailles, 6 Aug., 1779, Ihr Briefwechsel, herausgegeben von A. von Arneth, 296. The united fleet rode unmolested by the British: Sir Charles Hardy either did not, or would not see them. On the sixteenth of August they appeared Chap. XI.} 1779. Aug. 18. off Plymouth, but did not attack the town. After two idle days, a strong wind drove them to the west. Montmorin had written to Vergennes: I hope the Spanish marine will fight well; but I should like it better if the English, frightened at their number, would retreat to their own harbors without fighting. Montmorin to Vergennes, 30 March, 1779. When the gale had abated, the allies rallied, returned up the channel, and the British retreated before them. No harmony existed between the French and Sp