ABSTRACT
His Majesty's ship London, ninety-eight, Captain Kempthorne, with the Torbay, seventy, and Badger sloop, on the 17th of October, off the east end of St. Domingo, fell in with the Scipion, French seventy-four, and Sybille frigate. After a running fight of eight hours, the Scipion in a disabled state attempted to anchor in a small bay, called English Harbour, in that island; but in the course of the night she was totally lost — her crew were saved. In the action she had fifteen killed and forty-six wounded. The London had seventy men killed and wounded.
