Note 435 — Chapter XL
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Walpole makes the following comment upon this paragraph:—"The French will not like the éclaircissement of the court martial by which it is clear that they were beaten and fled. The city which does not haggle, has expressed this a little grossly in their address to Keppel."—Walpole to Mann, 18 Feb., 1779. Letters vii, 179.