THE 17T1I OF OCTOBER, 385 as before, at some distance, upon the starboard chap. XIII quarter of the Agamemnon. _1 Thus, then, with the exception of the two disabled ships, and the three * — the Britannia, the Trafalgar, and the Vengeance — which still aligned with the French, the whole English fleet was crowding in to support the Agamemnon. True, the form of the shoal, as we already know, was not such as to afford an anchoring -ground from which numbers of ships could effectively en- gage Fort Constantine ; and, against the cliff bat- teries, it had only been too well proved that ships were powerless ; but the signals and the messages of Lyons, and the position of the Agamemnon, admired from afar, had engendered with some a belief that great results might yet be achieved by supporting her attack on Fort Constantine ; "f whilst others were led to apprehend that the ship was in danger, and needed to be helped. It was under the impulse of that last idea TiieBeUu- that Lord George Paulet, coming down in the Lord Geoi- Bellerophon, seemed to take up the fight. | For the purpose of relieving the Agamemnon, he opened a violent cannonade against the Telegraph Battery ; and ' Well done, Bellerophon ! ' was the signal which flew out from the Agamemnon in
- Reduced, as we saw, to two, when the Trafalgar was dis-
abled. t See note, post, p. 387, mentioning Captain Jones's counsel. J He understood the purport of Lyons's message as delivered by Lieutenant Coles to be this, — that if Lord George did not come to his assistance the Agamemnon would be sunk. — Nate 'o 2d Edition. VOL. IV. 2 B
