Pretty to hear how she talked against Captain Du Tel, the
Frenchman, that the Prince and her husband put out the last year;
and how, says she, the Duke of York hath made him for his good
services his capbearer, yet he fired more shot into the Prince's
ship, and others of the King's ships, than of the enemy. And the
Duke of Albemarle did confirm it, and that somebody in the fight
did cry out that a little Dutchman by his ship did plague him
more than any other; upon which they were going to order him to
be sunk, when they looked and found it was Du Tell, who, as the
Duke of Albemarle says, had killed several men in several of our
ships. He said, but for his interest, which he knew he had at
Court, he had hanged him at the yard's-arm without staying for a
Court-martiall. One Colonell Howard, at the table, magnified the
Duke of Albemarle's fight in June last, as being a greater action
than ever was done by Caesar. The Duke of Albemarle did say it
had been no great action, had all his number fought, as they
should have done, to have beat; the Dutch: but of his 55 ships,
not above 25 fought.
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