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an opinion on this point. All agree that, whether it was the Preble or the Vincennes, she received a terrible, if not an utterly ruinous, blow. At last accounts there was one less steamer at the Passes than at the close of the action of Saturday. The Water Witch was seen to go away, probably with dispatches, and the inference from these observations is that the vessel struck by the Manassas had sunk in fifteen fathoms of water. This is Commodore Hollins's opinion, and seems a reasonable one. All accounts concur in describing the affair as one of the most gallant and spirited over heard or read of in history. It reminds one of the night attack of the English vessels upon the Spanish armada, off Calais, in 1589, when fireships were set adrift in the direction of the proud galleous and galleasses of that boastful fleet, and struck the Duke of Sidonia Medina and the whole of his command with a panic that resulted in their dispersal and the eventual defeat of the armada.