...tern coast of Ireland, turned Scotland, and, cruising off Flamborough Head, descried the British merchant fleet from the Baltic under the convoy of the Serapis of forty-four guns, and the Countess of Scarborough of twenty guns. An hour after sunset, on the twenty-third of September, the Serapis, having a vast superiority in strength, engaged the Poor Richard. With marvellous hardihood Paul Jones, afte...