Upon this fortunate intelligence, the Lady of the Gulf laid her course round Cape St. Antonio, and steered eastward. On the afternoon of the same day, she descried from aloft the ship already mentioned To make sure that she was the prize he was in pursuit of, Marshall slung the spy-glass across his back and went to the foremast-head. There he was able to make her out to be a merchant vessel, and as he believed, French. This doubt, however, was speedily removed by seeing the ship display the tri-colored flag.