Charley - here's the best account I've found on the 'net, with the actual words of both Jones and Pearson click 'ere matey!.

Altogether a confused battle. It also appears that Jones had two privateers with him but not the brig Cerf.

Serapis was accidenly burnt in French Navy service in 1781. I imagine that the sloop Countess of Scarborough was sold into mercantile service, becoming again what she was originally.