HMS Victory wins then? Still, I hope we can agree that Yankee Frigates were far better built, newer and occasionally better gunned. Crap in a fleet action 'tho.
As matter of note: which way does the wind blow accross the pond? How rough may the seas be and at what time of year? How many marines? What variety of shot and number? Loyalty?
The above is as things were. Had we not had to give The French a bloody good spanking, things may well have been other. Damn close run debate over intervention in the US civil war etc.
You are still our most charming, if frustrating colony. Other than India.
