1807. the conflict. At about 3 P. M. one of the packet's Oct. guns, a 9-pounder carronade, loaded with ‘doublegrape, canister, and 100 musket-balls, was brought to bear upon the privateer, and was discharged, with dreadful effect, at the moment the latter was making a second attempt to board. Soon after this, captain Rogers, followed by five men of his little and crew, leaped upon the schooner's decks, and, notwithstanding the apparently overwhelming odds the pri- against him, succeeded in driving the privateer'svateer. men from their quarters, and ultimately in capturing the vessel. Boards cap tures Force® and loss on each side. The Windsor-Castle mounted six long 4-pounders on and two 9-pounder carronades, with a complement of 28 men and boys; of whom she had three killed and 10 severely wounded: her main yard and mizenmast were carried away, and her rigging, fore and aft, greatly damaged. The captured schooner was the Jeune-Richard, mounting six long 6-pounders and one long 18-pounder on a traversing carriage, with a complement, at the commencement of the action, of 92 men; of whom 21 were found dead on her decks, and 33 wounded. Mode of securing ers. From the very superior number of the privateer's crew still remaining, great precaution was necessary prison- in securing the prisoners. They were accordingly ordered up from below, one by one, and were placed in their own irons successively as they came up. Any attempt at a rescue being thus effectually guarded against, the packet proceeded, with her prize, to the port of her destination; which, fortunately for the former, was not very far distant. Gallant con capt. Rogers. This achievement reflects the highest honour upon duct of every officer, man, and boy, that was on board the Windsor-Castle; and, in particular, the heroic valour of her commander, so decisive of the business, ranks above all praise. Had captain Rogers stayed to calculate the chances that were against him, the probability is, that the privateer would have ultimately succeeded in capturing the packet; whose light car ronades could have offered very little resistance at the 1807. usual distance at which vessels engage; and whose Oct. very small crew, without such a coup de main, ay, and without such a leader, could never have brought the combat to a favourable issue. pine her culo. On the 7th of October, in the evening, the british Porcu22-gun ship Porcupine, captain the honourable Henry sends Duncan, having chased a trabacculo, (one of the many boats variously rigged small vessels employed in the Me- after a diterranean) into Zupaino, a harbour of the small trabacisland of that name in the Adriatic, despatched her cutter and jollyboat, under the orders of lieutenant George Price, first of the ship, assisted by lieutenant Francis Smith, to endeavour to bring the vessel out. As the two boats were rounding the point which Lieut. forms the entrance of the harbour, a gun-boat, Price under the italian flag, opened a fire of round and fired at grape upon them. Observing this, captain Duncan gunrecalled the boats; but, as soon as it was dark, detached them again to attack the gun-vessel. by a boat. and the Having taken a guard-boat, sent by the latter to look Boards out for them, mounting a 4-pounder swivel, and man- capned with french soldiers, the boats pushed on for the tures gun-vessel; which, expecting the attack, had moored Safo. herself to the shore with four cables. In spite of this preparation, and of a heavy fire of grape and musketry opened upon them, lieutenant Price and his party gallantly boarded and captured the venetian gunboat Safo, mounting one long 24-pounder and several large swivels, and commanded by Anthonio Ghega, enseigne de vaisseau, with a crew of 50 men, most of whom leaped overboard. This very gallant enterprise was executed with so slight a loss as one sea man and one marine wounded. vessels liano. On the 27th of November lieutenant Price, in the Decutter of the Porcupine, then cruising between Ra-stroys gusa and the island of Curzola, captured two small in Zuvessels from the first-named port, under a fire of musketry from the shore, by which one of his men was wounded. On the 29th the same enterprising officer 1807. went with the boats into the harbour of Zuliano, and Nov. destroyed a number of small vessels, together with the wine that was in the magazines for the use of the french troops. A trabacculo, laden with wood, was the only vessel afloat in the harbour, and she was brought out. tures a ord nance Cap- While the boats were returning, another trabacculo vessel was seen coming down. The Porcupine gave chase; with but lieutenant Price, anticipating the wishes of his captain, pulled to-windward and captured the vessel. stores. She proved to be from Ragusa bound to Curzola, having on board stores of every description for guns and mortars, two 6 inch brass mortars, two 5 inch brass howitzers, four new 18-pounder gun-carriages, plank and every material for constructing a battery on the island to which she was bound, and a great quantity of shot and shells. Both this and the former service were performed without a casualty. Oct. On the 25th of October the british 18-gun shipsloop Herald, captain George M. Hony, cruising off Boats the fortress of Otranto in the Adriatic, observed an of He- armed trabacculo at an anchor under it. Conceiving it cap- practicable, under cover of night, to cut the vessel french out, captain Hony detached his boats, commanded by priva- lieutenant Walter Foreman; who, in the face of a rald ture a teer. heavy fire of great guns and musketry, both from the vessel and the shore, gallantly boarded and brought out the french privateer César of four 6-pounders. The crew defended her until the boats were alongside, when all except four escaped by a sternhawser. Of lieutenant Foreman's party, Mr. James Wood, the carpenter, was the only person hurt: he was wounded dangerously. On board the Herald two men were slightly wounded by shot from the fortress, and the ship's hull and rigging slightly Anne damaged. prize and her On the 24th of November, at 9 h. 30 m. A. M., the fall in island of Terriffa in sight bearing north-east by north, with 10 and the wind very light from the west-north-west, the boats. british hired armed brig Anne, of ten 12-pounder gun carronades, lieutenant James M'Kenzie, having in 1807. her company the late spanish lugger-privateer Van- Nov. sigo of seven guns, (six long 4, and one long brass 12 pounder,) with nine of the Anne's 39 men on board as a prize-crew, observed 10 spanish gun-boats rowing towards her from the shore. At 10 A. M. the headmost vessel fired a shot, and hoisted a red flag. Finding that, owing to the calm state of the weather, it was impossible to escape, lieutenant M'Kenzie shortened sail to receive his opponents. prize At 10 h. 15 m. A. M. the three headmost gun-boats closed, and commenced the action. At 10 h. 30 m., the remaining seven closing, the lugger,'after having previously hailed the Anne to say she had had three men killed, struck her colours. At 11 A. M. the Anne Her succeeded in dismasting one of the gun-boats. Find- strikes. ing that two others had struck, she now discontinued the action; but lieutenant M'Kenzie did not think it prudent to attempt to take possession, the Anne having on board 42 prisoners, with only 30 men to guard them, and being, moreover, charged with despatches. beaten At 11 h. 10 m. A. M., having got round by the assistance of her sweeps, the Anne reopened her fire upon five gun-boats, that had taken possession of the Vansigo, and were again closing on the Anne's star- Gunboard quarter, as if with an intention to board. boats Meeting with a warmer salute than they expected, and off observing that the British were prepared to repel any attempt at boarding, the Spaniards, at about 1 P. M., Swept out of gun-shot, carrying with them the Anne's prize. Notwithstanding that six of the largest of these 10 gun-boats were, for nearly an hour and a half, within pistol-shot of the Anne, their fire did not injure a man on board. The official account contains no statement, nor even supposition, relative to the force, in guns or men, of these spanish gun-boats. By a little research, however, it is discovered, that several spanish vessels of this class, captured nearly in the same quarter, and about the same time, 1807 mounted four guns each, generally two long 24 and Nov. two long 8 pounders, with a complement of from 40 to 60 men. Hence lieutenant M'Kenzie's performance, in repulsing 10 such opponents, did him and the 29 officers and men of the Anne very great credit. Web ster сар tures vessels under Estacio On the night of the 6th of November the boats of the british 12-pounder 36-gun frigate Renommée, captain sir Thomas Livingstone, bart., and 18-gun brig-sloop Grasshopper, captain Thomas Searle, cruising in company in the neighbourhood of Carthagena, were sent under the orders of lieuLieut. tenant William Webster, of the former ship, to endeavour to cut out some enemy's vessels lying at anchor under the torre de Estacio. By 4 A. M. two on the 7th a spanish brig and a french tartar, each ver mounting six guns, with a proportionate numguns of ber of men, were in the possession of the british torre de boats; but the wind was so light and the current so strong, that both vessels ran aground without the possibility of getting them off. While the boats and captured vessels were in this state, a constant fire of grape and canister was maintained upon them from the guns on the tower; whereby several of the prisoners were wounded, as well as two of the British, Mr. Thomas Bastin, purser of the Grasshopper, who was a volunteer and commanded a boat upon the occasion, and Henry Garrett, cockswain of the Renommée's pinnace, both very badly. Under these circumstances, especially as there were several women and children in the prizes, some of whom were badly wounded, lieutenant Webster was induced to abandon the vessels without setting them on fire. Grass hopper On the 11th of December, at 11 A. M., as the chases Renommée and Grasshopper were cruising on the a brig same station, the latter, being on the look-out, settees. descried a brig under way, and two settees at and two anchor, off Cape Palos, and immediately made sail to cut off the former. On observing the Grass |