234 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



on board with one hundred and forty Eng- 

 lishmen who were prisoners he had taken. 

 He refused me my money and everything 

 I asked him. After I went on board the 

 Cartel I sat down and wrote him a letter, 

 in as polite terms as I was able, stating his 

 pledged honor and the pleasure he must 

 have in reflecting that he had turned me 

 afloat without a dollar, and he holding il- 

 legally $1500 of my own, which my ac- 

 counts showed as mine. He, on receipt of 

 this, sent me in a pitiful manner $200. 

 One thing, about a week after I was 

 taken, I recovered my spy-glass, although 

 ruined by the robbery of the principal glass. 

 In fact, the most that could be said of the 

 flying French squadron, is that they were 

 composed of as great a set of blackguards 

 and dirty fellows as ever could get on board 

 a ship. That relates to the Commodore's 

 ship and he was a disgrace to the French 

 Navy. I understood that on his losing all 

 his ships oS Nantes, because he was chased 

 by an English seventy-four, that he was 



