232 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



frigates and a corvette. 1 I was boarded and 

 ordered on board. After an examination 

 I was ordered to take my things on board 

 that they might sink my vessel. I repaired 

 on board, took my money and things in 

 part. The Lieutenant on board had stolen 

 my watch, and my mate, Edward Chap- 



1 "Capt. Mather of the ship * Active' reports that the 

 ship * Mercury' and the brigs 'Pazzo' and * Happy 

 Couple' were taken and burned by a French squadron, 

 May 3. He was boarded by the same squadron, com- 

 manded by Commodore Feretier, detained sixteen hours 

 and had put aboard of him seventeen seamen, the crews of 

 the vessels burned. May 6, latitude 35-30 saw the wreck 

 of the schooner 'Sally' from Majorca, which they had 

 scuttled May 2." Salem Gazette, June 19, 1812. 



"On the ninth of Jan. 1812 the two French 40 gun 

 frigates 'Arienne' and ' Andromaque ' and tlfll 16 gun 

 brig 'Mamelouke' under orders of Commodore Martin 

 le Feretier, sailed from France on a cruise. The French 

 frigates soon commenced their depredations on com- 

 merce, plundering and destroying not only English ves- 

 sels, but those of Spain, Portugal and the United States. 

 The 74 gun ship 'Northumberland,' Capt. Hotham,was 

 sent in pursuit and on May 22, 1812, intercepted them on 

 their return to Nantes and drove them ashore where they 

 were destroyed." JAMES, Naval History, vol. vi, p. 48. 



