with a ‘Turkish -vessel, 
1823.] 
away. for Rhodes, as they must pass 
there. 
June 18. At day-light we saw’ five 
sail close in with the land, which we, 
went in after, thinking they were good: 
prizes; but, to our great misfortune, 
found them to be Turkish men- -of-war, 
of fifty guns, of forty-four guns, and 
three of sixteen guns each. They gave 
us chace, and at seven ‘the frigate 
came alongside. The captain wanted 
to engage, ‘but the lieutenant would 
not until the’others should be farther 
astern of us. In the mean time, the 
frigate kept continually firing at us. 
At half past ten we hauled down the 
Freneh colours, and engaged her; and 
shot away ber fore-topsail yard. She 
then tried to go down to the others; 
but, before she had got from under 
our guns, we had set her on fire. By 
this time the others got up with us, 
and we filled the train in the magazine, 
ready to blow the ship up, if any of 
them boarded. We made sure of be- 
ing taken; but,as God would have it, 
we got so close to the fifty-gun ship’s 
stern, that our larboard spritsail yard- 
arm touched her stern, and we lired as 
fast as we could, until we silenced the 
guns; and, taking to the small arms, we 
killed most of their men,—for they 
could not make any sail to get away. 
The frigate had now got “her fore- 
topsail yard up, and came up tous, as 
she sailed better than we did: so we 
were obliged to engage her oace 
more; but we soon disabled her, by 
carrying away her fore-topmast half 
down. We then had the small ones 
to keep off; but, as soon as they saw 
that the two larze ships were disabled, 
they made sail from us, which we were 
very glad of, as it was half past eleven 
at night, and we had seventeen killed 
and nine wounded; and all our sails 
and rigging torn to picces,—our force 
being only twenty-two guns. If there 
had bcon another of the same force 
with us, we should have taken the 
whole of them. Having got clear of 
them, we began to wish ourselves 
clear of ihe cruise, and ship. 
June 19.—We steered for Sarpanta, 
to get repaired.’ 
June 20.—The captain went  on- 
shore, and got plenty of people to help- 
us; and we were ready for sea by) the 
ath, 
June 24,—Mt four o’clock in, the 
morning sailed for ‘the island’ of 
Cyprus, and in the afternoon fell in 
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honey, oil, and cotton; fron which we» 
took alk the —— ‘and. sent: her to 
Leghorn. 
June 25.—We gut the prisoners ~ 
death; and in. the afternoon took « 
large Tu rkish ship, loaded with eotton, 
hemp, and three jars of honey, besides 
ready money. » We put thirteen hands 
on-board her, but took the prisoners 
out, and sent the prize to Leghorn. 
June 26.—At ten o'clock we put the 
prisoners to death. 
June 27.—The captain ordered that 
the prisoners in future should be put 
to- death in the head, as there was 
such dirty decks with them always. 
In the afternoon we took a small ves- 
sel, laden with nuts; which we. sunk, 
people and all together. We ther 
steered for Jaffa to get water, for we 
had very little on-board. 
June 28.—We got. in, and sent the 
tender and long-boat, withsixty armed 
men, on shore, to fill water; but we 
had only twelve butts filled, when we 
saw above 2000 Turks and. Moors 
coming down on horseback towards 
us; and we were obliged to haul the 
tender close in shore to cover our men. 
Before we got it all on-board, we had 
three men killed ; but hew many of the 
Turks we cou'd nottell, as we could see 
a great number of their horses fall by 
the shot from our tender.’ As soon as 
we got the water stowed, and the ship 
clear, we made weigh, and steered for 
Alexandria. 
June 29.—We saw five sail a-head 
to which we gave chace, and soon 
came up with them. We took two; 
the other three got on-shore. One of 
them was a goud prize, loaded with 
cotton and silk, besides a great deal 
of money ; the other was loaded with 
rice and coffee; but, as we, could not 
spare any hands to send them to Leg- 
horn or Malta; we took the*best of 
every thing out of them, and sunk 
them,—people and all together. In the 
afternoon we spoke a Ragusa polacea, 
which told us there were seyen sail 
of Algerine xebecs cruizing in the 
Arches. 
Junc 20.~-We sailed for the Nile, as 
it was the best way'to keep from the 
Algerines, and a good place to cruize 
in, At night we took a small vessel, 
laden with wine and sonp ; and, taking 
some of the wine ‘out'of ber, sunk the 
vessel and people together. ! 
July 1.—At the Nile we went in, 
and made three large ships and two 
small onés our prize, without the least 
defence ; 
