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guns, long 8's ; the Boston was about the same size 

 as her foe, with the same number of men, and supe- 

 rior in metal about as 10 to 9. She lost 15, and the 

 Berceau 40 men. Troude (III, p. 219) gives the 

 Bcrceau 30 guns, 22 long 8's and 8 1 2-pound car- 

 ronades. If this is true she was in reality of equal 

 force with the Boston. But I question if Troude 

 really knew anything about the combatants ; he gives 

 the Boston (of the same size and build as the Cyane) 

 48 guns a number impossible for her to carry. He 

 continually makes the grossest errors; in this same 

 (the third) volume, for example, he arms a British 

 5O-gun ship with 72 cannon, giving her a broad- 

 side fifty per cent heavier than it should be (p. 

 141); and, still worse, states the ordinary comple- 

 ment of a British 32-gun frigate to be 384 men, 

 instead of about 220 (p. 417). He is by no means 

 as trustworthy as James, though less rancorous. 



The United States schooner Experiment, of 12 

 guns, long 6's, and 70 men, captured the French 

 man-of-war three-masted schooner La Diane, of 14 

 guns (either 4- or 6-pounders), with a crew of 60 

 men, and 30 passengers ; and the Enterprise, the sis- 

 ter vessel of the Experiment, captured numerous 

 strong privateers. One of them, a much heavier 

 vessel than her captor, made a most obstinate 

 fight. She was the Flambeau brig of fourteen 

 8-pounders and 100 men, of whom about half 



