1806. } 
_ captured Le Regulateurand Le Napoleon, 
two of the large(t French {chooner priva- 
teers, out of St. Jago, proteéted by a 
double reef of vocks. Le Regulateur 
was armed with a brafs 18-pounder, four 
6-pounders, and manned with 80 men. 
Le Napoleon was armed with one long 
g-pounder, two 12-pounder carronades, 
‘two 4-pounders, and manned with {ixty- 
fix men. The action continued, without 
jntermifficn, an hour and three quarters, 
when the furvivors of the crews aban- 
doned them, and landed in the woods, 
four only being .made prifoners, one of 
whom is mortally wounded. 
His Majefty’s foip Francbife, at anchor, off 
Campeachy, Fan. 7, 1806. 
Srr—Having received information from a 
neutral, that feveral Spanifh veflels bad very 
lately arrived in the Bay of Campeachy, I 
Jaft evening anchored the Franchife abreaft 
the town of Campeachy, and difpatched the 
fenior officer, Lieut. John Fleming, accom- 
panied by Lieut. P, J. Douglas, the third, 
Licut. Mends of the Marines, and Mefirs. 
Daly, Lamb, Chalmers, and Hamilton, 
midfhipmen, in three boats, with orders to 
fcour the Bay, and bring off fuch of the ene- 
my’s veffels as they might fall in with. An 
alarm was given from one end of the Bay to 
the other, and inftantly communicated to the 
Caftie on fhore, and two of his Catholic Ma- 
jefty’s brigs, one of 20 guns and 180 men, 
the other of 12 guns and 95 men, accompanied 
by an armed {chooner of eight, and fupported 
by feven gun-boats of two guns each, flicped 
their cables, commenced a fevere and heavy 
cannonading on the three boats, which muft 
foon have annihilated them, had not-Lieut. 
Fleming boldly dafhed on, and inftantly laid 
the neare{t brig on-board. He was fo quickly 
fupported by Lieut. Douglas, in the barge, 
and Mr, Lamb, in the pinnace, that they. 
carried her in ten minutes, notwithftanding 
the powerful refittance they met with. The 
whole of this little flotilla purfued them for 
fome diftance, keeping up a conftant firing 
of guns and mufketry, which was fo fmartly 
returned both by the brig and boats, that 
they foon retired to their former pofition, 
leaving Lieut. Fleming in quiet poflefiion of 
his prize, which proved to be the.Spanith brig 
Rapofa, pierced for fixteen,. but had. only 
twelve guns mounted, exclufive of cohorns, 
Ywivels, and numerous {mall arms, with a 
complement of ninety men, but only feven- 
ty-five actually on board. This fervice was 
performed without the lofs of a fingle man, 
and only feven fligntly wounded. But the 
enemy had an officer and four men killed, 
many jumped overboard and were drowned, 
and the commanding officer and twenty-five 
wounded, many of whom mortally. I have 
fent the whole of them on fhore with a flag 
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of truce, where the brave but unfortunate 
wounded can be better taken care of. 
C. DasnuwooD. 
Colpoys Hired Brig, Plymouth, 
March 30, 1806. 
My Lord—-I kave the honour to acquaint 
your Lordfhip, that cruizing in his Majefty’s 
Brig Colpoys, under my command, agreeable 
to the orders of Admiral Cornwallis, on the 
21{t of this month, we chaced three Spanifh 
luggers into the port of Avillas; and as we 
had a fine commanding breeze, 1 determined 
to follow them in, notwithfanding the fire 
of a fix gun battery, under which they ran- 
but which I confidered the Colpoys as come 
petent to filence. For this purpofe we pre- 
pared for anchoring with fprings; and, on 
arriving within the range of the enémy’s 
guns, and before our carronades could be 
worked with effeét, the wind died away. To 
draw the fire from the brig, and in order to 
lofe no time in effe€ting my object, the two 
boats were immediately manned with volun- 
teers, and after pufhing through a heavy fire 
of grape from the battery, and the mufketry 
of a party of Soldiers which had been fent on 
board the veffels to defend them, I fucceeded 
with fix men in the headmoft boat, in board- 
ing dnd carrying them, the enemy jumping 
over one fide as we entered on the other; 
thirteen of them fell into our hands; the fe- 
cond boat, which pulled heavy, came up afe 
terwards, and we fucceeded in bringing them 
off. WNotwithftanding the heavy fire of the 
enemy’s battery of twenty-four pounders, 
two men only received any hurt. 
(Signed) Tuomas USHER, 
Right Hon. Earl St. Vincent, &c. 
Names of the captured Veffels. 
El] Santa Buena Ventura, of two guns, 
laden with flax and fteel ; San Antonio, of 
two guns, laden with flax and fteels the San 
Real, in ballaft, and fent away with eleven 
prifoners. 
His Majefly’s foip Pallas, 
; off Chafferon, April. 
Sir—Having received information, which 
proved correct, of the fituation of the corvettes 
in the River of Bourdeaux ; a little after dark 
in the evening of the 5th, the Pallas was an- 
chored clofe to the Shoal of Cordovan; and 
it gives me fatisfaction to relate, that, about 
three o’clock, the national corvette La Tapa- 
geufe, of 14 long 12-pounders and 95 men, 
which had the guard, was boarded, carried, 
and cut out, about 20 mijes above the fhoals, 
within two heavy batteries, in fpite of all re- 
fiftance, by the Firft Lieutenant, Mr. Haf- 
well; Mr. Sutherland, the Mafter,; Mefirs. 
Perkins, Crawford, and Thomfon; together 
with the Quarter-Mafters, and fuch of the 
feamen, the Sergeant, and Marines, as were 
fortunate enough to find place in the boats. 
The tide of flood ran ftrong at day light; La 
Tapageufe made fail; a general alarm was 
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