Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1800.] CUKAOA SURRENDERS TO THE BRITISH. 65 but without effect, the shot falling short. Captain Hillyer, therefore, and his party pulled away with accustomed alacrity, and were soon alongside the ship, before she could reload her guns; and in a few minutes, but not without a sharp struggle, they boarded and carried the Spaniard. The cheers that announced this victory was a signal for all the batteries and gun-boats to open fire upon the boats, and for the other ship to endeavour to get under their protection; but the British being alert in their movements, the other ship
Paz
soon shared the fate of her consort, and both prizes were brought off in safety, in spite of the firing of all the batteries, with the loss of only three killed and five wounded. On the 27th of October, near Malaga, the boats of the British frigate
Phaeton, 38, under Lieutenant F. Beaufort, proceeded to attack the polacre
San Josef, lying moored under the fortress of Fuengirola. As they proceeded on their course, they were unexpectedly fired at by a French privateer, which had entered the harbour unseen by them, and had placed herself in a position to flank the advance of the boats. Nevertheless, though Lieutenant Beaufort and the other officers were all wounded under her fire, the boats went forward l and in six or eight hours, notwithstanding an obstinate resistance, they boarded, carried, and brought off the polacre. On the 17th of November, off Porto Navallo, in the Morbihan, Sir Richard Strachan’s squadron discovered a French corvette endeavouring to get away to the protection of the batteries. The
Captain, 74, the frigate
Magicienne, 32, and the
Nile
lugger, immediatelv despatched boats, under Lieutenants Skottowe and Rodney, to endeavour to board and bring away the vessel, which, …
