with the visible effects of the repeated broadsides of the Thames upon her hull, as she lay pumping in their view, the British officers could not but consider that the efforts of their ship, although not crowned with victory, had sent to the bottom an enemy's ship of greatly superior force.

In this hope, however, they were deceived. The name of the Uranie, immediately or soon after she arrived in port, was changed to Tortue. Our suspicion that such had been the case, we recorded in the first edition of this work. By referring to the proceedings instituted in the admiralty prize-court against the French frigate Tortue, captured by the Polyphemus in January, 1796 1797, we have since found it expressly deposed by Captain Magendie and his two senior lieutenants, that, previously to the capture of the British frigate Thames, the Tortue, represented by them as mounting 44 guns, had been named Uranie. In consequence of that, we believe, the British admiralty, on receiving the Tortue into the service, changed her name to Urania.

On the 25th of November, at 1 a.m., the British 12-pounder 32-gun frigates Penelope, Captain Bartholomew Samuel Rowley, and Iphigenia, Captain Patrick Sinclair, cruising in the bight of Leogane, island of St.-Domingo, discovered in the west quarter, and immediately chased, the French 36-gun frigate Inconstante, from Port-au-Prince, bound to Petit-Trou. At 1 h. 30 m. a.m. the Penelope, who had far outrun her consort in the chase, got close alongside of the Inconstante ; between whom and herself a smart cannonade commenced. In a short time the hammock-cloths of the Penelope on the engaged side caught fire, and 50 hammocks were destroyed before the flames could be extinguished. The action, nevertheless, still went on, and continued until the Iphigenia came ranging up on the French frigate's starboard quarter; when, at 2 a.m., the Inconstante hauled down her colours. The Penelope had one seaman killed, and one midshipman (John Allen) and six seamen wounded; the Iphigenia, no person hurt. The Inconstante, out of a crew of 300 men and boys, had her first lieutenant and six seamen killed, and her captain and 20 men (including three mortally) wounded. The prize was purchased for the navy, and registered, under her French name, as a 12-pounder 36.

On the 1st of December his Britannic majesty's packet the Antelope, Captain Curtis, being off Cumberland harbour, in Cuba, on her way to England, from Port-Royal, Jamaica, which port she had quitted three days previous, fell in with two French schooner-privateers, of formidable appearance. The packet immediately bore up for Jamaica, and was followed, under all sail, by the privateers. The Atalante, one of the two, outsailing her consort, continued the chase alone. During that and the following day, until 4 p.m., the packet rather gained upon her pursuer ; but the wind suddenly failing, the latter took to her sweeps, and soon swept up alongside of the Antelope. After the