to surrender his ship to the powerful force then coming up.

This being refused, the Révolutionnaire was compelled to open her fire; which the French frigate feebly returned with her stern-chase guns. After the discharge of the second broadside, and just as the Révolutionnaire, then going 10 knots an hour and fast nearing the land, had put her helm a-port, in order to run her opponent on board, the crew of the latter called out that they surrendered. The prize proved to be the French 36-gun frigate Unité, armed precisely as the Engageante, Captain (de vais.) Charles-Alexandre-Léon Durand-Linois, from Lorient bound to Rochefort. The Révolutionnaire, who appears to have mounted eight 32-pounder carronades in addition to her 38 long guns, had not a man of her 287 hurt. The Unité, on the other band, out of a complement, as sworn to ; by her officers, and stated in Captain Cole's letter, of 255, had nine men killed, and 11 wounded.

Here are two "38-gun frigates;" and yet, in broadside weight of metal, one of them is almost twice the force of the other. Even had she met the Révolutionnaire single-handed, the Unité would have engaged with scarcely a chance of success. As a man of war, too, the ship of Captain Linois was not a little incommoded by the presence of Madame le Large, wife to the governor of Rochefort, with the whole of her family and domestics. These, including the lady's son, an officer belonging to the ship, Captain Pellew, very considerately, allowed to proceed to Brest in a neutral vessel ; taking the young man's parole not to serve again during the war until exchanged. The Unité was a fine little frigate, about seven years old, and became added to the British navy as a 12-pounder 36.

On the 17th of April, in the morning, the 38-gun frigate Diamond, Captain Sir William Sidney Smith, then cruising alone, came to an anchor in the outer road of Havre, and immediately discovered, at anchor in the inner road, ready for sea, a French armed lugger, known, from the recapture of one of her prizes, to be the Vengeur, of ten 3-pounders and 45 men, an exceedingly swift-sailing privateer, that had been several times chased in vain, and whose commander was a very enterprising and experienced seaman. Conceiving it an object to stop the career of such a pest to commerce, Sir Sidney resolved to attempt cutting her out.