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Updated: August 27, 2024
"Well, Master Bob, what is your prize?" the captain asked. "It is a valuable one, sir. The polacre herself is, as I see by her papers, only two years old, and seems a fine craft. She is laden with wine, from Cadiz, to Barcelona." "Capital, Bob; we are in luck, indeed! How many prisoners have you got?" "The crew is put down at eighteen, sir; and there are the two mates."
I shall not draw upon your agent, as I expect, when I return to Naples, to receive nearly forty pounds as your share of the cotton and articles taken out of the Spanish polacre we captured. Pray let me know to whom I shall remit the balance. I sincerely hope that you had a good passage down, and have not suffered from the fatigue and anxiety you must have experienced.
"Very well, Mr. Repton; we will arrange it so." The polacre had now taken its place to leeward of the other two vessels, and they held on in that order until the frigate was within half a mile; when she fired a gun across their bows, as signal for them to heave to. The brig was now flying the British colours; her prizes the British colours, with the Spanish underneath them.
Directly the ten men got out, the boat would row across to the polacre; as there is no doubt her captain went ashore with the other. They would take her in the same way." "You ought to be made Lord High Admiral of the Fleet, Bob! That will succeed, if anything will; only we must be sure to put off again before the Spaniards do. "Well, Joe, you had better take charge of this expedition.
We shall be well beyond reach of the batteries, before they do. "Now, lads, see what guns she carries. Break open the magazine, and get powder and ball up. We must lend the captain a hand, if we can." The polacre mounted eight guns, all 14 pounders; and in a few minutes these were loaded.
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