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Privateer Le Mercure Captured by Phaeton and Anson
The Admiralty reports that on Aug 31 1798 Captain Stopford of His Majesty's ship Phaeton in concert with the Anson captured the French privateer Le Mercure, an 18 gun vessel with 132 men, recently sailed from Bordeaux on a cruise. Subsequent letters note further captures including La Decade and La Colombe, plus notes on other privateers and merchant ship seizures by British squadrons under Sir Thomas Williams Rear-Admiral Harvey and captains Poyntz Mitford Rotherham and others. The communications, dated Sept 1798, detail ongoing efforts to curb French privateering and protect British commerce.
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Phaeton
Anson
le Mercure
Bourdeaux
Stopford
Lord Bridport
Admiralty Office
Courdy
Magrishiine
Evanepean
la Colombe
Bayonne
Bownd
Strath
Aid
Citoyen Villeneau
Cayenne
Pierrepont
Thomas Williams
Evan Nepean
Spithead
Admiralty
Bengal
London
Ous
New York
Limon
le Telemaque
Ty Williams
Offce
Harvey
Prince of Wales
Fort Royal Bay
Martinique
Solebay
Poyntz
le Destin Fchovner
Lori Bridport
Brett
Richard Strachan
East Indies
Mediterranean
Sligo
Killal
Portsmouth
Coromandel
Ulysses
Calcutta
Guaraltar
Alo
Weymouth
Ireland
East India
Lisgoa
Yarmouth
Carteret
Plymouth
Cawland Bay
Queen Charlotte
Formidable
Mar
Boston
Royal Lancashire
M. Barthelemy
Gen. Pichegru
Cavennts
Barthelemy
Cavenon
Sheerness
Makeroff
Chatham