France and England were then at peace, and it may be that the French remembered the way in which we had suppressed the Citizen Genet.

At any rate, they refused to let Coggeshall take his ship out of the harbor with more than one gun--a Long Tom--aboard.

Nothing daunted, he started out with this armament, to which some twenty muskets were added, on a privateering cruise in the channel, which was full of British cruisers.

Even the Long Tom proved untrustworthy, so recourse was finally had to carrying the enemy by boarding; and in this way four valuable prizes were taken, of which three were sent home with prize crews.

But a gale carried away the "Leo's" foremast, and she fell a prey to an English frigate which happened along untimely.
The "Mammoth" was emphatically a lucky ship.