"We have escaped from a French prison, and were making our way to Jersey when we saw that lugger coming after us, and should certainly have been captured had you not come up; so we thought the least we could do was to lend you a hand." "Well, gentlemen, you have certainly saved us.

Jacques Bontemps, the captain of the Annette, was an old acquaintance of mine.

He commanded a smaller craft before he got the Annette, and we have had two or three fights together.
"So it was you whom I saw in that little boat! Of course, we made out that the lugger was chasing you, though why they should be doing so we could not tell; but we thought no more about you after the fight once began, and were as astonished as the Frenchmen when you swept their bow.

I just glanced round and saw what looked like two French fishermen, and thought that you must be two of the lugger's crew who, for some reason or other, had turned the guns against their own ship.
"It will be a triumph, indeed, for us when we enter Saint Helier.
The Annette has been the terror of our privateers.

Fortunately she was generally away cruising, and many a prize has she taken into Granville.