He will be glad if you will give me some particulars of the action; and you will, when you can spare time afterwards, go up and give him a full report of it." "I owe the capture entirely to these two gentlemen, who are officers in your army.

They had escaped from a French prison, and were making for this port when I first saw them this morning, with the Annette in hot chase after them.

It did not strike me that it was her, for it was only last night that the news came in that she had been seen, yesterday, sailing towards Granville; and I thought that she was the Lionne, which is a boat our own size.

I came up before she had overhauled the boat and, directly the fight began, I could see the mistake I had made.

But as she was a good deal faster than we were, it was of no use running.