The image shows the contents of letter from Captain Ogilvy, of His Majesty's Ship Magicienne, giving his account of the capture of the Huron French corvette, from the Isle of France, bound to Bordeaux on January 20th, 1801. She was pierced for twenty guns, had eighteen mounted, but threw them all overboard except four during the chase. Her cargo consisted of ivory, cochineal, indigo, tea, sugar, pepper, cinnamon and ebony. This is one of many articles relating to Naval History, and the capture of foreign vessels that can be found in The Portsmouth Telegraph, or Naval and Military Journal 1801 Volume 1 CD-ROM, please note that the image shown is of lower resolution and quality than the image on the CD-ROM.
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