Aigle, of 61 men under the command of Captain Alexander Black, had thrown eight of her 14 guns overboard while trying to escape Sybille.

HMS Rota recaptured Alicia Hill, which arrived on 19 July, at Plymouth, and which had a cargo of beer and sundries.

A letter from Sierra Leone dated 27 January 1818, reported that Alicia Hill, of Liverpool, had arrived at Freetown from the leeward part of the coast.

She had encountered a brig and a schooner that had plundered her of all her outward bound cargo, her spare sails, cordage, wearing apparel, and about a ton of ivory.

She had a cargo of oil, hides, wax, elephants teeth (ivory tusks), gum copal, and camwood.

She had been lying in the Odessa Roads with a cargo of tallow and linseed, ready to sail to England, when a gale caused her to break her iron cable and drove her ashore.