Gibraltar had been 6 or 7 miles off Shields when the French privateer brig Nayade, of 16 guns, Captain Leonard, had captured her.

[7] Enseigne de vaisseau Hamon, who had assumed command of Naïade shortly before they sailed,[8] was the senior officer of the pair.

Captain George Tobin of Princess Charlotte decided to disguise his vessel as best he could in the hope that he could lure them to approach.

She had a crew of 170 men under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Hamon, and had had one man killed before she surrendered.

She had come out from France the previous March with the Toulon squadron and was 15 days out of Martinique, provisioned for a two-month cruise.

[10] Melville served in the squadron under Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane, in Belleisle, that was sent to occupy the Danish West Indies.

The actual occupation of the Danish West Indies did not occur until 7 December,[11] after receipt of news of the second battle of Copenhagen.

[b] A notice of a head money payment states that at some point King and Melville captured the privateers Pensee and Favorite.

The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered "Melville sloop...lying at Deptford" for sale on 3 November 1808.