The wind being calm, Peter sent Midshipman Jackson and eight volunteers in a boat to capture Prudente, while shooting grape and canister at her from Dominica.

On 21 May, while Dean was on shore at Roseau collecting dispatches for Admiral Lord Alexander Cochrane, a crewman attacked the master, Richard Osborne.

[3] The French immediately commissioned Dominica as the privateer Napoléon and put 73 men on board, including some artillerymen.

[3] As Wasp was sailing into Prince Rupert Bay, Dominica, she received a signal from Cygnet, anchored there, that the enemy was in sight.

In her attempt to escape she had suffered two men killed; the British had no casualties[4] In setting out to chase the French privateers, Duke of Montrose had caused Napoléon to alter her course and into the path of Wasp.

Cochrane, in his dispatch, remarked on the lack of judgment involved in a general engaging in "petty predatory Warfare", and out of uniform.

[4] Also at Roseau, Lieutenant Hamilton of the 46th, though ill, gathered a sergeant and 13 men from his regiment and set out in two merchantmen’s boats.

In his defense he produced evidence that he was an American and pointed out that he had harmed no one and had destroyed all the confidential signals before he had turned her over to the French.

The cook, Naiad Suarie, was also sentenced to hang but received a Royal Pardon on the basis that he was a negro from Martinique whom Proctor had compelled to join the mutiny with threat of force.

[8] Then on the night of 2 October Mr. King, the acting master, took Dominica's cutter and cut out two sloops, the Manette and the Dolphin, from under the shore batteries near Saint-Pierre, Martinique.

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