Bell wrote a letter to the newspaper, reprinted in the Naval Chronicle, that the supposedly French privateers vessels involved were HMS Phipps and Dwarf, and that the master had continued firing even after the British vessels had identified themselves.

[4] When news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 reached Britain, the Royal Navy seized all American vessels then in British ports.

Dwarf was among the Royal Navy vessels then lying at Spithead or Portsmouth and so entitled to share in the grant for the American ships Belleville, Janus, Aeos, Ganges and Leonidas seized there on 31 July 1812.

[5][a] On 11 September 1812 Dwarf and Pioneer were in pursuit of a French privateer lugger when Bermuda joined them.

Eventually the privateer struck to the boats of Dwarf and Pioneer after having suffered three men killed and 16 wounded, most severely.

[d] In January 1819 the London Gazette reported that Parliament had voted a grant to all those who had served under the command of Admiral Viscount Keith in 1812, between 1812 and 1814, and in the Gironde.

Lieutenant George Read replaced Chapman in command of Dwarf in November 1821.

[1] On 3 March 1824 Dwarf, Lieutenant Nicholas Gould, was in Kingstown Harbour, Dublin and secured to a mooring buoy.