[3] On 21 August Sir Richard Bickerton, commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, ordered Harper to patrol off the coast.

The next evening Saracen was some 7 or 8 miles (11 or 13 km) off Beachy Head when Harper observed two large luggers chasing three well-laden British merchant vessels.

After a short chase and some combat, Saracen succeeded in capturing the French privateer Coureur (or Courier), of Calais, by coming alongside and boarding her.

Coureur was a new vessel, and the two privateers were only eight hours out of Dieppe and had not captured anything when Saracen had appeared on the scene.

During a dark and stormy night, Harper took her boats and a landing party of some 40 seamen and marines to capture Zupano.

The French retreated to a fortified castle on a hill, which the British then bombarded with a 12-pounder carronade they had brought from one of the ships.

In his absence, Weazel's men established a battery of three brass guns on a point overlooking the castle.

After the loss of Zupano, the French general at Ragusa withdrew his men from Calamotta, the third of the Elaphiti Islands.

To augment his forces after dark Harper would take the marines he had on Mezzo, leaving only a lame man behind to give the impression of activity, and would then return them before dawn.

One night in September, Harper received intelligence that the French were moving some 50 bullocks by road from Ragusa under a weak escort.

He took 20 men, all that he had available, landed them, drove off the escort, gathered the bullocks, put them on some fishing boats, and brought them to Saracen.

On the way he captured four gunboats, each armed with a 24-pounder gun (two also had an additional 12-pounder carronade in their sterns), after their local crews mutinied against the French.

[a][b] On 16 October 1813, a party from Bacchante and Saracen, together with the Royal Corsican Rangers, captured Forts Epagnole and Castel Nuova.

[3][5] In November Harper proceeded to move an 18-poudner gun to the summit of Mount Theodore, overlooking Cattaro, finally succeeding on 23 December.

Bacchante returned and the British were able to establish four batteries with which to bombard Fort St John at Cattaro.

The British were preparing for an assault on 3 January when General Baron Gauthier, the French commander, offered to capitulate.

[5] The fall of Ragusa left the allies in command of Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria, Frioul, and all the islands in the Adriatic.

She then sailed for the coast of France to participate in the effort to intercept Napoleon after his defeat at the battle of Waterloo.

[1] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Saracen brig, of 387 tons", lying at Chatham, for sale on 22 July 1819.

[1] Saracen first appeared in Lloyd's Register in the supplemental pages for 1819 and was listed as sailing between London and New South Wales.

[2] In 1822 Saracen stopped at Uraga, Kanagawa, Japan, in where she received water, food, and firewood.

[2] Saracen sailed on her second whaling voyage on 18 July 1823 with Dunn, master, and destination New Zealand and Timor.

[2] A year later, while on her way to London, Saracen was blown out of the Cape of Good Hope on 6 March 1826 during a strong gale and lost anchors.