by John Marshall

“ On the 20th Oct. following, he destroyed le Vigilante, of 14 guns and 50 men.
Early in July 1799, during a dark and foggy night, the Benjamin and Elizabeth, West Indiaman, being about twelve miles from Dungeness, was suddenly boarded on the quarter by a French lugger. Mr. White, the master, with his mate and two men, defended their vessel with all the gallantry that characterises British seamen, and had actually beaten the enemy from their deck, when they were boarded on the beam by a second lugger, the crew of which behaved in a most inhuman manner [1] . ”

“ During the late war with the United States, we find him commanding the Plantagenet 74, on the American station, where he captured a great number of coasting vessels. He has not been employed since the peace. ”