by John Marshall

“ On the 25th Dec. in the same year, l’Eole, a polacre-rigged privateer, pierced for 20 guns, but mounting only 14, with a complement of 140 men, surrendered to her after a gallant resistance of one hour and thirty minutes, during which the enemy sustained a loss of 5 men killed and 9 wounded; the Weazle only one man slain and one wounded.
Between this period and June, 1810, Captain Prescott waa employed cruizing off Sardinia, on which station he made seventeen prizes and recaptures: among the former was l’Ippolite, French schooner privateer, of 5 guns and 78 men. ”

“ During the last four years of the French revolutionary war, we find him successively serving in the Queen Charlotte a first rate, Penelope frigate, and Foudroyant of 80 guns.
In the Penelope, Mr. Prescott assisted at the capture of le Guillaume Tell, a French 80-gun ship, Mar. 31, 1800 [2] . The Foudroyant bore the flag of Lord Keith, by whom he was promoted into the Vincejo brig, on the coast of Egypt, in 1802. ”

“ I. Part I. line 5 from the bottom – for reputed author read author. ↑ See Vol. I. Part II. p. 643 et seq. ↑ See Vol. I. Part I. p. 289. ↑ See Captain Henry Whitmarsh Pearse, C.B. ↑ See Supplement, Part I. pp. 190–192. ”