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  the end of August in the same year, his Lordship, anxious lest the Amazon should miss being present in the event of an action, wrote to her commander in the following terms:

The Amazon formed part of the squadron under Nelson, when that hero pursued the combined fleets of France and Spain to the West Indies ; and on the 12th Sept. 1805, she captured the Principe de la Paz Spanish privateer, mounting twenty-four 9-pounders and 4 brass swivels, with a complement of 160 men. A considerable sum in specie was found on board this prize, and her capture must have been regarded as a fortunate event by the mercantile community; Captain Parker having fallen in with her eighty leagues to the westward of Scilly, at a time when many of the homeward bound Jamaica fleet were beating about the chops of the Channel, without any armed vessel to protect them, they having separated from their convoy in a heavy gale of wind.

On the 13th March, 1806, Captain Parker assisted at the capture of Rear-Admiral Linois in the Marengo of 80 guns, accompanied by la Belle Poule frigate, as appears by the following letter from Sir John Borlase Warren to the Secretary of the Admiralty:

“I request you will communicate to their Lordships, that at 3$h$ 30' A.M. on the 13th inst., H.M.S. London, which I had stationed to windward of the squadron, having wore, and made the signal for some strange sail, I directed the squadron to be put upou the larboard tack, and as daylight appeared, made the signal for a general chase. Soon afterwards the London was observed in action with a large ship and a frigate, and continued supporting a running fire with those ships, which were endeavouring to escape, until 7$h$ 30', when the Amazon, being the advanced ship, engaged the frigate, which was attempting to bear away. The remainder of the squadron approaching fast upon the enemy, (and the action having continued from before day-light, until 9$h$ 43' A.M.) the line-of-battle ship, bearing the flag of a Rear-Admiral, struck; and at 9$h$ 53' the frigate also followed her example, when an officer came on board the Foudroyant with M. Linois’ sword, and informed me, that the ships which had surrendered