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 engaged the Norge, a cutter-rigged praam, mounting two long 32-pounders and six 18-pr. carronades, with a complement of 80 men, supported by several other armed vessels, near Fladstrand; and next day drove a sloop on shore near the Scaw. In the course of the same month, she was sent to Fladstrand with a flag of truce, and during her stay there lay close to the Norge, the commander of which vessel, a captain in the Danish navy, observed that now he had seen her actual force he should know how to treat her in future In consequence of this remark, Lieutenant Morgan obtained permission to exchange two of his carronades for long 6-pounders.

On the 11th Aug. following, the boats of the Barbara, containing 26 men, under the command of the second-master, a midshipman, and Lieutenant Morgan’s clerk, were sent to destroy the signal station, and a 2-gun battery, on the Great Grasholm island, which service was executed in the most admirable style, and without any loss, the enemy offering no resistance. On the same day the Barbara had her foremast shot away, her other spars, hull, sails, and rigging much cut up, and one man severely wounded, in action with the Norge and nine gun-boats. Thus disabled, and with three feet water in her hold, she put into Hawk roads, Gottenburg, and, whilst undergoing the process of heaving down, made so much water that the relieving tackles gave way, when she upset and sunk, but was weighed and again at sea in a very few days after. On revisiting Fladstrand, with a second flag of truce. Lieutenant Morgan was informed by a Danish officer, one of his late opponents, that the loss sustained by the Norge, in her last rencontre with the Barbara, amounted to three men killed and six wounded.

On the 6th Oct. in the same year, at sun-set, Lieutenant Richard Banks, commanding the Forward gun-brig, then in company with the Barbara, received information that a small Danish armed vessel was standing towards an anchorage much frequented by English merchantmen, about four miles to the southward of Wingo Sound, to which he immediately proceeded in a 5-oared boat, having with him a Swedish pilot, and accompanied by Lieutenant Morgan, in the schooner’s