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Excerpt from Royal Naval Biography, or Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains and Commanders, Vol. 2
Captain Napier was shortly afterwards appointed to the Recruit brig, of 18 guns; in which vessel he fought a smart action with the Diligente French corvette, of 22 guns and 140 men, Sept. 6, 1808. On this occasion, the Recruit had her main-mast shot away, many of her carronades dismounted, one man killed, and several persons, including her commander, wounded. The extent of the loss sustained by the enemy's ship has not been made public, but we must. Suppose it to have been very heavy, to excuse her captain for having ?ed from the field of battle after he had so efiiectually crippled his antagonist. Her stern-boat, filled with small-arm men, was cutaway by the Recruit's last fire.
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