"On the 1st inst. about 80 leagues N.N.W. of Cape St. Vincent's, we were taken by an American privateer called the Sturdy Beggar, which took two bales of silk out of us and some other trifles, and ordered us for Bourdeaux, but on our way thither, off Cape Ortegal, on the 9th, we fell in with the Resolution of 74 guns, which retook us. Our cargo was computed to be worth near 80,000l.”