French privateer l’Eole took 2 British merchant ships according to the Dutch newspaper Haagsche courant dated 9 October 1799

An item reported that the French privateer l’Eole of Bordeaux captured the 16 guns Lord Dunmord of Jersey and brought her to Bordeaux and further more a British ship coming from Jamaica with a cargo of sugar, coffee and so on with an estimated value of 700.000 livres.