British packet Prince of Wales recaptured from Spanish privateer de la Pas according to the Dutch newspaper Bataafsche Leeuwarder courant dated 14 September 1805
An item dated London, England 5th
reported that the British packet Prince of Wales was captured on the 13th
[August[ by the Spanish privateer Prince de la Pas but recaptured by the British 18-gun warship
Paulette two days earlier and sent to Falmouth, England. The privateer had
taken 7.000 pond
sterling out of the packet.