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Thursday, 4 June 2015

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.