British privateer captured Spanish ship la Mexicana according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haarlemse courant dated 28 February 1805
An item reported that a British privateer of Jersey
took the captured Spanish ship la
Mexicana to Jersey. The
Spanish ship with on board 87.000 piasters. 170 barrels sugar, a small quantity
of indigo and so on was underway from Vera Cruz, Mexico
towards St. Andero, Spain.