“Adelphi” captured, 87. Admiralty, Packet Service taken over by, 303. Admiralty Courts, 24. Agents, Packet, their duties, 29; malpractices of, 29–32. Altona, 160, 161, 163, 171. American ships, largely manned by British seamen, 224, 225. “Anaconda,” 243. “Antelope,” fight between, and the privateer “Atalanta,” 44–49, 305; her crew rewarded, 50, 51; capture of, 60. Anthony, Captain, 178–183, 196. “Arab” captured, 52. Armaments of the West India Packets reduced, 37; scheme for increasing them, 72. “Atalanta” privateer, 44. “Attentive,” H.M.S., 135, 142, 143. Auckland, Lord, 85, 118, 120; inquires into suspicious captures of Packets, 88–93, 97, 99, 102. Balloon postal service suggested, 118. Berlin decrees, as affecting the postal service, 157–159. Bideford, 16. Blewitt, Captain, 241, 242. “Bona,” 227, 228. Bonell, Captain, 21. Boulderson, Captain, 208. Bounties to wounded sailors, 20. Bourrienne, M. de, quoted, 148, 152, 153, 264, 265. Bridge, Captain, succeeds in landing his mails, 113–117. British subjects, seizure and imprisonment of, on French territory, 147–151; some attempts to escape, 151–155. Bull, Captain James, 72. Bull, Captain John, 203, 204, 205, 208, 209; his early misfortunes, 124–126; his reputation made, 127; capture of his ship, 128–130, 196; his fight with the “Primrose,” 274–283. Bullion, amount carried by the Packets, 10; how transported to London, 11. Bullock, Mr., and the “Prince Adolphus,” 77–79. Caddy, Captain, 243. Calais Packets, 13. Calder, Sir Robert, 210, 211. Captains, Packet, their incomes, 9; instructions issued to, in time of war, 38, 51; absenteeism among, 57–59; system of fines for absenteeism, 121. Carne, John, 152. “Carteret” captured, 86. Chamberlain, Mr., 173; his escape from Lisbon, 175. Chamberlayne, Mr. Henry, 112, 113. “Champion,” 111. “Chesterfield,” capture of, 86; beats off an American privateer, 287–290. _Chronological History of the West Indies_ (Southey), cited, 76. Cock, Captain James, 227 _et seq._, 270–274. Conference between the merchants and the Postmaster General, 73, 74. Continental System, Napoleon’s, 147 _et seq._; Post-Office attempts to evade it, 155, 156, 160–163, 172, 264–266; the Berlin decrees, 157–159; causes of its failure, 159, 160, 264, 265. Contractors, the, for the Packets, 15, 16, 18. Cooper, Captain John, 20. “Cornwallis,” her fight with the Spanish privateers, 178–181; and with the lugger, 182, 183. Corunna, Packet communication with, 14, 18. “Countess of Leicester,” 73. Court of Inquiry into captures of Packets, 99, 100. Cunninghame, Captain James, 247; his description of his fight with the “Saratoga,” 248–252; his services rewarded, 253. Curtis, Mr. Edward, 45–47. Cuxhaven, despatch of mails to, 110; mail service at, during the great frost, 111 _et seq._; the port closed, 155.