Deake, Captain, 59, 98. Deane, Captain, 168, 169. Decree ordering seizure of British subjects on French territory, 147–151. Demerara, privateers repulsed from, 237–239. Denmark, English mails seized in, 165–168. “Despatch” Packet illegally seized, 39, 40. Dominica, French expedition against, 134, 135; its repulse by Captain Dyneley, 136–143. “Dominica,” H.M. sloop, handed over to the French by her crew, 133. “Dryad,” 273. “Duke of Clarence” captured, 89. “Duke of Marlborough,” 124, 127, 208; capture of, 128–130; fights with privateers, 184–186, 202–205; her fight with H.M. brig “Primrose,” 274–283. “Duke of Montrose,” 135 _et seq._; her fight with a privateer, 240, 241; how captured and regained, 297. “Duke of York” captured, 83; surrender of, 98, 99; result of the Inspector’s inquiry, 100–102. Dundas, Mr. Henry, 91. Dyneley, Captain, 135; repulses the French expedition against Dominica, 136–143; his last fight, 144–146. “Earl Gower,” how captured, 98. “Earl of Leicester” piracy case, 26–28. East, Mr., 149, 150. Elphinstone, Captain, 242. Espriella, Don Manuel, his impressions of a Falmouth inn, 7. “Eurotas,” 271, 273. “Expedition” captured, 53. “Express,” 243, 244. Falmouth, before its selection as the Packet headquarters, 3; growth and prosperity of, 4, 5; effect of the railway on, 12; why selected for a Packet station, 14–16; natural advantages of the port and harbour, 16, 17; a nest of smugglers, 29; the mutiny at, 197 _et seq._; magistrates in sympathy with the mutineers, 211, 214, 215; removal of the Packets from, 216, 217; and their return, 220. Fares paid by passengers, 10. Flynn, Captain, 151. Fowey as a Packet station, 219. Freeling, Mr. Francis, 85, 93, 112, 120, 246, 253. Frost, the great, of 1798, 110 _et seq._ Furze, Captain, 267–270, 287–290. Giltinan, James, 177. Gothenburg as a Packet station, 155, 171. Gower, Lord, 85. “Grantham,” 125; capture and re-capture of, 72. Gwin, Daniel, 18. “Halifax” captured, 87. Hamburg, mails smuggled into, 155; occupied by the French, 157; Mr. Nicholas’ agreement with the P.O. officials at, 162, 163. Hammond, Captain, and the Danish grain-ships, 26–28. Hartney, Captain, 239. Heligoland as a mail depôt, 111, 155; capture of, 172. Helvoetsluis, the port closed, 109; seizure and imprisonment of British subjects at, 148–151. “Hinchinbrooke” wrecked, 245. “Hinchinbrooke” beats off an American privateer, 283–287. Holland, closing of her ports, 109. Holyhead Packets, 14, 41, 106, 107. Husum as a Packet station, 155, 156. Inspector of Packets, and the suspicious captures, 92, 93; his inquiries into the private trading abuses, 97, 100–102. James, Mr., 184–186, 202, 203, 283–287. “Jane,” capture and re-capture of, 89. Jones, Captain John, 21. Kempthorne, Captain, 44, 60, 61.