The list of privateers that hung about Great Britain and Ireland might be made long if the number were necessary to the story, but the character of the blockade was proved by other evidence than that of numbers. A few details were enough to satisfy even the English. The “Siren,” a schooner of less than two hundred tons, with seven guns and seventy-five men,[301] had an engagement with her Majesty’s cutter “Landrail” of four guns, as the cutter was crossing the British Channel with despatches. The “Landrail” was captured after a somewhat sharp action, and sent to America, but was recaptured on the way. The victory was not remarkable, but the place of capture was very significant; and it happened July 12, only a fortnight after Blakeley captured the “Reindeer” farther westward. The “Siren” was but one of many privateers in those waters. The “Governor Tompkins” burned fourteen vessels successively in the British Channel. The “Young Wasp” of Philadelphia cruised nearly six months about the coasts of England and Spain and in the course of West India commerce. The “Harpy” of Baltimore, another large vessel of some three hundred and fifty tons and fourteen guns, cruised nearly three months off the coast of Ireland, in the British Channel and in the Bay of Biscay, and returned safely to Boston filled with plunder, including, as was said, upward of £100,000 in British Treasury notes and bills of exchange. The “Leo,” a Boston schooner of about two hundred tons, was famous for its exploits in these waters, but was captured at last by the frigate “Tiber” after a chase of eleven hours. The “Mammoth,” a Baltimore schooner of nearly four hundred tons, was seventeen days off Cape Clear, the southernmost point of Ireland. The most mischievous of all was the “Prince of Neufchatel” of New York, which chose the Irish Channel as its favorite haunt, where during the summer it made ordinary coasting traffic impossible. The most impudent was probably the “Chasseur,” commanded by Captain Boyle, who cruised three months, and amused himself, when off the British coast, by sending to be posted at Lloyd’s a “Proclamation of Blockade” of “all the ports, harbors, bays, creeks, rivers, inlets, outlets, islands, and sea-coast of the United Kingdom.” The jest at that moment was too sardonic to amuse the British public.