Albemarle, Lord, Admiral, 200 _Alexander_, 95 _Alexandre le Grande_, 106 Algiers, 117 America Cup, The, 325 American War of Secession, 112 _Amiable Maria_, 335, 336 _Amity_ and the Spaniards, 28-32 "Ancient Mariner, The," 81 _Anglesea_, 192 Anne, Queen, 48 Anson, Admiral Lord, 98 _Antelope_, 147 _Antigallican_, 97-99, 103, 104 Antigallicans, Society of, 96-99, 103, 105 Antigua, 239 _Apollon_, 192, 195 _Ardent_, 286, 289, 290 _n._ _Arethusa_, 264 _Argo_, 275-277, 280 Arica, 83 Aristocrats, French Naval; their hatred of privateersmen, 205, 224 Armed merchant vessels, Distinction of, 12 Articles of War, 193, 198 _Augusta_, 192 _Auguste_, 226 _Aurora_, 241, 242, 244 Austrian Succession, War of the, 47 _Aventurier_, 332 Azores, The, 149, 171, 172, 317 Backwoodsmen as Marines, 301, 302 Bahamas, The, 72 Baker, Mr. Peter, 111-115 Balasore Roads, 251 Ballet, John, 44 Barbadoes, Island of, 155, 342, 343, 349, 354 Barbary, 142 Barkley, Lieutenant, 237, 238 Barney, Joshua; captured in a trader, 282; first officer of _Pomona_, 282; sails for Bordeaux, 282; fights English privateer, 283; a marvellous 3-pounder, 284; reaches Bordeaux, 285; captures an English privateer, 285; is a prisoner of war, 285; kindly treated by Admiral Byron, 286; accused of incendiarism, 286, 287; sent to England in _Yarmouth_, 287; alleged cruel treatment, 287-289; sent to Mill Prison, 289; his ruse to escape, 293, 294; his escape, 294, 295; gets off in a fishing smack, 296; brought back to England, 296; escapes to Plymouth, 297, 298; gets away to Holland, 298; arrives in America, commands _Hyder Ali_, 299; his action with _General Monk_, 299-303; conflicting accounts of action, 303; commands _General Washington_ (late _General Monk_), 304; revisits Plymouth, 304; other reference, 325 Barney, Mary (probably daughter of Joshua), 290, 291, 292