Bart, Jean, famous French privateer captain, romantic stories about, 196, 206; his origin, 197; boy on board a smuggler, 197; mate on board _Cochon Gras_, 197; wanton brutality of captain, 197; witnesses application of the Judgments of Oléron, 198-200; pilots French nobles to Harwich, 200; joins the Dutch navy, 201; returns to France and commands a small privateer, 201; captures a States-General war-ship, 201; is admonished for ransoming prizes, 202; captures eight armed ships, 202; his desperate fight with a Dutchman, 202, 203; receives a gold chain from the king, 203; his continued success, 204; takes another Dutch ship after a bloody encounter, 204, 205; gallantry of the Dutch captain, 205; he is badly wounded, and his ship destroyed, 205; returns to Dunkirk after peace is declared, 205; accepts a commission in the Navy, 205; is snubbed by the aristocrats, 205; the cask of gunpowder fable, 206, 207; chiefly remembered as a privateer, 207 Barton, Andrew; a leader of men, 20; suppresses Flemish pirates, 21; sends their heads to the king, 21; his exploits under letter of marque, 21; accused of piracy, 21; two ships sent to take him, 22; his fight with Howard, 23; his gallantry and death, 23; surrender of the _Lion_, 24; the crew imprisoned, 24; released on certain conditions, 25; redress for his death refused by Henry VIII., 25; "Ballad of Sir," 25, 26, 27; the incident a true one, 27; not a knight, 27; no proof of his piracy, 28; other reference, 203 Barton, John, father of Andrew, 19 Barton, Robert, brother of Andrew, 20 _Batchelor_, 72 Bath, William, 53 Bayonne, 6 _Beginning_, 61 Bengal, Bay of, 250, 251, 258, 261 Bentham, Com. George, 318 Bergen, 206 Bermuda, 314 Betagh, William, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 86, 87, 92 Betsy, 280 _Bienfaisant_, 195 _Bienvenue_, 243 Bizerta, 233 Blaize, Mlle. Marie, who marries Robert Surcouf, 255, 261 Blanco, Cape (South America), 338 _Bloodhound_, 308 Blundell, Captain (of Liverpool Regiment), 118 _Bonaparte_, 342-353 Bordeaux, 264, 282, 285, 286, 333 Borrowdale, Captain James, 117-120 _Boscawen_, 157, 158, 160, 164, 166, 167, 176 Boston, 220 Boulogne, 266 Bousfield, Captain Daniel, 350 Boyle, Captain Thomas, commands the _Comet_, 308; runs blockade of Chesapeake, 308; encounter with Portuguese war-ship and four English ships, 308-311; captures one, 311; his success in _Comet_, 312; commands _Chasseur_, 312; successful action with English man-of-war schooner _St. Lawrence_, 312-16; discrepancies in accounts of action, 314, 315; posts "Proclamation of Blockade" at Lloyd's, 316; other reference, 325 Brazil, 52, 80 Brehat, Island of, 212, 219 Brest, 158, 162, 231 Bridgetown (Barbadoes), 343 _Brilliant_, 86