ABSTRACT

December the 12th, Captain Inglis, in his Majesty's ship Salisbury, of fifty guns, off Porto de Sail, in the Bay of Honduras, captured the San Carlos, of fifty guns, and 397 men, a private Spanish ship of war, from Cadiz, bound to Omoa. The action began at half past six, and continued till half past eight, when the San Carlos lost her main-mast, and surrendered: she had a cargo of ordnance stores.