ABSTRACT
Early in the nineteenth century, in an autumnal month, a corvette, a light built Spanish vessel, passed the Bar of Dublin, and, with all her canvass crowded, rode gallantly into the bay, a er having weathered, for a period of ve days, one of those tremendous gales, which occasionally agitate the Irish seas. A southern port of Ireland had been her original destination. Stress of weather had driven her up the Channel;9 and the injury she had received in / her unequal contest with the elements rendered it necessary that she should undergo repair, before she proceeded on her coasting voyage. On her stern she bore the name of ‘Il Librador;’*10 and, though now unarmed, and the property of a private individual, she had evidently been a sloop of war in some foreign service.
