Scorpion

The Scorpion returned in April, having fought an action on the 22nd with a French privateer of 18 nine and six-pounders.
“The Scorpion not being able to get away, the crew resolved to do their utmost and engaged the enemy for two and a half hours when Captain Clark and two men were killed. The command then devolved on Mr. White, the first lieutenant, who bravely fought her two hours longer, when after firing their wall pieces upwards of one hundred times, besides the great guns, and having but two rounds of powder left, she received a shot in the hull, on which all the people imagining she was sinking, cried out for quarter, but that instant some powder on the enemy’s quarter deck blowing up, set fire to their sails so that they did not hear them. This the Scorpion’s crew thought a proper time to make off and crowding on all the sail they could and all hands at the oars, they continued till the next morning, in which time they were in sight of the Frenchman several times with a man of war in chase of her and as a French privateer called the Ruby is since brought into Plymouth by the Lowestoft, there is the greatest reason to think she is the same the Scorpion met with.”
The Scorpion had nine men wounded, and several pieces of sharp iron fired from the Frenchman’s guns were found in her decks

returned from cruise to  Bristol