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us related:— At about half an hour after noon, having got within range, the Grasshopper opened a heavy fire of round and grape upon the brig. A running fight was maintained—about fifteen minutes of its close— until two P. M., when the latter, which was the Spanish brig-of-war San Jose, of ten 24-pounder carronades, and two long sixes, commanded by Lieutenant Don Antonio de Torres, ran on shore under Cape Negrete, and struck her colors. The greater part of her crew, which, upon leaving Carthagena, on the preceding evening, numbered 99 men, then swam on shore, and effected their escape. 4 James, 374. The Var and the belle Poule. In 1809, in the Gulf of Velona, the French ship-of-war Var, struck to the British frigate Belle Poule, but before she could be taken possession of, the officers, and a greater part of the crew escaped. The action is described as follows:— On the 15th, at daybreak, the Var was discovered moored with cables to the fortress of Velona, mounting fourt