anchored under the protection of batteries but the fire from the British ships soon drove them ashore. By 2 March her crew had abandoned one of the French frigates. The other two were afloat at high water but on their beam ends at low water; a westerly swell was expected to destroy them. Stopford returned to blockade the main French force at the Ile d'Aix until 7 March when Gambier arrived to take command. From March to October Naiad was under the command of Captain George Cocks (acting). Captain Henry Hill then assumed command. On 22 March Naiad, under the command of Cocks, and in company with , captured the Josephine. Next, on 14 April, Naiad recaptured Renomée. A week later she captured Speculation. Then on 25 April she captured Maria Dorothea. On 19 July Naiad was in company with when they captured the schooner Eugenie. On 8 August three Danish vessels arrived at Leith. They were prizes to , Naiad, and . On 21 October Naiad, now under the command of Hill, recaptured the ship Minerva. Naiad was among the vessels in sight when the schooner captured the French brig Modeste. 1810–1813 On 21 January 1810, Naiad captured the French chasse maree St. Anne. A court martial was held on board Salvador del Mundo in the Hamoaze On 26 and 27 March. The accused were eight petty officers and seamen from Naiad. The charge was that they had written mutinous letters to the Admiralty, complaining of tyrannical treatment by Hill, and had tried to induce the ship's company to request that they be drafted from Naiad. Three crew members were sentenced be hanged. One received a sentence of 150 lashes; one of 100; and two of 50 lashes each around the fleet. In June Captain Wolley read a pardon to the men sentenced to death, and delivered a suitable admonition. Most of the rest of the men were also pardoned. On 23 May 1810, Naiad recaptured . In 1811 Hill left Naiad; being too senior to command a frigate, he was not employed again. Hill's replacement in July 1811 was Captain Philip Carteret. On 19 August , with Naiad in company, recaptured the Newcastle coaster , which a French privateer had captured. Under Carteret Naiad participated in an action with gunboats off Boulogne on 20 September. The French flotilla consisted of seven praams of twelve 24-pounder guns each, ten