French privateer la Recipriocité captured British brig Providence transporting soldiers according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haarlemse courant dated 27 November 1806

An item dated Paris, France 22nd reported that the French privateer la Recipriocité with a crew numbering 44 men captured on the 15th off the British coast the British brig Providence despite the fact the deck of the British deck was full British soldiers. Despite outnumbered the French succeeded in capturing the brig lacking any resistance of the shocked soldiers consisting of 120 men of the 35th Regiment. Of the British soldiers were 66 disembarked at Cherbourg, France, the remaining stayed on board lacking the opportunity to disembarked caused by a frigate of the enemy nearby.