Barouche back seat. It has a soft collapsible half-hood folding like a bellows over the back seat and a high outside box seat in front for the driver. The entire carriage is suspended on C springs and leather straps and more recently additional elliptical springs. It is drawn by a pair of horses and was used in the 19th century for display and summer leisure driving. Designed to give a powerful impression of luxury and elegance, the structure of the carriage is heavier than it looks because of the lack of a rigid roof structure. A light barouche was a "barouchet"
HMS Phaeton (1782) Spanish corvette "Alcudia" and destroyed the armed packet "Raposo", both under the protection of a battery of five 24-pounders. "Alcudia", commanded by Don Jean Antonio Barbuto, was moored stem and stern close to the fort. Her sails had previously been taken ashore so the boats had to tow her out but soon after a strong south-west wind set in and it was necessary to set her on fire. Only four men from the two British ships were wounded. "Phaeton" then returned to Britain and was paid off in March 1802. In July 1803 Captain George Cockburn recommissioned "Phaeton" for service