Napoleonic-era French gunboat in Birmingham

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Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham (1885), p192 says:

Sir Rowland Hill, speaking of his childhood's days, said he could recollect once during the war with Napoleon that a French gunboat was dragged across the country, and shown in Birmingham at a small charge. He had never then seen any vessel bigger than a coal barge, but this was a real ship, with real anchor and real ship guns.

Do we know any more about this incident, or the ship involved? Presumably, it was also exhibited elsewhere - but where?