[419] Navy Department MSS.
[420] Captains' Letters, J. Rodgers, Sept. 1, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
[421] Letter of Sept. 1, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
[422] James, Naval History (edition 1824), vol. v. p. 283.
[423] Captains' Letters, Sept. 14, 1812. Navy Department MSS.
[424] Naval Chronicle (British), vol. xxviii. p. 426.
[425] Nov. 4, 1812.
[426] Naval Chronicle, vol. xxviii. p. 159; James, vol. v. p. 274.
[427] Sir J.B. Warren to Admiralty, Aug 24, 1812. Canadian Archives MSS. M. 389. 1, p. 147.
[428] Of the three masts of a "ship," the mizzen-mast is the one nearest the stern.