[154] Captains' Letters, June 21, 1813.
[155] The American official account of this affair is given in Niles' Register, vol. iv. pp. 375, 422. James' Naval History, vol. vi. pp. 236-238, gives the British story.
[156] Captains' Letters, April, 1813.
[157] Captains' Letters, May 21, 1813.
[158] Ibid.
[159] James, Naval History (edition 1837), vol. vi. p. 231.
[160] Warren's Gazette Letters, here referred to, can be found in Naval Chronicle, vol. xxx. pp. 243, 245.
[161] Croker to Warren, March 20, 1813. Admiralty Out-Letters, Records Office.
[162] Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 404.
[163] The rise of the tide is about two and a half feet.