FOOTNOTES:
[217] Captain Allen to Navy Department. Niles' Register, vol. v. p. 46.
[218] The American official report of this action can be found in Niles' Register, vol. viii. p. 43. The British is in the Naval Chronicle, vol. xxx. p. 247. Niles also gives it, vol. v. p. 118.
[219] The prize data have been taken from the successive volumes of Niles' Register.
[220] Data concerning American vessels captured by British ships have been drawn chiefly from prize lists, or official reports, in the Naval Chronicle.
[221] Ante, p. 19.
[222] Niles' Register, vol. v. p. 175.
[223] Niles gives an abstract of the log of the "Scourge," vol. vi. p. 269.
[224] Niles' Register, vol. v. p. 90.
[225] Ibid., vol. vi. p. 69.