[236] Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 293.
[237] Niles' Register, vol. vii. pp. 128, 290.
[238] Niles' Register, vol. viii. p. 61.
[239] It may not be amiss here to quote an incident similarly creditable to privateersmen, a class usually much abused, and too often with good cause. It was told by a British colonel to Colonel Winfield Scott, while a prisoner in Canada. This gentleman with his wife had been passengers from England in a transport captured near Halifax by an American privateer. Although there was no fighting, the wife, who was in a critical state of health, was dangerously affected by the attendant alarm. As soon as the circumstances were mentioned to the captain of the cruiser, he placed at the husband's disposition all that part of the vessel where their quarters were, posting a sentry to prevent intrusion and to secure all their personal effects from molestation. Scott's Autobiography, vol. i. p. 70.
[240] Afterwards Rear-Admiral Emmons.
[241] The new United States sloop of war "Frolic," named after the vessel taken by the "Wasp," was captured by the frigate "Orpheus," April 20, 1814.
[242] Ante, p. 3.
[243] Porter to the Secretary of the Navy, July 3, 1814. Niles' Register, vol. vi. p. 338.
[244] Porter's Report of this action is to be found in Niles' Register, vol. vi. pp. 338-341. Hillyar's in Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxii. pp. 168-170.
[245] The Secretary of the Navy to Blakely, March 3, 1814. Navy Department MSS.