[246] Blakely to the Navy Department, Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 115.
[247] The particulars of this action are taken from the minutes of the "Wasp," enclosed in Blakely's Report, Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 115.
[248] Blakely's Report, Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 192.
[249] Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 173.
[250] James says that two of these guns were 18-pounders; but the first lieutenant of the "Peacock," who brought the prize into port, and from there wrote independently of Warrington, agrees with him in saying eighteen thirty-twos. Niles' Register, vol. vi. pp. 180, 196.
[251] In a "Synopsis of Naval Actions," between British and American vessels, contributed to the Naval Chronicle by a "British naval officer on the American station," occurs the remark relative to the defeat of the "Avon": "Miserable gunnery on our side, attributable ... above all to not drilling the men at firing at the guns; a practice the Americans never neglect." Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxiv. p. 469.
[252] For Captain Warrington's report of this cruise, see Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 155.
[253] Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxii. p. 244. See also, Ibid., pp. 211, 218.
[254] London paper, quoted in Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 175.
[255] Niles' Register, vol. vii. p. 190. Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxii. p. 244.