In fifteen minutes after the enemy struck, the Peacock was ready for another action, in every respect but her fore-yard, which was sent down, finished and had the fore-sail set again in forty-five minutes: such was the spirit and activity of our gallant crew. The Épervier had under her convoy an English hermaphrodite brig, a Russian and a Spanish ship, which all hauled their wind, and stood to the east-northeast. I had determined upon pursuing the former, but found that it would not answer to leave our prize in her then crippled state, and the more particularly so, as we found she had in her $120,000 in specie, which we soon transferred to this sloop. Every officer, seaman, and marine did his duty, which is the highest compliment I can pay them.
I am, respectfully,
L. Warrington.
June 28, 1814.
Johnston Blakeley Reip. Fæd. Am. nav. Wasp dux. ℞. Eheu! bis victor patria tua te luget plauditq.
CAPTAIN JOHNSTON BLAKELEY.
[Capture of the Reindeer.]
JOHNSTON BLAKELEY REIP. FÆD. AM. NAV. WASP DUX. (Johnston Blakeley, Reipublicæ Fæderatæ Americanæ navis Wasp dux: Johnston Blakeley, Captain of the American Federal Republic's vessel Wasp.) Bust of Captain Blakeley, in uniform, facing the right. FÜRST. F. (fecit).
EHEU! BIS VICTOR PATRIA TUA TE LUGET PLAUDITQ. (Plauditque) (Alas! twice conqueror, thy country laments and applauds thee.) Naval action between the United States sloop-of-war Wasp, of eighteen guns, Captain Blakeley, and the British sloop-of-war Reindeer, of eighteen guns, Captain Manners; the Wasp, to windward, is firing her port broadside. The British vessel is striking her colors. Exergue: INTER WASP NAV. AMERI. ET REINDEER NAV. ANG. DIE XXVIII JUNIUS (sic) MDCCCXIV. (Inter Wasp navem Americanam et Reindeer navem Anglicanam, die 28 Junius, 1814: Between the American vessel Wasp and the English vessel Reindeer, June 28, 1814.) On the platform, FÜRST. F. (fecit).