Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause the foregoing resolutions to be communicated to His Excellency the Governor of Louisiana, accompanied with the request that he cause the greatest possible publicity to be given to them for the information of the whole people of Louisiana.
Approved February 15, 1815.
February 20, 1815.
Carolus Stewart navis Amer. Constitution dux. ℞. Una victoriam eripuit ratibus binis.
CAPTAIN CHARLES STEWART.
[Capture of the Cyane and of the Levant.]
CAROLUS STEWART NAVIS AMER. (Americanæ) CONSTITUTION DUX. (Charles Stewart, captain of the American vessel Constitution.) Bust of Captain Stewart, in uniform, facing the right. FÜRST. F. (fecit).
UNA VICTORIAM ERIPUIT RATIBUS BINIS. (He snatched victory from two vessels with one.) Naval action between the United States frigate Constitution, of fifty-two guns, Captain Stewart, and the British frigate Cyane, of thirty-four guns, Captain Falcon, and the sloop-of-war Levant, of twenty-one guns, Captain the Honorable George Douglas. The Constitution, to windward, is opening with her port battery on the Levant; both British vessels are returning the fire from their starboard batteries. Exergue: INTER CONSTITU. NAV. AMERI. ET LEVANT ET CYANE NAV. ANG. DIE XX. FEBR. MDCCCXV. (Inter Constitution navem Americanam et Levant et Cyane naves Anglicanas, die 20 Februarii, 1815: Between the American vessel Constitution and the English vessels Levant and Cyane, on the 20th of February, 1815.) On the platform, FÜRST. F. (fecit).