For the million she contain'd
He contended, sword in hand,
Follow'd by as brave a band
Of tars, as ever, trod a deck.
In these bloody barges, five,
Scarce a man was left alive,
And about the seas they drive;
Some were sunk, and some a wreck.
Every effort that they made
With boarding pike, or carronade,
Every effort was repaid,
Scarcely with a parallel!
Fortune, thus, upon the wave,
Crown'd the valor of the brave:—
Little lost, and much to save,
Had the prince of Neufchatel.
[210] Of the numerous vessels fitted out during the war by private parties to prey on British commerce the Prince de Neufchatel was doubtless the most successful.
THE PARADE AND SHAM-FIGHT
A Pine Forest Picture—on a Training Day.
——Invictaque bello
Dextera! non illi se quisquam impune tulisset
Obvius armato—— Virg.
The drum was beat, the flag display'd,
The soldiers met upon parade,
And all for action ready made
With loud huzza!