Device.—Bust of Captain Henley.
Legend.—Rob. Henley, Eagle præfect. Palma virtu. per æternit. Floribit.
Reverse.—A fleet engaged before a town enveloped in smoke. Several boats on the lake filled with sailors rowing.
Legend.—Uno latere percusso alterum impavide vertit.
Exergue.—Inter class. Ameri. et Brit. die 11th Sept. 1814.
CAPTAIN STEPHEN CASSIN.
Stephen Cassin, the son of Commodore John Cassin of the United States Navy, was born in Philadelphia, the 16th of February, 1783.
He entered the navy as midshipman in 1800, then in his seventeenth year. His first cruise in 1801, was in the frigate Philadelphia, Commodore Stephen Decatur, the father of the late and gallant Decatur, whose bravery in the Tripolitan war and also in the war of 1812, forms a conspicuous part in the naval history of America. After a cruise of nearly two years, during which nothing of consequence occurred, the command of the Philadelphia was transferred to Captain Samuel Barron, and after a short cruise with him, Midshipman Cassin was transferred to the schooner Nautilus of sixteen guns, ordered to form part of the squadron preparing to sail for the Mediterranean, under the command of Commodore Preble, for the purpose of protecting effectually the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Tripolitan cruisers on the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.