skill and courage, did great execution.

Yet the columns of the enemy continued to advance with a firmness which reflects upon them the greatest credit. Twice the column which approached me on my left was repulsed, by the troops of General Carroll, those of General Coffee, and a division of Kentucky militia, and twice they formed again and renewed the assault.

At length, however, cut to pieces, they fled in confusion from the field, leaving it covered with their dead and wounded. The loss which the enemy sustained on this occasion cannot be estimated at less than 1500 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. Upwards of 300 have already been delivered over for burial; and my men are still engaged in picking them up within my lines and carrying them to the point where the enemy are to receive them. This is in addition to the dead and wounded whom the enemy have been enabled to carry from the field during and since the action, and to those who have since died of the wounds they received. We have taken about 500 prisoners, upwards of 300 of whom are wounded, and a great part of them mortally. My loss has not exceeded, and I believe has not amounted to, 10 killed and as many wounded.

Camp, 4 miles below New Orleans, Jan. 19, 1815,

Last night, at twelve o'clock, the enemy precipitately decamped and returned to his boats, leaving behind, under medical attendance, eighty of his wounded, including two officers, fourteen pieces of his heavy artillery, and a quantity of shot, having destroyed much of his powder. Such was the situation of the ground which he

abandoned, and of that through which he retired, protected by canals, redoubts, entrenchments, and swamps on his right, and the river on his left, that I could not, without encountering risk, which true policy did not seem to require, or to authorise, attempt to annoy him much in his retreat.

His loss on this ground, since the debarkation of his troops, as stated by all the last prisoners and deserters, and as confirmed by many additional circumstances, must have exceeded 4000; and was greater in the action of the 8th than was estimated, from the most correct data then in his possession, by the Inspector General, whose report has been forwarded to you. We succeeded, on the 8th, in getting from the enemy about 1000 stand of arms, of various descriptions.

Since the action of the 8th, the enemy have been allowed very little respite-my artillery from both sides of the river being constantly employed till the night, and indeed, until the hour of their retreat, in annoying them. No doubt they thought it quite time to quit a position in which so little rest could be found.

DISASTROUS RENCOUNTER

BETWEEN THE PEACOCK AND NAUTILUS.

Ως σ ̓ ἔβαλον Τρῶες, κατὰ δ ̓ ὅρκια πιστά πάτησαν.

ILIAD iv. v. 157.

thus have the Trojans stamp'd

Their covenant under foot, and wounded thee!

COWPER.

Anjier is an English military establishment, under the superintendance of a master-attendant, situated on a bay of the island of Java, 78 miles west of Batavia, at the entrance of the Straits of Sunda. The houses and fort have a picturesque appearance from the sea, while every part of the surrounding country is bounded by ghauts, where, among other trees, grows the Bohun Upas, and where the lion and tiger lie basking under a vertical sun. On the beach is seen a motley assemblage of Europeans, Chinese, Hindoos, and Malays, transporting their barrels and bales to the water-side, to ship off to the ketches, the grabs, the junks, and endless variety of country craft lying at anchor in the roads.*

The author of this page was in early life a maritime rover in the oriental ocean. He embarked for India with the brother-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, a youth qui neque fecit, nec sensit, quod non erat laudandum (I quote Paterculus from memory) whom he studied with at school, and accompanied home every vacation. There is a pleasure in having the remotest claim to the notice of a man whose writings are beautiful as nature, lovely as virtue, and valuable as truth.

On the afternoon of the 30th of June, 1815, as the Peacock, commanded by Captain Warrington, was pursuing her track like a sea-bird through the Straits of Sunda,* on coming abreast of Anjier she hoisted English colours. It happened that the East India Company's cruizer Nautilus, Lieutenant Boyce, was standing towards the Strait's mouth, in charge of public dispatches from Batavia to Bengal, and, believing the Peacock to be an English ship of war, the lieutenant lowered down his gig, and sent her under charge of Mr. Bartlett, the master, to learn the news from Europe; Cornet White, a passenger on board the Nautilus, accompanied him: Mr. Macgregor, the master-attendant at Anjier, yielding to the same delusion, pushed off eagerly in the fort-boat on the same errand. The gig reached the man of war first; and scarcely had Mr. Bartlett got up the side, mounted the gangway, and raised his hat, when Captain Warrington, who stood on the weather-side of the quarter-deck, dressed in his em

+ Captain Warrington had been sent into the Indian sea to co-operate with Decatur, from whose bold efforts of maritime skill high expectations were formed. There can be no doubt but that in the President frigate, with the Peacock and Hornet as auxiliaries, he would have been a more redoubtable enemy to the China fleet than Linois with three line of battle ships; and that Dance would have looked like the man who drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night. Decatur would have dogged the fleet from Java Head to the Chops of the Channel; and, in every gale of wind which broke the bond of their union, have cut off and sunk, destroyed, or sent into the United States, some of the straggling ducks. This is only reasoning from analogy. It is notorious that Blakeley, no less prompt than intrepid, cut out a merchantman from a fleet under convoy of the Armada, 74, the night before he engaged the Reindeer; and that the Armada was kept perpetually busy either in collecting her convoy under her wings, or firing at the yankey.

broidered uniform, conversing with his officers, called to the Serjeant of Marines, “Pass the boat's crew below!" an injunction which was instantly obeyed; for the lascars who composed her rowers were hauled in by the Ameri cans through the ports, and their officers conducted down the hatchway. The reception which Mr. Macgregor experienced, as he entered the ship from his boat, was not more courteous: he was informed by Captain Warrington's lieutenant that he was a prisoner of war. He began immediately to remonstrate with the lieutenant, saying that peace had been ratified between Great Britain and the United States; that he had a copy of Mr. Madison's proclamation in his pocket, and that he hoped the end and benefit of it would not be disappointed by any act of vio lence or bloodshed. He was interrupted in his communication by Captain Warrington, who sternly cried, conduct him below! On being hurried down the hatchway into the gun-room, he encountered the purser, who was superintending the cartridges which the gunner had now begun to send up from the magazine. The purser was a jocose Bostonian, somewhat advanced in years, of lofty stature, and extraordinary corpulence, who enjoyed such vigour of body, and buoyancy of spirits, that his cheek exhibited the ruddy suffusion of a second youth. As a relief from his sufferings in a broiling climate, he had thrown off his coat, and put on a light white jacket, and, as he paced the gun-room floor, endeavoured to produce an artificial circulation of the air by waving his hand before his faceyet the big drops coursed down his cheeks like tears, and his uncovered head supported the illusion of his being under the influence of a shower-bath. It was a common