tution, a service which it required two days to perform, there being but a single boat left between the two frigates. On the 31st she was blown up, and the Constitution put into St. Salvador. The Java carried forty-nine guns, and upwards of four hundred men she was bound to the East-Indies, and had, in addition to her own crew, upwards of one hundred supernumerary officers and seamen, for different ships on the East-India station-among whom was a master and Commander in the navy, and also Lieutenant-General Hislop and his two aids, of the British navy.

Her loss was sixty killed; and among these Captain Lambert. Of the wounded, the accounts varied from one hundred and one (which were ascertained positively) to one hundred and seventy.

On board the Constitution, nine were killed, and twenty-five wounded; among whom was the Commodore himself.

This victory was scarcely less honourable to Commodore Bainbridge, than the generosity with which be exercised the rights of a conqueror. While on board, the prisoners were treated with the most respectful attention. Immediately on their landing at St. Salvador, they were set at liberty on parole, and received every article of their baggage and particularly, a service of plate belonging to General Hislop, was carefully preserved and restored to him. These proofs of honourable courtesy were not lost on the prisoners, who expressed their gratitude in a manner as creditable to themselves as to the victors.

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The decayed state of the Constitution, and other circumstances, combining to interfere with the original plan of the cruise, Commodore Bainbridge now left the Hornet to blockade a superior

British force at St. Salvador, and returned to the United States.

On his arrival at Boston, he was received with an enthusiastic welcome by his countrymen, who felt peculiar pleasure in seeing that fortune had at last relented, and given him an opportunity of adding success to the merit. Fifty thousand dollars prize-money, as a compensation for the loss of the Java, were given by Congress to the officers and crew, and a gold medal presented to the Commodore himself. These were followed by votes of thanks and testimonials of respect, from several of the state legislatures, and also from various corporate bodies and meetings of the citizens generally.

Since his return, he has been appointed to command the Eastern station, from Portsmouth to Connecticut, within which limits he has had charge of the Constitution and two brigs; and the construction of two sloops of war and a seventy-four.

The arrangement of the differences of the United States with Great Britain did not let him remain long in the inaction of peace. Having superintended the building of the Independence, a ship of 74 guns, he had the honour of waving his flag on board the first line of battle ship belonging to the United States, that ever floated. The hostile demeanour of the government of Barbary, induced the American government, in 1815, to equip two squadrons, one under Decatur, and another under Bainbridge, for the Mediterranean, to use the lex talionis of kings, to bring them to a due sense of the estimation in which the people of the United States ought to be held. His squadron consisted of the Independence, 74, flag-ship; sloop of War, Erie, 18 guns; brig Chippewa, 18 guns; and schooner Lynx. In his voyage

to the Mediterranean, he found his ship to exceed his most sanguine expectations, and the alacrity of Commodore Decatur, in bringing the Barbary powers to a peaceful demeanour, left him on his arrival in that sea, no share of the honours he expected to reap from the object of his destination. He arrived in the harbour of Carthagena, in Spain, on the 5th of August, 1815, and on the 10th of the same month, informed the Secretary of the Navy, by letter, that peace having taken place with the Regency of Algiers, it only remained for him to obey the Secretary's instructions, by showing his squadron off Tunis and Tripoli, leaving one frigate and two smaller vessels in the gut of Gibraltar, and returning to Newport, R. Island, with the residue of his squadron, where he expected to arrive some time in the following September.

According to his instructions, he presented himself before Algiers, and exhibited his force. He then presented himself before Tripoli, where he had the mortification to find that Commodore Decatur had shorn him of his expected laurels, by a previous visit.

After running down the Barbary coast, he arrived in Malaga Roads, on the 13th of September, where he remained some days waiting to form a junction with Commodore Decatur's squadron. As soon as this was effected, he sailed for the United States and arrived at Newport (Rhode Island) on the 15th of November, 1815, leaving, under Captain Shaw, the senior officer, the frigates United States and Constellation, and the sloops of war Ontario and Erie, to enforce a due. respect among the Barbary States to the conditions of the late peace.

CAPTAIN

LEWIS WARRINGTON.

LEWIS WARRINGTON is a native of Virginia, and was partly educated at Williamsburg college. At the age of about fifteen, he being appointed a midshipman in the United States' navy, joined the frigate Chesapeake, then lying at Norfolk, in February, 1800. In this ship he cruised on the West-India station till May 1801, when she returned to the United States, and then went on board the frigate President, under Commodore Dale. This ship soon after sailed for the Mediterranean, where she remained until 1802, blockading Tripoli. The President, in May, 1802, returned to the United States, and Mr. Warrington then joined the frigate New-York, in which ship he once more sailed for the Mediterranean, and returned in June, 1803, to this country in the Chesapeake frigate. On his return, he was immediately ordered to the Vixen, then commanded by Captain Smith, late of the Franklin, seventy-four, deceased. In this vessel Warrington again sailed for the Mediterranean in August, 1803, and remained in her during the attacks on the gun-boats and batteries of Tripoli, in which the Vixen always took a part. In the month of November, 1804, he was made acting Lieutenant, and in July the next year, went on board the brig Syren, as junior Lieutenant. In March, 1806, he joined the Enterprise, as first Lieutenant, and in July, 1807, returned to the United States, after an absence of four years.

On Lieutenant Warrington's return to the United States, he was ordered to the command of a gun-boat on the Norfolk station, where Commodore Decatur commanded at that time.

He continued in the command of a gun-boat, until February, 1809, when he was again ordered to the Syren as first Lieutenant. On the return of this vessel from Europe, whither she went with despatches, he was ordered to the Essex, as her first Lieutenant, in September the same year. In this ship he cruised on the American coast, and again carried out despatches for government, returning in August, 1812. He was then ordered to the frigate Congress, as her first Lieutenant, and sailed in her on the declaration of war, in company with the squadron under Commodore Rodgers, intended to intercept the British WestIndia fleet. The escape of this fleet was peculi. arly fortunate to Great Britain, as Commodore Rodgers passed and repassed them with his squadron repeatedly; but for thirteen or fourteen days, with very little intermission, the fog was so thick that his vessels could not distinguish each other at the distance of a quarter of a mile. Lieutenant Warrington continued in the Congress till March, 1813, when he became first of the frigate United States, where he remained till his promotion to the rank of Master-commandant, soon after which he took the command of the Peacock sloop of war.

While cruising in the Peacock in latitude 27, 47, he fell in with the British brig of war Epervier with whom he engaged. The result of the action is thus communicated in his official letter to the Secretary of the Navy:

"SIR,

"At sea, April 29th, 1814.

"I have the honour to inform you that we have this morning captured, after an action of forty-two minutes, his Britannic majesty's brig