Epervier, rating and mounting eighteen thirty two pound carronades, with one hundred and twenty-eight men, of whom eleven were killed, and fifteen wounded, according to the best information we could obtain-among the latter is her first Lieutenant, who has lost an arm, and received a severe splinter-wound in the hip. Not a man in the Peacock was killed, and only two wounded, neither dangerously. The fate of the Epervier would have been decided in much less time, but for the circumstance of our fore-yard having been totally disabled by two round shot in the starboard-quarter from her first broadside, which entirely deprived us of the use of our fore-topsails, and compelled us to keep the ship large throughout the remainder of the action.

"This, with a few topmast and topgallant backstays cut away, and a few shot through our sails, is the only injury the Peacock has sustained. Not a round shot touched our hull, and our masts and spars are as sound as ever. When the enemy struck, he had five feet water in his hold-his maintopmast was over the side-his mainboom shot away-his foremast cut nearly in two, and tottering-his fore-rigging and stays shot awayhis bowsprit badly wounded, and forty-five shot holes in his bull, twenty of which were within a foot of his water-line, above and below. By great exertions we got her in sailing order just as night came on.

"In fifteen minutes after the enemy had struck, the Peacock was ready for another action, in every respect, but the fore-yard, which was sent down, fished, and we had the foresail set again in forty-five minutes-such was the spirit and activity of our gallant crew. The Epervier had under convoy an English hermaphrodite brig, a

Russian, and a Spanish ship, which all hauled their wind and stood to the E. N. E. I had determined upon pursuing the former, but found that it would not be prudent to leave our prize in her then crippled state, and the more particularly so, as we found she had on board one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in specie, which we soon transferred to his ship. Every officer, seaman, and marine did his duty, which is the highest com. pliment I can pay them.

I am, &c.

L. WARRINGTON." Captain Warrington brought his prize safe into port, and on his return received the usual honours, which it had become customary to pay to men who conquered the enemy.

Early in the following year he sailed from NewYork in company with the Hornet, Captain Biddle, as part of a squadron under Commodore Decatur in the President, which was intended to cruise in the Indian seas. The President had sailed shortly before, after appointing a rendezvous, and soon after was fallen in with by a British squadron, to which he was finally obliged to surrender, after having beaten the Endymion, their headmost ship. The Peacock and Hornet separated in chasing, and did not meet until they arrived at Tristan D'Acunba, the appointed rendezvous. From thence they proceeded to their ultimate destination, but were again separated in consequence of falling in with a British line of battle ship, and never afterwards joined. The Hornet was obliged to throw over her guns to escape from the enemy, which rendered it necessary to return to port; but the Peacock gained the straits of Sunda, where she captured four vessels, one of them a brig of fourteen guns, in the East

India's Company's service. From this vessel Captain Warrington received satisfactory assurances of the ratification of peace between the United States and England, and in consequence made the best of his way to this country, where he arrived the beginning of November, 1814, after an absence of almost a year. The Peacock was the first ship of war belonging to the United States that ever cruised in the straits of Sunda, in no part of which there is a friendly port, where she could calculate on receiving any supplies whatever. Since Captain Warrington took command of that ship she has captured nineteen vessels, three of which were given up to prisoners, and sixteen destroyed.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

GEORGE CROGHAN

Was born at Locust Grove, near the falls of Ohio, on the 15th of November, 1791. His father Major William Croghan, left Ireland at an early period, was appointed an officer in our Revolutionary Army, and discharged his duties ast such, to the satisfaction of the Commander-inChief. His mother is the daughter of John Clark, Esq. of Virginia, a gentleman of worth and respectability, who exerted himself greatly and contributed largely towards the support of the Revolutionary contest. He had five sons; four of whom were officers in the Revolutionary army. General William Clark, who, together with Captain Lewis, explored, and is at present the Governor of Louisiana, was too young to participate

with his brothers in the achievement of that event. The military talents of George R. Clark, have obtained for him the flattering appellation of " the father of the western country."

Colonel Croghan has always been esteemed generous and humane; and, when a boy, his manly appearance and independence of sentiment and action, commanded the attention and admiration of all who knew him.

While in the state of Kentucky, his time was principally occupied by the study of his native tongue-geography--the elements of geometryand the Latin and the Greek languages. In these different branches of literature he made a respectable progress.

In the year 1808, he left Locust Grove, for the purpose of prosecuting his studies in the University of William and Mary. In this institution he graduated as A. B. on the 4th of July, 1810; and delivered on the day of his graduation, an oration on the subject of expatriation. This oration. was deemed by the audience, concise, ingenious, and argumentative, and was pronounced in a manner which did great credit to his oratorical powers. The ensuing summer he attended a course of lectures on law, and upon the termination of the course, returned to his father's, where he prosecuted the study of the same profession, and occasionally indulged himself in miscellaneous reading. Biography and history have always occupied much of his attention. He is (as his countenance indicates rather) of a serious cast of mind; but no one admires more a pleasant anecdote, or an unaffected sally of wit. With his friends he is affable and free from reserve-his manners are prepossessing; he dislikes ostentation, and was never heard to utter a word in praise of himself.

In the autumn of 1811, was fought the battle of Tippecanoe. This was the first opportunity that offered for the display of his military talents. He embraced it with avidity--he left his father's house in the character of a volunteer, and was appointed Aid to General Harrison. On the 7th of November, an attack was made on the troops under the command of that officer; the enemy were repulsed with valour; and during the engagement young Croghan evinced the greatest courage, activity and military skill. His services were acknowledged by all; and he exhibited such proofs of a genius for war, that many of his companions in arms remarked, that "he was born a soldier." A cant saying among the troops of Tippecanoe, was "to do a main business," and during the battle, he would ride from post to post, exciting the courage of the men by exclaiming, "Now my brave fellows, now is the time to do a main business." Upon the return of the troops from Tippecanoe, they were frequently met by persons coming to ascertain the fate of their children or friends. Among the number of these were a very poor and aged man, whose son was slain in the battle. Croghan having ascertained the situation of the old man and observing his inability to perform much bodily labour, regularly made his fires for him every morning, and supplied him with provisions, clothes and money. Many acts of this kind are related of him by the soldiers and officers of Tippecanoe.

After the battle of Tippecanoe, and upon the prospect of a speedy declaration of war against Great Britain, he expressed a desire to join the army. Recommendatory letters of the most flattering kind were written by Generals Harrison and Boyd to the Secretary of war, and upon the