found after the battle in a state of utter consternation. The bodies of several other Indians were said to have been found the next day on the shores of the lake, supposed to have been slain during the engagement and thrown overboard.

The loss of the British in killed and wounded, was estimated at 160, and that of the Americans at 123. On board the British fleet, the Captain and first Lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte were killed. Commodore Barclay, of the Lady Prevost, was severely wounded and lost his handHe, however, did himself honour by the brave and obstinate resistance which he made. He was a fine looking officer, then about thirty-six years of age. He has seen much service, having been desperately wounded in the battle of Trafalgar, and afterwards losing an arm in another engagement with the French. In the present battle he was twice carried below, on account of his wounds, and had the misfortune to have his remaining hand shot away. While below, the second time, his officer came down and told him that they must strike, as the ships were cut to pieces, and the men could not be kept to their guns. Commodore Barclay was then carried on deck, and after taking a view of their situation, and finding all chance of success was over, reluctantly gave orders to strike.

In the course of the action, Perry noticed a prime and favourite sailor, who was Captain of one of the guns, very much embarrassed with his piece, which, in consequence of the firelock being broken, was rather unmanageable and rebounded. Perry approached him, and in an encouraging mauner, asked him "what is the matter."

The

honest tar, who had been showing signs of infinite vexation, turned round, and, as if speaking of a

mistress, exclaimed reproachfully, "sir, my gun behaves shamefully!" He then levelled, and having taken aim, raised up and squared himself, when suddenly a cannon ball struck him in the breast, passed through him and he fell dead without a groan!

Lieutenant Yarnall, of the Lawrence, behaved throughout with great bravery and coolness. He was dressed as a common seaman, a red bandana handkerchief was tied round his neck, and another round his head, to stanch two wounds which he had received. From these, the blood trickled down his face, and a splinter having passed through his nose, it had swelled to a hideous magnitude. In this frightful plight, looking like the very genius of carnage and ill-luck, he came up to Perry, in the hottest and bloodiest of the fight, and announced to him that all the officers of his division were killed. Perry ordered others in their place. Shortly after, Yarnall returned with a repetition of the dismal tidings that all the officers were shot down! Then sir, said Perry, you must endeavour to make out by yourself, I have no more to furnish you with."

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Soon after the victory on lake Erie, the President of the United States appointed Oliver H. Perry to the rank of Captain in the Navy.

The Commodore was presented with the freedom of the cities of New-York and Albany.

The thanks of Congress were voted to the Com-. modore, his officers, seamen and marines; and medals were presented to him and his officers.

The thanks of the Senate of Pennsylvania, with medals, also were voted to the Commodore, and those brave men who served under him.

Rejoicings, illuminations, and bon-fires, were exhibited through all parts of the United States.

The capture of the British fleet removed the chief object to the capture of Malden; and General Harrison made dispositions to avail himself of it. Boats were collected, and troops assem bled. Governor Shelby arrived on the 17th of September, at the mouth of Portage river, with about 4000 volunteers. General M'Arthur joined the army in three days after, with his brigade from fort Meigs. On the 21st, the embarkation of troops commenced. Put-in-bay Island was the place of rendezvous. Commodore Perry's fleet, including the captured vessels, were engaged in protecting and assisting the men and boats, as well as in conveying stores, baggage, &c. The army again embarked on board the fleet and boats at Put-in-bay, on the 25th, and arrived the same evening at the Eastern Sister, a small island about sixteen miles from Malden. Here the expedition was detained some time by bad weather, during which time, a reconnoisance of the enemy's coast was made by General Harrison, and Commodore Perry; a despatch was also sent to apprize Colonel Johnson of their movements, who, with his mounted rangers, was to co-operate in the reduction of Malden.

On the 27th, the army embarked at the Eastern Sister, and landed near Malden, in excellent order. The enemy having previously evacuated the town, it was entered by the Americans without opposition.

After the capture of Malden, Perry acted as a volunteer-aid to General Harrison, in his pursuit of the British, on the river Thames, and was present at the battle of Moravian town, on the fifth of October. When the British presented a formidable force for the invasion of Maryland and Virginia, and proceeded to the conflagration of

the public works, at the city of Washington, he commanded a body of seamen and marines on the Potomac. He was, afterwards, appointed to command the Java frigate, built at Baltimore; and after the conclusion of peace with Great Britain, sailed in 1815, as one of the squadron under Commodore Decatur, sent to the Mediterranean to settle affairs between the United States and Algiers. While in that sea, some difference arose between him and Mr. Heath, commandant of Marines on board his ship. This led to a courtmartial, the result of which, subjected both these officers to a private reprimand from Commodore Chauncey. Captain Heath not being appeased, laid his grievances before the public in a pamphlet, after his return to the United States, and was about the same time appointed to a Consulate by the government. Perry returned with the squadron to the United States. This affair produced a duel between the parties, Captain Heath's fire did not take effect. Commodore Perry discharged his pistol in the air and the quarrel terminated. The meeting took place in New-Jersey, opposite to New-York, in the summer of 1818.

CAPTAIN

JACOB JONES.

JACOB JONES, was born about the year 1770, Hear the village of Smyrna, in the county of Kent, in the State of Delaware. His father was an independent and respectable farmer. His mother, of the name of Jones, was an amiable and interesting woman. She died when the subject of this memoir was yet an infant. Between two and three years afterwards, his father married again, with a Miss Holt, grand-daughter of the honourable Ryves Holt, formerly Chief Justice of the Su

preme Court of Delaware. Shortly after this second marriage, his father died, when this his only child was scarcely four years of age. It was his good fortune to be left under the care of a good step-mother. By her he was nurtured from infancy to manhood, with maternal care and tenderness. At an early age, he was placed at school, and his proficiency in learning was equal to her most anxious wishes. After becoming well acquainted with the general branches of an English education, he was transferred to a grammar school at Lewes, in Sussex county, conducted by Doctor Matthew Wilson. Under his direction he read the classics with much assiduity, and became well acquainted with the Latin and Greek languages. In the geographical lessons he continually bore off the palm, and received repeated proofs of approbation from his preceptor. At the age of eighteen, he left Lewes academy, and commenced the study of physic and surgery, under Doctor Sykes, an eminent physician and surgeon of Dover, in the county of Kent. With him he diligently prosecuted his studies for four years, after which he attended the usual courses of medical lectures of the University of Pennsylvania, and then return ed to Dover to commence the exercise of his profession.

He did not, however, continue long in the practice. Discouraged by the scanty employment that is commonly the lot of the young physician, and impatient of an inactive life, he determined to abandon the profession and seek some more productive occupation. This resolution was a matter of much regret among the elder physicians. They entertained a high opinion of his medical acquirements, and considered him as promising to become a distinguished and skilful member of