The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-15 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

tinued engaged steering south, with steering sails
set, two lurs and a half, iwbeb lie completely suc-
ceeded ikdisetantling her, Perviously to her drop-
ping entirely out of the action, there were intervals
of minutes when the ships were broadside and broad-
side, in which she did not fire a gun.
At this period (half past eight o'clock) although
dark, the other ships of the squadron were in sight,
and nearly within gun-shot, we were, of course,
compelled to abandon her; in assuming our former
course, for the purpose f avoiding the squadron,
we were compelled to present oar stern to oar an-
' tagonist ; but such was his state, although we were
thus exposed, and within range of his guns, that be
did not avail himself of this favourable opportunity
of raking us: we continued this coarse until eleven
o'clock, when two fresh ships of the enemy (the
Pomone and Tenedos) had come up ; the Penione
had opened her fire on the larboard bow, within
musket shot, the other about two cables' lengths
astern, taking a raking position on one quarter, and
the rest (with the exception of the Endamion) which
ship was not in sight) within gun-shot.
Thus situated, with about one-fifth of my crew
I killed or wounded, my ship crippled, and a more
than fourfold force opposed to me, without a chance
of escape left, I deemed it my duty to surrender.
It is with emotions of pride I bear testimony to
the gallantry and steadiness of every Officer and man
I had the honour to command on this occasion ; and
I feel satisfied of the fact of their having beaten a
force equal to themselves, in the presence and almost
under the guns of so vastly a superior force, when,
too, it was almost self-evideut that, whatever their
exertions might be, they must ultimately be cap-
tured, will be taken as evidence of what they would
have performed, Fad the force opposed to them been
in any degree equal.
If, Sir, the issue of this affair had been fortunate,
I should have felt it my duty to have recommended
to your attention Lieutenants Shubrick :and Gal-
lagher; they maintained, throughout the day, the
reputation they had 'acquired in former actions;
Lieutenant Twiggs, of the marines, displayed great
zeal; his men were well supplied, and their fire in-
comparable, so long as the enemy continued within
musket range. Midshipman Randolph, who had
charge of the forecastle division, Managed it to my
entire satisfaction. From Mr. Robinson, who was
serving as a volunteer, I received essential aid, par-
ticularly after I was deprived of the services of the
`Master, and the severe loss I had sustained in my
Officers on the quarter-deck.
It is with extreme regret I have to inform you that
Lieutenants HAW, Hamilton, and Rowell fell in
the action ; they have left no Officers. of superior
merit behind them. Of our loss in killed and wound.
ed, I am unable, at present, to give you a correct
statement, the attention of the Surgeon being se
entirely occupied with the wounded, that he was
unable to make out a correct return when I left the
President ; nor shall I be enabled to make it until
our arrival in port, we having parted company with
the squadron yesterday ; the enclosed list, with the
' exception, I fear, of its being short of the number,
I will be found correct. _

For twenty-four hours after the action it was near-
ly calm, and the squadron were occupied in repairing
the crippled ships ; such of the crew of the President
as were not badly wounded were distributed on board
the different ships : m) Of, and a part of my crew,
were put on board this ship.
Oil the 17th %ie had a gale from the eastward,
when this ship lost her bowsprit, fore and main masts
and mizen top-mast, all of which were badly wound.
ed, and was, in consequence of her shattered condi.
tiott, obliged to throw overboard all her upper-deck
guns. Her lon in killed and wounded must have
been very great: they appear extremely anxious to
conceal it. The number thrown over-board dosing
the action, and the day following, I have not been
able to ascertain; ten were buried after I came on
board (36 hours after the action), the badly wound-
ed, such as are compelled to keep their cots, occupy
the gun-deckt from the cabin-bulk-head to the main•
mast.

From the crippled state of the President's spars, I
feel sati.lied she could not have saved her masts ; and
I feel serious apprehensions for the safety of_our
wounded left on board. •

It is due to Captain Hope to state, that every
attention has been paid by him to myself and
officers that have been placed on board his ship, that
delicacy and humanity could dictate.--I have the ho-
nour to be, with much respect, Sir, your obedient
servant,
(Signed) S. DECATUR.
The Hon. Benjamin Crowainshield, Secretary of the Navy.
Squndion referred to in above letter:—Majestic
(razee), Eudymion, Pomone, TeuetioN and Dispatch brig.

SUPPLEMENT TO TH E LONDON GAZETTE

OF TUESDAY, M.►Rca 11.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH li.

Foreign Office, ilfarch 14.

The Honourable Captain Maude, of his Majesty's
ship Favourite, arrived at this office at half-past nine
last night, being the bearer of the Ratification, by
the President and Senate of the United States of
America, of the Treaty of Peace, concluded at
Ghent, between his Majesty and the said United
States, on the 24th of December last ; of which
Treaty the following is a copy :

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citizens of the'United States; who, after a
Egrilmmunlcation of their respective full pow,
grapd upon the following Artitles:—.
ALIT. I. There shalt be a firm add ettiverc
t between.his Britannic Majesty and the 'United
and between their respective countries,
cities, towns, and people, of every degree,
exception of places or persons. All !instil
by sea and land, shell cease as soon as ti
;Itsall have been ratified by both parties
after-mentioned. All territory, places, al
tions whatsoever, taken by either party
other during the war, or wbich may be MI
the signing of this Treaty, excepting
Islands hereafter-mentioned, shall be rest.
out delay, and without causing any destruct,
'carrying away any of the artillery, or or
property, originally captured in the sat
places, and which shall remain therein
exchange of the Ratifications of this Treat
slaves or other private property. And al
records, deeds, and papers, either of a
tore, or belonging to private persons, wl
course of the war may have fallen into the
the officers of either party, shall be, as I
be practicable, forthwith restored, end d(
the proper authorities and persons to who(
spectively belong.
Such of the Islands in the Bay of Passau
as are claimed by both parties shall remain
rpossession of the party in whose occupatice
Ibe at the time of the exchange of the retire __ ..... ....us &WIWI, glaim. - -
this Treaty, until the decision respecting the title to I along the middle of that 'titer, to the forty-fifth
the said Islands shall have been made, iu conformity I degree of north latitude, thence by slice doe west
with the Fourth Article of this Treaty. 1 on said latitude until it striltellhe tiver.lroquois or
No disposition made by this Treaty, as to such , Cataraguy, has not yet 'beau surveyed, It is agreed
possession of the islands and territories claimed by ; that for these several purposes. two Commissioners
both parties, shall in any manner whatever be con- I shall be appointed, sworn, and authorised, to act
'trued to affect the right of either. exactly in the manner directed with respect to
Arr. 11. Immediately after the ratifications of 1 those mentioned in the next preceding . article,
this Treaty by both parties as herein after- I unless otherwise specified in the present article.—
men-tioned, orders shall be sent to the armies, I The said Commissioners shall meet at St. Andrew's,
' squadrons, officers, subjects, and citizens of the 'hi the province of New Brunswick, and shall have
two Powers, to cease from all hostilities. And power to adjourn to such other place or places as
to prevent all causes of complaint which may arise ! they shall thick, fit. The said Comniissioners shall
on account of the prizes which may betaken at sea: hate power to ascertain and determine the points
lifter the said ratifications of this Treaty, it is reci- above mentioned, in coniormity with The prairie
procally agreed, that all vessels and• effects which lions of the said Treaty of Peace of 1783; la
may be taken after the space of twelve days from the I shall cause the boundary aforesaid, from the sown
said ratifications upon all ports of the coast of Mirth-, of the river St. Croix to the river froquoie or
America, from the latitude of 23 degrees north, to'; Caters/n(lr to be surveyed and marked according to
the latitude of 50 degrees north, and as far eastward Abe, inlet provisions; the std Commissioners shall
In the Atlantic Ocean ns the 26th degree of west' make a map of the Said boundary, and aunexed to
longitude from the merislian of-Greeneicii, shall be it a declaration ender their hands and seals, certify-
restored on each side ; that the time shall be thirty : ing it to be the troonlap of the said boundary, and
days is all other parts of the Attlantic Ocean north particularizing the. latihuthe ind , longitude of the
of the equinoctial line or equitor, end the same time Ltterth-west eagle' of: nova Scotia, of Abe north-
' for the British and Irish Channels. for the Gulf of westernmost bead-of, Connecticut Ititer.,andof such
1 Mexico, and all parts of the West Indies ; forty other points of the saiffboundary as they may decor
days for the North Seas, for the Baltic, and for all proper. And both parties agree to consider such
parts of the Mediterranean ; sixty days for the At-' map and declaration as finally and concluttrely f.'
lantic Ocean, south of the equator, as far as the la-' the said boundary. And in the eve* of the said
titude of the Cape of Good H m
elope ;
.ninety days for Commissioners differing, or both, or either of
I every other part of the world south of the equator, !refuSing, declining, or wilfully omittins to act,
and one hundred and twenty days for all othersparts ! reports, dechtratione, or statements shell be mai
of the world without exception. ' • ' them, or either of tnem, and such reference ,
ART. 111. All prisoners of war taken on either 7friendly Sovereign or State shall be made in all
side, as well by land as by sea, shall be restored as spects, as in the latter part of the feur(h article
soon as practicable after the ratification- of this : contained, and in as full a manner as if the
, Treaty as herein-after-mentiohed, on their paying was herein repeated.
the debts which they may have contracted during ._ AZT* VI. Whereas by the former Treaty of Peal
1 their captivity. The two Contracting Parties respec- that portion of the boundary of the United !
tively engage to discharge in specie the advances from the point where the 45th degree of north
' which may have been made by the other for the sue- ,'tilde itviket tho River Iroquois or I.:autarky, to
(tenance and maintenance of such prisoners. , Lake Superior, was declared to* be 66 along
ART:SIV. Whereas, it was stipulated by the 2d I middle of said river into Like Ontario, through
-Article in the Treaty of Peace of 1783, between his ' middle of said lake, until it strikes the comma!
Britannic Majesty and the United States of Alpo-Ition by water between that lake and Lake
rica, that the boundary of the United States should I thence along the middle of said communication
comprehend " all Islands within 20 leagues of any 'Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake, u,
part of the shores of the United States, and lying be. , errrives at the water communication into the
tween lines to be drawn due east from the points ' Huron, thence through the middle of niabla
where the aforesaid boundaries, between Nova Scotia the water communication between that lake and
lon the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall Superior ;" and whereas doubts have arisen
respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic I was the middle of the said river, lakes, and
Ocean, excepting such Islands as now are, or hereto- I communications, and whether certain islands
fore have been within the limits of Nova Scotia." And 'in the same were within the dominions, of his
whereas the several Islinds in the Buy of Passama- ; tannic Majesty or of the United States. In of
quoddy, which is part of the Bay of Fundy, and i therefore, finally. to decide these doubts, they
the Island of Grand Menan, in the said Bay of , be referred to two Commissioners, to be apeoit
Fundy, are claimed by the United States, as being : se:ern, and authorised to act exactly in the mai
comprehended within their aforesaid boundaries, directed with respect to those mentioned in the '
which said Islands are claimer] as belonging to his' preceding article, unless otherwise specified in
Britannic Majesty, as having
,been at the time 0f,,1 present article. The said Commissioners shall .
and previous to the afareratid Treaty of •:1783,“n. the first instance, at Albany, in the State
within the limits of the province of Nova' Scotia LlNew York,- and shall have power to adjourn to
in order, therefore, finally, to decide' ppon these 1 other place or places as they nail think fit.
!claims, it:is agreed that they-shall be 'referred to siaid Commissioners shall, by a report or declarah
two commissioners, to be appointed in the follow- under their hand and seals, designate the bound,
, ing manner, viz. :--One Commissioner shall be ap.• through the said river, lakes, and water commune
pointed by his Britannic Majesty, and one by the , tions, and decide to which of the two Contras
the advice and consent of the Senate thereof; and ; Parties' the several Islands lying within the
the said two Commissioners so appointed, dipll be! rivers, lakes, ,aval. ,water communications, do
swore impartially to examine and decia upon the l spectively belongs in conformity with the true
said claims, according to such evidence as shall be tent of the said Treaty of 17G3. And both Ps
laid before them on the. part of .leis.Mritanag 'Ma- agree to consider such destination and decisio
jesty and of the United States vetpeotinely. The said , Pal end sonclusive. And in the event of of the
Commissioners shall .meet at. St. Alidmort, sits-thii. bieLt onitatsl9yers differing,sstr both •or eithe
province of New Brunswick, and shall have power "them Eefosirig, declining, or wilfully omittie
to adjowris ,to such other place or places as they actottch reohrts, declarations, or statement!,
shall think 'fit. The said Commissioners' hill by al, be made by them, or either of them, and sucl
decleratleo or report under their hands and sealso *retina tti h friendly Savo pips or State shall be
decide to which of the two Cuntracting Parties "the . in all respects is in the inlet. pert of the fours
several Islands aforesaid do respectively belong, in , ticles is contained, and in. as full a. manner as '
conformity with the, true intent of the said Treaty :lame was herein repeated.
of Peace of 1783; and if the said Commissioners i 'AWN VII.. It is further agreed,' that the said
shall. agree in their decision, both parties shall consi- lastementioned Commissioners, after they shall "
der such decision as final and conclusive. , i enectited.tbe duties assigned to them in the prey
It is further agreed, that in the event of the two article, shall be, aid they are hereby authL
Commissioners differing upon all or any of the upon their oaths,. impartially to fix and &terns
matters so referred to them, or in the event of both according', to the, trite intent of "Ihelaid Treat
or either of the said Commissioners refusing or de. i Peeneef 1783, that part of the 'boundary bee
clining,.or wilfully omitting to act as such, they,! the dominions of the two Posers, which ell
shall make jointly or separately, report or reports, train the Witter communication between Lake
as well to the Government of his Britannic Ma. and Lake Superior, to the most north-wet
jesty, as to that
.of.
.the United' States, stating in. paint of-'the Lake of the 'Woods ; to decide
detail the points on which ' they differ, and the; which lir the two Parties the several islands Ivies
grouOds upon which their respective opinions have ; the lakes, water communications and rivers lure
been formed, or the grounds upon which they, ov ; the said boundary, do respectively belong, in c
either of them, have so refused, 'declined, or omit. i (nrmity with the true intent of the said Treaty
ted to act. And his Britannic Majesty and the I Peace of 1783, and to cause such parts of the
Government of the United States hereby agree to' boundary as require it to be surveyed and ma'
refer the report or reports of the said Commis- The said CoMmissioners shall by a report or (I•
stoners to some friendly Sovereign or State, to be ration, under their hands and seals, designate
then named for that purpose, and Who gall be boundary aforesaid> state their decision on

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F-• -Arc • - - 2 r:3•70;101- -Mil; a lir litatgai
etie'lpro4al requested to decide on the differences which may
,veers, hive be stated in the said report or reports, or upon the
report of one Commissioner, together with the
renal peace grounds upon which the other Commissioner shall
ited States, have refused, declined, or. omitted to act, as the
territories, case may be. And if the Commissioner so refuting,
e, without declining, or omitting to act, shall also wilfully
ilities, both omit to state the grounds upon which he has so done,
this Treaty in such manner that the said statement may be re.
;as herein- (erred to such friendly Sovereign or State, together
and posses- with the report of such other Commissioner, then:
r from the such Sovereign or State shall decide, ev parte, upon
taken after the said report alone '-rand his Britannic Majesty and.
only the the Government of the United States engage to, coo-
toted with- sider the decision of such Mend!), Sovereign or State,
ruction, or to be final and conclusive on all Lie matters so re-
)ther public (erred.'
tid forts or ART. V.—Whereas neither that point of the High.
upon the lands lying due nettit from the source of the river St.
ty, or any 1 Croix, designated in the former Treaty of Peace be.
ll archives, I tween the two Powers, as the ilortit.w..st angle of
public na- Nova Scotia, nor the north vv .steremost head of
rhich in the Connecticut River have yet bre astcrtained ; and
he hands of whereas that part of the boundary line between the
far as may dominions of the two Powers, which patent's front
delivered tis the source of the River Saint Croix, directly
)m they re- north to the above-mentioned north-west angle
of Nova Scotia, (hence along the said Highlsodi
amaquoddy which divide those rivers that empty
lain in the into the river Saint Lawrentei • fain those which
in they may fall into the Atlantic Ocean to. the. WM-Western.
ifications of , most head of Connecticut Rivers thence down

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