Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-08-26

,lgndl tor the HSct 10 tuohS as
i, the enemy bore S. S. w. bore up and
,teer.d for hin. Ats, observed the e.
nen,y hccslned und2r the land, nearing
him very fast tn fine breeze tom
| ". N, w. A, s, formed the order o.
battle within ab5ut miles OF he enc
NV Tae wiud at this time ve'Y hgh!.
| Al 7, the wind changed to 5 w snd a
| flesh breeze, which again placed the
enemy to indw,rd ofme Tackled and
hauled upon wind On The lar5oa'd taek
| under EASY sail, the enemy standing at,
| ter US At 81 when within about two
| gun shot uf ur rear, he wore toEhe
! southwark !: I stood on to the northward
under easy sa,!-the feet formed in two
lines. part of the schooners forming
! the weather line, with orders to com.
| mence the FIRE upon the eneny as soon
! ,s their snot would take effect, and as
the eoemy ,eaehed taem to edge DOM
! upon the line to ieeward and pass tAro'
| me intervals and form to leeward. A
about half past 10. the enemy tackled &
| stood af erus All, the rear OF our
line opened his FIRE upon the enemy: IN
| about s minutes the fire became gene
! raj from the weather line, which was re-
TUNED from the enemy. At half past
| Il, tue weather line bure up ard passed
to the leeward, except the G:owler q
Julia, w,ich soon after tackled to the
| southwark, which brought the enemy
between them and me. Filled the
maineopsail and edged away two
points 70 lead the enemy down, no.
only to engage him 10 more advantage,
but to lead him from the Gro"lcr anI
Julia. He, however. kept his wind IN
iii he completely separated those tw"
vessels from the rest Of the squadron.
exchanged few shot with this sh'n "a
| he passed, without Injury to us, ana
| made sail siier our two schapners.-
| Tucked aud stood after him Al u
(midnighD fndlag that must e.the'
separate from the rest of the squadron.
or rcIinqu,sh The hope OF saving the two
winch had separated, Reluctantly gave
I'D the pursuit. rejoined the e iadro"
tncn 20 leeward, and foc'ned the line on
,he starboard tack. The firing wa,
continued between our two schooner
! and the enemy's feet uHti! about A VI
when, / presume, they were obiised u
| Surrender to force so much their Su-
perior. Saw nothing more OF the enc
my that night soon alter daylight di,
covered them close in with the north
shore, Wits one of our schooners in tow
the other not to be seen: / presume
she may have been sunk The enemy
snewei no disposition To come down up
On US. although 10 windword & blowing
heavy fr-m w The schooners labor
ing very much, ordcred2 ofthe dull
lest to run into NlagarI and aachor -
lhe gale increasing very much and a.
| could not 90 INFO Mag IA "ith this
ship, | determined to run TO Gcnesse
3ay, as a shelter for the snail vessels.
aid with the expectation OF being able
10 obtain provisions Tor the sq"adr N, as
sc we're ali nc ,r!y out, the Mldl'on
Oneida having nos single days on
board when we arrived opposite Genes
See Bay. + found there was every pros
pect Of the gales continuing, and 1t II
lid, could run to this place and Prov
sion the whole squadron with more cor.
ainty, and nearly in the same time tnal
| could at Gennessee, admitting that
could obtain provisions at that place -
After bringing the breeze as Tar as Us
~ego, the wind became light, inclinlng
10 calm. which has prolonged oar pas
sage to this day shsll provision the
squadron for FIVE weeks aud proceed up
The Lake this evening, and when | re.
turn again hope to be able to commu-
ncate more agreeable news than this
communica ion contains.
The lnss of The GroWler and Julia, in
he manner in which they have been
lost, i. mor,ifying in the extreme; and
although their commanders disobeved
nv positive orders ! am willing to be-
lieye that it arose from ALI error OF Judg-
mcnt, aid excess of zeal. to do more
,nan was required of them thinking
probably that the epemy Intended {"
bring US to general action !hey tho''
by gaining the wind of bin they won
have it more in their power to annoy x
injure him than they could by fornine
to leeward of our line, From wha' l
have been able- TO q ever OF the move
men,s al the enemy ne has no Intention
ol engaging Us, except ne can get de-
cidedIy the advantage # wind and YEA
her, and as his vessels III squadron Sal
better than our squadron, he cab Away
avoid an actien--unless can gam the
wind and have stuff lent daylight IL
briag> him to action before dark HIS
biect is evidently to harrass US ty
,ight attacks. by which means he thl =
to cut IF our small, dull sailing schrs.
i, dstiil Fortune has, Violently, la
vored lin thus far. hope that IT viii.
be my tufn next, and ait eugn inferior
in poin, OF force, feel very contfdent Of