The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1813-08-04
cHEsApEAKE AND SHANNON.


believe from what you say, that you
are disposed to think that captain Lawrence
intended 10 board the Shannon, the fact was
stated TO me otherwise, and capt L. has
frequently told me, that our superiority in
gunnery was so manifest, that he would ne
vcr board until his masts were disabled.
The second broadsiae capt. L. with every
other officer on the. upper deck who was
not killed. was n,ortal!y wounded and fell
exclaiming fire away my Lads By the
time the Chesapeake had ranged little
ahead OF the Shannon, her Tb sheet was cut
and the sings Of the fore top sail yard,
winch brought il OH the cap, her spankcr
brails being cut, and no doubt her bow lines
| and braces, her spanker few out and luff-
| ed her into the wind, when she took aback,
got stern way and fell with her quarter loul
OF the ShannoD's starboard ancher. Capt.
II. all this time lying on the deck calling
the Boarders, 1t. Coke being one, came on
deck and assisted in carrying capt. L. be-
low! In the mean time com. Broke board
cd at the head of 20 men; he was shot in
the neck by the Chaplain Uivermore) who
at the same time h. (Brookc) cut down
with his sabre.
! Llvermore has since arrived at Boston
and says If there had been an officer with
20 men on the quarter deck, the fate OF the
action would have been different, Cor i, was
or 4 minutes before other boarders Joined
the first. Yet ct this time MIR. Budd tells
US he was boarding the fore tack to get the
ships clear, d--n such boarding. when the
enemy was boarding the quarter deck J!
Alter the enemy had undoubted posses
sion OF the ship they still continued in a
most fcrocious and barbarous manner to
shoos and cut our brave tars, and their
first lieutenant was shot by an American
from the main top, while mangling the dy-
ing and wounded on the quarter deck!
"Our midshipmen were plundcrcd Of
thcir clothes and when thy complained to
the comnar ding officer nc told them Is by
I'd It hear any more of your complaints
l will put you down in the hold with the
men," For the truth of this sir, will an.
swcr with my life, and hope you will not
suffer the contrary TO be advanced in YOUR
presence.
1t was with difficulty the Shannon was
kept afloat the night after the action, the
Chesapeake on the contrary received
scarcely any damage from the shot of her
opponent. The English officers did not
hesitate to say they could not have with.
stood the fire of the Chesapeake ten mi.
nutes longer"
From the Neshort Mercury IN.
| iy 90.
| Latest from Engiand-Ycsterdaya rriy-
ed here the ship Canton, capt Cogce all.
| 50 days from Lisbon.
Captain c. politely favored the editors
of the Mercury with London papers to
June IL, eleven days latest) and Lisbon
! papers to June 81, from which they have
extracted the following highly important
intelligence.
| An official account from lieut.. general
| Charles Stewart, to lord Cast,ereaph, dat
en- at Goldsberg, about $50 or 60 miles
from Beutzen,) 25th May, states that the
| allied army commended by count Wittgen-
stein, was attacked on the 2lst MAY at tay
break, near Warschen and Hockerch Ky the
| French army commanded by Bonaparte in
person-that the allied army consisted of
$4,000 men, and the French of 10000
that BoDaparte had united all his forces
and drawn many troops from distant posts
for that pnrpose--that the ground was
warmly disputed all that day; but in the
evening the allies overpowered' by mum.
bers, commenced their retreat in good or
der, and without any loss Of cannon, wag-
gons or military stores, and moved on slow
ly and regularly towards SiIesia. That
every part oftbe army behaved we'll thro'
the whole OF this terrible battle, but the
Prnssians deserve particular praisc-That
the loss in killed & wounded on both sides
was very great, but greater on the part of
the French; the numbers are not men,
toned by gen. Stewart, who says that "it
was not possible to ascertain them, with
any exactness." After the battle, the all
lies retired between Hockkirch and Weis-