Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-04-17
CONSTITUTION FRIGATE.
NETWORK, APRIL 8

NETWORK, APRIL 8,
" Arrived, below, Britilh Sloop oil
War CYANE, late Capt. Gordon, rated
&c, but mounting ga guns, Lieut., Hof
man, Prize Matter, Prize to the u. 5.
Frigate CONS lIrUTiON, Capt STEW
ART, captured, together with the LE-
Want, Britiih n lop Of War, rated IS,
bat mounting u guns, by that Frigate,
on the 2Srh Feb. off Madeira, after an
action of 50 minutes, when the Cyane
truck her colors, and the Levant made
fail, in hopes 70 make her eicape. After
fecuripg the Cyane, the Contribution
m4de fail in chace of the Levanr, and
loon came up with her. She however
did nor flrikc, until fhe had exchanged
couple of broadGdes. The Conitltu-
ton had a killed, and 7 wounded The
Hoops engaged the Contribution at the
fame time, one on her bow, and the
other on her quarter.-The Cyanc
mounts n 81 ID. carronades on her
gum deck, 10 10 ID. carropades on her
quarterback, and long os on her fore
cattle. he Contribution took both pri-
yes into ST. Jago, Cape de Verbs, where
the landed her prlfoners +; and on the
morning of the Sin March, dlfcovered
three heavy Brltiih fhips Handing into
the harbor, on which he, with her prl
yes, Immediately got under way and put
to fea, clofely purified by the fquadron.
The Cyane altered her courfe, aud was
not purfued loft Gghs of her compan-
ions in the afternoon of the 9Th, when
they were about Z miles to windward of
the enemy, the Contribution gaining from
them ard Leyant faf' After he Cyaue
had left fight of the Contribution, nttIe
before funfet, heavy oannenading was
heard in The direction of the hottie fhips,
which leaves room to fear that the chace
came up with the Contribution or the
Levant.
The Cyane ia rated in Steei's Liz 90 guns
but lie mounts 81 all told. She was laid down
| IN !ooG, and commanded by Thomas FoRsssT.
he Levant IL rated "a gaos, was aid dow 10
1873. her commander does rot appear IN Stee :
Lift which is before US. The Conlttu lion in her
| engagement with both ships had 4 men killed,
! aud wounded
~ In our laa sffiia Britil1 i" Asmiroit, Ofe
Aaoy Lift, are the following minutes of lneie
vsnes -
"CYANE. 90. Cyt. George Falcon, Lisut,.
Alexander NJ kenGe Henry IeIlico ;ldef John
Roberts 1t. Maiiuo, W. :. Dodd S.r. David
Jones Fws Henry Ennisn
IEVAAT Cahf Tic, n nor,I,s y
Richard Pullman John Hender; Ii, Mar W.
Meheur, Me9. Michael Richards Sp Rober,
Abbot Puss. John Hua;"
Lnaler account.
GIN Y. APRIL 8.-Arrived Britill
Sloop of War Cyane, &c. mourning "a
guns, prize, &c. as above named
The Contribution had a killed, and wcun.
ded. The prifoners were landed at St
]ago. The lofs Of the Britilh veiiels
not known. The prizes had left the
Contribution on the morning of the 9Th
March on which day three Griffith ihips
hove in fight, when the trigates and her
prizes cut and run When the Confti-
tuition was lalt seen, fhe was two miles
to windwarc of the Britifh fquadron,
leaving the Levant fait. In the after
part OF the day heavy firing was
heard"
A letter from the Editors of the N. Y.
Mercantile Ad0erysr, fays, " When the
Contribution was lalt feen, Gc was TAFT
ditancing the chaling veAels as well as
the Levant; that firing was atterward
heard, and it was fuppOled the Levant
was retaken. he Cyane, it is faid, was
commanded by Capt. GORDON"
"lhe Cyane mounts n 32,lb carron-
AIDES On her quarter deck, and long os
on her fore cattle.
The names Of the killed on board the
Constitution are as f>l!ow-John Felling-
ton, John les'ngton, Anthony Fa.roy Ga
Portuguese and William herrell. One
oil the wounded (J1hn Lancey, supposed 70
be OF CloucesterO has since did.
. From an EngHb paber Of Tansayy 81.