Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-11-17
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From the New York American.
OLD KENNEDY, THE QUARTER-MaSTER.

bLD hENNbDl, TILE QUAkTER-MASTER.
Chesapeake and shannon-Boat Fight on Lake Ontario.
Well, Mr.. Kennedy, says Lee, YOU have
told us Of your victories,-have YOU always
been victorious---have you always had the
luck on your side Where did you lose your
arm! The old man took long and deiber-
ate survey OF The horizon behind us, appar-
emily not well pleased with dark cloud lust
beginning to lift itself above its edge; but
whatever differences he drew from it he kent
TO himself, and having relieved his mouth from
the quid, and replenishing the vacuum bv a
fresh bite of pig tail, he leisurly turned TO us
again, and replied to us with some emphasis
"Them as fights the English, fights men-and
though it's been my luck to be taken twice
by them, cnc't in the unlucky Chesapeake, and
onc't on the Lakes, and though owes the
loss Of my flipper to the muskct marked CIR,
hopes bears them no more grudgc than be-
comes true Yankee Sailor. Now, speaking
OF that, Pve always obsarved, since the war.
when our ships is IN the same port, that how
ever much we always fights, when we falls in
with each other, that the moment the English
or Americans gets into muss with the French.
or the Dutch, or the Spaniards, that they
makes common cause, and tumblcs in and
helps one another-but Pm blest but that
Chesapeake business was q bad affair." They
took the ship-let them have the credit of it.
says but no great credit neither; for half
: the men were foreigners in state of mutiny.
and none of the men know'd their officers !
hearn Captain Lawrence say himself after he
was carried below, that when he ordered the
bugl man to sound to repel borders, the
cursed Portuguese was so frightened, or treach-
erous, that no sound came from the bugle,
though his cheeks swelled as if in the act
and hearn a British officer saw to one OF
our'n, that Captain Lawrence owet, his death
to his wearing white cravat into action. and
that sharP-shooter in their tops picked him
of, knowing as how, that no common man
would be so dressed.
/. don't complain of their getting the best oil
II, Tor that is the fortune of war; but thew be-
haved badly after the colors was hauled down
They fred down the matches and 0ifting his
hat and exhibiting seam that measured his
mead from the crown to the ear) | received
TINS here Slash from the cutlass of drunken
sailor, Tor my share, as ] came up the main
hatch, alter she surrendered-my eyes all
the stars IN heaven were dancing before me
las tumbled back senseless on the gun deck
be!ow; and when they brought the ship into
Halifax, she smell more like slauohter-house
they whipt US, and there's an end of the matter
only wish't our gallant Lawrence mioht
have died before the colours came down, and
been spared the pain of seeing his shin in the
hands of the enemy. 1t was what we old sal
lors expected, though. She was an unlucky
ship, and that disgraceful affair between her
and the Leopard, was enough to take the luck
out of any ship. Now if it had been "Old
Ironsides'," or the "Old Wagon,o United
States) Pm blessed but the guns would
have gone off Themselves, had the whole crew
mutinied end refused to come TO quarters.
when they heard the roar of the British cam
hon--ay, ay, Old Ironsides' bull dogs have
barked at John Bull often enough, ay, and al
ways held him by the nose, too, when they
growled- but the Chesapeake's colors was
hauled down, while the Siiannon's was living.
THAT'S enough-we had to knock under
let them have the credit Of it, say They'd
little cause, except in that ere fight to crow
over the Yankee blue jackets. They whipt
us, and there's an end Of the matter, and be
damned to 'ein.-But that amt answering your
question, as how lost my larboard npper.
1t wasn't in that ERE unfortunate ship, altho'
I If it would have saved the honor of the flag,
Bill Kennedy would willingly have given his
4 head and his arms too-but it was under the
Old Chauncey on Lake Ontario 1T was
in boat expedition on that 'ere lake. tina. |
first got loose sleeve to my jacket besides
being made prls'ner into the bargain. You
see, Sir James was shut up in Kingston, and
beyond the harbor there was long bay or
inlet setting up some three or four miles
n ow, the Commodore thought it mought be,
there was more Of his ships in that same bay
SO ne orders Lieuteuant---, him as the Eng
iIsh called the "Dare-devil Yankee,'-the
same as went in with a barge the year before
and burnt a heavy armed schooner on the
stocks, with all their stores, and came gway
by the light of it-at--at--U misremember
the place-"he orders him to proceed I'D the
bay to reconnoitre--to sec whether there was
any of the enemy's ships at anchor thereto