The National tribune., 1898-05-19

Joseph Yorke, Jones found that his an
chorage was in waters English in every
thing but name.
To round out his difficulties and make
them complete, he had to subdue d mutiny
in his own squadron!
The Alliance, under Landais had got into
the Yexel a day ahead Of Jones in the
Serapis, and the first act of the latter was
To detach LandaiS from command Of the
former ship. The order of detachment was
borne by Capt. Cottineau, of the Palas and
Landais responded to il by a challenge to
the bearer.
Accepting this combat the gallant Cotti-
neau was badly wounded in duel with
rapiers the next morning on the Island OF
Texel. While Landais was absent from
his ship engaged in this duel. Capt
Jones placed the First Lieutenant Of
the Alliance, James Arthur Degge, in
command directing him To arrest Landais
If he attempted 10 return on board, and
by way oi providing for the enforcement Of
this order, he transferred Lieut.. Henry
Lunt with Acting Lieuts. Mayrant and
Tanning and about 20 of the Richard S
surviving crew from the Serapis 10 the
Alliance, removing an equal number of the
lattcrs officers and men, known to be
adherents Of Landais. into the Serapis.
LANDAIS CHALLENGES JONES.
Getting wind Of this operation, and know
ing that Arthur Degge, backed as he was
by the 20 Yankee buliyraggers Of the
Richard, would obey the Commodore's
orders, LandaIS made no attempt to return
TO the Alliance, but went to Amsterdam,
whence he wrote several abusive letters To
Jones. Receiving no reply to these he
finally sent by his marine officer, Lieut..
Weibert who had been his second in the
Cottineau duel and had shared his exile,
a challenge to Jones himself.
Accnrdi,1p to the ST ri efh hice of tho cnja
Capt. Jones was not altogether bound 10
entertain such proposition, at least not
until Landais had cleared himself OF the
charges against him and purged himself
OF the disgrace Of being in arrest
However, the Commodore did not avail
himself of these technicalities, but
promptly placed his end of the affair in
the hands Of Lieut.. Henry Lunt. who
waited on Landais and proposed d meet
ing with pistols at 10 PAGES.
AS soon as this was communicated TO
Landais he violently protested that the
pistol was not recognized as a weapon of
honor under the French code, and ex-
claimed that the proposition was barbar-
Gus.
To this Lunt responded that the code
prevailing in America did recognize the
pistol, and that the Commodore, being an
American, was entitled 10 proceed accord
ing To the code Of his own country.
Finding that he could not bully Jones
into accepting his Iandais's) favorite
weapon, the rapier, and thereby in all
probability sharing Cottineaus fate, and
having no stomach for Jones's pistol lin
the use of which he knew the latter 10 be
extremely expert Landais left Amsterdam
at daylight the next morning and fled by
postchaise To Paris
Some of Jones's biographers have criti-
cised this action on the part Of their hero
as being, under the circumstances, uncalled
for, or at least lacking the lofty dignity
which they think should have character
ized him; while at least two of them, writ
ing in the moral atmosphere of the latter
half OF the 10Th century, inferentially deny
that he proposed " fight Landais at eli,