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leave to recommend these young 

 men to your excellency's notice. 

 Norton is wounded, but not badly : 

 lie and the Indians particularly dis- 

 tinguished themselves; and I have 

 very great satisfaction in assuring 

 your excellency, that the spirit and 

 good conduct of his Majesty's troop?, 

 of the militia, and of the other pro- 

 vincial corps, were eminently con- 

 spicuous on this occasion. 



I have not been able to ascer- 

 tain yet the number of our troops, 

 or of those of the enemy engaged : 

 our's, I believe, did not exceed the 

 number of the prisoners we have 

 taken ; and their advance, which ef- 

 fected a landing, probably amount- 

 ed to thirteen or fourteen hundred.- 



I shall do myself the honour of 

 transmitting to your excellency 

 further details when I shall have 

 received the several reports of the 

 occurrences which did not pass un- 

 der my own observation, with the 

 return of the casualties, and those 

 of the killed and wounded, and of 

 the ordnance taken. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 

 (Signed) R. H. Siieaffe, 

 Major-General. 

 To his excellency Sir George 

 Prevost, Bart. &c. 



Admiralty-nJJice, Dec. 29. 

 Copy of a letter from Captain 

 John Surman Carden, late com- 

 mander of his Majesty's ship the 

 Macedonian, to John Wilson Cro- 

 ker, esq. dated on board the Ame- 

 rican ship United States, at sea, 

 the 28th Oct. IS 12. 



Sir, — It is with the deepest re- 

 gret I have to acquaint you, for 

 the information of my Lords Com- 

 missioners of the Admiralty that 



his majesty's late ship Macedonian 

 was captured on the 25th instant 

 by the United States ship United 

 States, Commodore Decatur com- 

 mander : the detail is as follows : — 

 A short time after daylight, 

 steering N. W. by W. with the wind 

 from the southward, in lat. 29 

 deg. N. and long. 29 deg. 30 min. 

 W. in the execution of their lord- 

 ships orders, a sail was seen on the 

 lee beam, which I immediately 

 stood for, and made her out to be a 

 large frigate under American co- 

 lours: at nine o'clock I closed with 

 her, and she commenced the ac- 

 tion, which we returned ; but from 

 the enemy keeping two points off 

 the wind, I was not enabled to get 

 as close to her as I could have wish- 

 ed. After an hour's action, the 

 enemy backed and came to the 

 wind, and I was then enabled to 

 bring her to close battle ; in this 

 situation I soon found the enemy's 

 force too superior to ex))ect suc- 

 cess, unless some very fortunate 

 chance occurred in our favour ; and 

 with this hope I continued the bat- 

 tle to two hours and ten minutes, 

 when, having the mizen-raast shot 

 away by the board, topmasts shot 

 away by the caps, main-yard shot 

 in pieces, lower mastsbadly wound- 

 ed, lower rigging all cut to pieces, 

 a small proportion only of the fore- 

 sail left to the fore-yard, all the 

 guns on the quarter-deck and fore- 

 castle disabled but two, and filled 

 with wreck, two also on the main- 

 deck disabled, and several shot be- 

 tween wind and water, a very great 

 proportion of the crew killed and 

 wounded, and the enemy compara- 

 tively in good order, who had now 

 shot a-head, and was about to 

 place himself in a raking position, 

 without our being enabled to re- 

 turn 



