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in a prize, 5 killed, 9 drowned, and 4 escaped, leav 

 ing (including 8 sick and 3 mortally wounded) 

 112; there were also aboard 16 other British pris 

 oners, and the Hunter's crew of n men making 

 just 277. 19 According to Lieutenant Connor's let 

 ter, written in response to one from Lieutenant 

 Wright, there were in reality 139 in the Peacock's 

 crew when she began action; but it is, of course, 

 best to take each commander's account of the num 

 ber of men on board his ship that were fit for duty. 

 On January lyth the Viper, 12, Lieutenant J. D. 

 Henly, was captured by the British frigate Narcis 

 sus, 32, Captain Lumly. 



On February 8th, while a British squadron, con 

 sisting of the four frigates Belvidera (Captain 

 Richard Byron), Maidstone, Junon, and Statira, 

 were at anchor in Lynnhaven Bay, a schooner was 

 observed in the northeast standing down Chesa 

 peake Bay. 20 This was the Lottery, letter-of- 

 marque, of six 12-pounder carronades and 25 men, 

 Captain John Southcomb, bound from Baltimore 

 to Bombay. Nine boats, with 200 men, under 

 the command of Lieutenant Kelly Nazer, were 

 sent against her, and, a calm coming on, over- 



19 The 277 men were thus divided into: Hornet's crew, 138; 

 Peacock's crew, 112; Resolution's crew, 16; Hunter's crew, 

 n. James quotes "270" men, which he divides as follows: 

 Hornet, 160; Peacock, 101 ; Hunter, 9 leaving out the 

 Resolution's crew, n of the Peacock's, and 2 of the 

 Hunter's. 



20 James, vi, 325. 



