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long 24's, fifteen in each broadside. She did not 

 have a complete spardeck ; on her poop, which came 

 forward to the mizzenmast, were two 32-pound (or 

 possibly 42-pound) carronades and on her spacious 

 topgallant forecastle were four 32- (or 42-) pound 

 carronades, and a long 24 on a pivot. 15 She had 

 aboard her a furnace for heating shot, eight or ten 

 of which heated shot were found with the furnace. 16 

 This was, of course, a perfectly legitimate advantage. 

 The Linnet, Captain Daniel Pring, was a brig of the 

 same size as the Ticonderoga, mounting 16 long 

 I2's. The Chubb and Finch, Lieutenants James 

 McGhie and William Hicks, were formerly the 

 American sloops Growler and Eagle, of 112 and no 

 tons respectively. The former mounted ten 18- 

 pound carronades and one long 6; the latter, six 18- 

 pound carronades, four long 6's, and one short 18. 

 There were twelve gunboats. 17 Five of these were 



15 This is her armament as given by Cooper, on the author 

 ity of Lieutenant E. A. F. Lavallette, who was in charge of 

 her for three months, and went aboard her ten minutes after 

 the Linnet struck. 



Ie James stigmatizes the statement of Commodore Macdon- 

 ough about the furnace as "as gross a falsehood as ever was 

 uttered"; but he gives no authority for the denial, and it 

 appears to have been merely an ebullition of spleen on his 

 part. Every American officer who went aboard the Con- 

 fiance saw the furnace and the hot shot. 



11 Letter of General George Prevost, September n, 1814. 

 All the American accounts say 13; the British official account 

 had best be taken. James says only ten, but gives no author- 



