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to fight their cousins of the Old Home. John Bull 

 had reason to be proud of his family. 



The Constitution had suffered so much in her light 

 with the Java, that Commodore BAINBRIDGE found it 

 necessary to return home, without delay, and sailed for 

 the North on the 6th of January, 18 13. The Hornet 

 remained to cruise off the coast of Brazil in quest of 

 British ships. She was a sloop of war, rigged as a ship, 

 carried 20 guns, and was very strongly built. Her 

 commander was James LAWRENCE, of New Jersey, 

 afterwards the brave captain of the Chesapeake in her 

 famous fight with the Shannon. He had been one of 

 the gallant band who had, in 1803, under DECATUR, 

 destroyed the Philadelphia, and he had taken part in the 

 bombardment of Tripoli. His First Lieutenant was 

 John Templer Shubrick of South Carolina, one of 

 four brave brothers who have all left a name in the naval 

 history of the United States. SHUBRICK had been in 

 the Chesapeake in her affair with the Leopard in 1807. 

 He had also fought under HULL in the Constitution, 

 when the Guerriere was captured, and under BAINBRIDGE 

 in the same Old Ironsides, when the Java was taken. 

 Lieutenant STEWART, David CONNOR, of Pennsylvania, 

 and JOHN Thomas NEWTON, of Virginia, were the other 

 lieutenants. BENJAMIN COOPER, of New Jersey, pro- 

 bably a relative of the author of The Last of the Mohi- 

 cans % served as a midshipman. Disturbed by the appear- 

 ance at St. Salvador of the British ship Montague, of 

 74 guns, the Hornet shifted her cruising ground. Near 

 Pernambuco she captured the English armed merchant- 

 man, Resolution, of 10 guns, and took £23,000 in specie 

 in her. After cruising off Maranham, the Hornet ran 



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