The "Peacock" and the "Hornet." 105 



HUGH LYLE CARMICHAEL, whose deith had taken 

 place meanwhile, to the sorrow of the inhabi- 

 tants. 



On the 25th of February, 1813, the day after the 

 fight between the Hornet and the Peacock, the United 

 States frigate Chesapeake, on a cruise, passed over the 

 spot where the a6tion had taken place. After cruising 

 off Barbados and Antigua, Captain EVANS, her Com- 

 mander, steered homewards, and, on the 1 Sth of April, 

 arrived at Boston. On the 1st of June, the Chesapeake, 

 now commanded by Captain James LAWRENCE, lately 

 of the Hornet sailed forth from Boston to fight 

 the British frigate Shannon commanded by Captain 

 Broke. 



The result of the furious fight, which then took 

 place between these two fine ships, captained by 

 two most gallant commanders, is well known. As 

 the brave LAWRENCE was being carried below, on 

 receiving the wound of which he died within a 

 few days, he called out to his men, Don t vive up the 

 ship! The Chesapeake was carried into Halifax, on 

 the 6th of June, by Lieutenant Falknek, third of the 

 Shannon, and Captain LAWRENCE having died on board 

 her on the 4th, his body was taken ashore and buried 

 with full military honours. First Lieutenant WATT 

 of the Shannon being killed, and the heroic Captain 

 BROKE being disabled by his wounds, to Second 

 Lieutenant Wallis, himself a Nova Scotian by birth, 

 fell the proud honour of carrying the victorious Shan- 

 non into Halitax. And now, when six and seventy 

 years have gone by, that Lieutenant WALLIS yet lives, 

 and, as Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, G.C.B , 



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