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ways at the head of their divisions and were repulsed; and it was 
not until the third attack that they carried it. The marines, to a man, 
had fallen in their place on the quarter-deck. 
The fight was renewed on the main-deck, but it was, in comparison, 
feebly sustained, most of the people having now taken refuge in the 
hold, and the ship at length surrendered. 
Lord Cochrane now ordered the boats to be manned, that he might 
pursue his plan of taking out the Maypu and some other vessels ; but 
the men were busy plundering, and the darkness and confusion ren- 
dered it impossible to enforce the order. Besides, the castles had 
begun a heavy fire upon the frigate ; and, although she had hoisted 
the same lights with the neutral ships, the Hyperion, English frigate *, 
and the Macedonia, United States’ ship of war, the firing continued ; 
so that to prevent her being damaged, her sails were set and her chain 
cables cut, and she was anchored out of gun-shot, with two of the 
largest gun-boats which Lord Cochrane had also taken. 
The enemy’s loss in killed, wounded, and drowned, was very great. 
All the officers, three of whom were wounded, were taken prisoners, 
and Captain Coig, the commander, received a severe contusion from 
a ball from the batteries ; 150 of the crew were also taken, with the 
standard of the commander-in-chief ; a considerable quantity of naval 
stores, and some treasure. The loss on the Chileno side was 15 killed 
and fifty wounded. 
Although Lord Cochrane was not able to complete the whole of 
his plan, the success he had gained surpassed all that had ever been 
done or imagined in those seas ; and, indeed, if we except his own 
actions in the service of his own country ft, no age or nation has 
* The Hyperion and Macedonia had hoisted lights to distinguish them as neutrals. 
A midshipman of the Hyperion was standing on the gangway looking on, and seeing 
Lord Cochrane’s noble bearing, clapped his hands in congratulation, and exclaimed, “ Well 
and Englishly done!” Captain S. reprimanded him, ordered him below, and threatened 
to put him under arrest! Had Lord Cochrane been an enemy, a generous man would 
have felt with the midshipman;— but a neutral and a cotntryman ! —The Macedonia 
behaved very differently. 
+ See the English Gazettes, of Aug. 1801, for the taking of the Spanish zebeck by 
the Speedy, in 1801; and from that time to Basque Roads, a series of exploits, of which 
every Englishman is proud. 
