Southern District of New- York, ss. 



BE IT REMEMBERED, That on tiie sixth day of July, in the forty-seventh year cf 

 fhe Independence of the United States of America, Charles Wiley, of the said District, 

 hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, 

 in the words following, to wit: 



"A Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean, by Captain David Porter, in the 

 United States Frigate Essex, in the years 1P12. 1813, and 1814. Second Edition. To 

 which is now added, the Transactions at Valparaiso, from the period of the Author's arrival, 

 until the Capture of the Essex; the Fate of the Party left at Madison's Island, under Lieut, 

 (now Major) Gamble ; and an Introduction, in which the Charges contained in the Quar- 

 terly Review, of the First Edition of this Journal, are examined, and the Ignorance, Preju- 

 dice, and Misrepresentations of the Reviewer exposed. Embellished with Engravings." 



In conformity to the Act of the Con^fress of the United Slates, entitled "An Act for the 

 encouragement .f Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and liooks, to the 

 •authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to 

 an .-\ct, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the encouragement 

 of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprie- 

 tors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereo*. 

 to the arts of desiffninp, eng'raving, and etching historical and othet- prints." 



JAMES DILL, 

 Clerk of the .Sonthern District of Nev»york 



