APPENDIX. 



EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM COMMODORE HILLYAR TO ME. 



Phahe, April 4th, 1814. 



My dear sir, 



Neither in our conversations, nor in the 

 accompanying letter, have I mentioned jour sword. 

 Ascribe my remissness in the first instance to forgetfulness ; 

 I consider it only in my servant's possession with my own, 

 until the master may please to call for it; and although I 

 omitted, at the moment of presentation, from my mind 

 being much engrossed in attending to professional duties, 

 to offer its restoration, the hand that received will be most 

 gladly extended to put it in possession of him who wore it 

 so honourably in defending his country's cause. 



Believe me, my dear sir, very faithfully yours, 

 (Signed) James Hillyarj 



Captain Porter, 



A return of the killed, wounded, and missing, on board 

 the late United States frigate Essex, of thirty-two guns 

 and two hundred and fifty-five men, David Porter, Esq. 

 commander, in an action fought on the 28th of March, 

 1814, in the port of Valparaiso, with the British frigate 

 Phcebe, of thirty-six guns and three hundred and twenty 

 men, James Hillyar, Esq. commander, and the sloop of 

 war Cherub, mounting twenty-eight guns, and one hundred 

 and eighty men, commanded by T. Tucker, Esq. 



Killed in action, and have since died of their wounds, 



James P. Wilmer, first lieut. George Hill, ward-ioQm 

 John G. Cowel, acting 3d cook. 



lieutenant. George Wyne, seaman^ 



Henry Kennedy, boatswain's Joseph Ferrell, ditto, 



mate. Samuel Millerj ditto, 



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