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Statistics* 
Swedish Navy. — The Swedish fleet consists of 12 sail of 
the line, eight frigates, besides cutters, gun boats, &c. and there 
are two ships of the line and three frigates building. 
Portuguese Navy. — The Portuguese have eight sail of the 
line, three frigates, and four sloops, at the Brazils^ — At Lisbon 
there are some ships of war, but they are chiefly unfit for service. 
Danish Navy.— The present naval force of Denmark con- 
sists of four ships of the line, two frigates, and about 120 gun-boats. 
There are two ships of the line and three frigates on the stocks. 
Their maritime operations are chiefly carried on by flotillas of guri 
brigs, which carry heavy metal, are well manned, manoeuvred, and 
fought ; and, in a calm, are formidable even to ships of war. 
United States Navy.-— The republican navy, at present, 
consists of the following frigates Constitution, 44, Captain Hull ; 
United States, 44, Captain Decatur ; President, 44, Commodore 
Rogers; Chesapeake, 36; New-York, 36; Constellation, 36; 
Captain Bainbridge; Congress, 36, Captain Smith; Boston 32; 
Essex, 32, Captain Porter ; Macedonian, (late British,) 38 ; the 
John Adams corvette : Hornet sloop, of 1 6 guns ; Syren, Argu§, 
and Oneida brigs, of 1 6 guns ; Vixen, Enterprize, and Viper schoo- 
ners, of 12 guns ; 170 gun boats, stationed at New Orleans : and 
the Vengeance, iEtna, Vesuvius, and Spitfire bombs. 
French Navy. — In the various ports of France, Holland, and 
Italy, the French have 65 sail of the line, and 61 frigates, ready for 
sea; and 32 sail of the line, and 26 frigates, building and fitting 
out ; so that in a short time we shall have opposed to us, under 
French colours, a numerical force of 97 sail of the line, and 87 fri- 
gates : but even the ships which are pretended to be ready for a 
start, particularly those in the Scheldt, are very badly manned ; an 
^vil for which the enemy does not possess any practicable remedy 
1 Zth January') 1813, 
