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ilTst 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.) £t James Hillyar. 
“ 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 Phcetie, of thirty- 
six guns and three hundred and twenty men, James Hillyar, Esq. command¬ 
er, and the sloop-of-war Cherub, mounting twenty-eight guns, and one hun¬ 
dred and eighty men, commanded by T. Tucker, Esq. 
Killed in action , and have since died of their wounds. 
James P. Wilmer, first lieut. 
John G. Cowel, acting 3d lieut. 
Henry Kennedy, boatswain’s 
mate. 
Wm. Smith, do. 
Francis Bland, qr. master. 
Rheul Marshall, qr. gunner. 
Thomas Baily, boats yeo. 
John Adams, cooper. 
Wm. Johnston, carp. crew. 
Henry Vickars, do. 
Zach. Mayfield, arm crew. 
William Christopher, captain 
forecastle. 
Nathaniel Jones, captain mast. 
Joseph Thomas, captain main¬ 
top. 
John Russel, do. 
Francis Green, captain’s ser¬ 
vant. 
George Hill, ward-room cook. 
George Wyne, seaman, 
Joseph Ferrell, ditto, 
Samuel Miller, ditto, 
Thomas Johnson, ditto, 
Philip Thomas, ditto, 
Thomas Nordyke, ditto, 
William White, ditto, 
Thomas Mitchell, ditto, 
William Lee, ditto, 
Peter Allan, ditto, 
John Aivison, ditto, 
John C. Kilian, ditto, 
Benjamin ilazen, ditto, 
Peter Johnston, ditto, 
Thomas Brannock, ditto, 
Thomas Brown, ditto, 
Cornelius Thompson, ditto,- 
John Lings, ditto, 
George Douglass, ditto r 
