laden with crockery ware, iron, etc., sent into Portland

by the Teazer.

Ship, laden with timber, bound for England, sent into Marblehead by the Decatur privateer.

Brig Diana from London, sent into Portland by the Dart. Three vessels captured by the Dolphin of Baltimore, and burned.

Ship John, fourteen guns, thirty-five men, four hundred tons burthen, from Demarara for Liverpool, laden with 742 bales of cotton, 230 hogsheads of sugar, 100 puncheons of rum, 50 casks and 300 bags of coffee, with a large quantity of old copper and dye-wood, worth at least $150,000, sent into Baltimore by the Comet, of that port.

men,

Ship Commerce, fourteen guns, long-nines, from four hundred to five hundred tons burthen, from Demarara for London, very richly laden with sugar, rum, cotton, coffee-a very valuable prize-sent into Portland by the Decatur, of Newburyport. The captain and several of the crew were killed by the first broadside from the privateer.

Privateer-schooner Frances, of Nassau, N. P., four guns and thirty men, a fine, fast-sailing vessel, sent into Baltimore by the Dolphin.

A small English privateer, taken by the Rapid, of Charleston, and burnt.

Brig Tor Abbey, laden with dry fish, sent into Cape Ann by the Thrasher, privateer. A valuable vessel. Schooner laden with sugar, flour, etc., an assorted cargo, sent into Portland by the Teazer, privateer.

Brig

from Madeira for London, laden with choice wine, sent into Newburyport by the Marengo, of New York.

Brig Orient, from Quebec for England, laden with timber, sent into Portland by the Teazer, privateer.

EXTRACT FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF THE SCHOONER ATLAS, CAPTAIN DAVID MAFFET.

August 3d, in latitude 37° 30', North, longitude 46° West, at half-past eight A.M., made two sail to the westward, standing to the Northeast; tacked to the southward; at half-past nine tacked to the northward; at ten A.M. beat to quarters and cleared for action.

At half-past ten, bore away for both ships, and hoisted the American ensign and pendant; at three-quarters past ten the smallest ship fired a shot at us, both ships at this time having English colors flying.

At eleven A.M., the action commenced by a broadside and musketry from the Atlas, which continued (engaging both ships at the same time) until noon, when the small ship struck her colors. We then directed the whole of our fire against the large ship, but to our utmost surprise, the small ship again opened her fire on us, although her colors were still down. We again commenced firing on her, and in a few minutes drove every man off her decks. At twenty minutes past meridian the large ship struck, and we immediately took possession of them both; one proved to be the ship Pursuit, Captain Chivers, of London, of 450 tons, sixteen guns, eight and nine pounders, with a complement of thirty-five men; the other, the ship Planter, Captain Frith, of Bristol, of 280 tons, twelve guns, twelve pounders, and fifteen men ; both with valuable cargoes of sugar, coffee, cotton and cocoa, thirty days out from Surinam, bound to London. We took out the prisoners, put a prize-master, mate and crew on board of each of them, and steered to the southward in company. During the action we had two men

killed and five wounded. Every one of the shrouds on the larboard side were shot away, some of them in two or three places; the running rigging and sails very much cut. In consequence of the disabled condition of our rigging, and the fore-yard being gone, Captain Maffet determined on convoying the prizes to the first port in the United States to refit; kept in company with the prizes until Wednesday, the 2d of September, when at half-past four A. M., we made a large ship to the eastward, standing to the southward; at half-past five she tacked, and gave chase for us. We bore down, and spoke the Pursuit, and ordered the prize-master to tack to the southward, and make the first port he could. At six spoke the Planter, and informed him that the ship in chase was probably an enemy, and ordered him to make` sail to the northward. At ten the Pursuit was out of

sight to the southward. At eleven backed the main topsail, the strange sail coming up fast with the Planter. At meridian tacked to the southward. At half-past one P.M., the frigate fired five guns at the Planter, which obliged her to bring-to. Supposing her to be a British frigate, as she kept English colors flying, we made sail to the westward. At half-past three P.M., the frigate and the prize, Planter still in sight, lying-to, the Planter with American colors flying at the mizzen peak.

The frigate alluded to in this report must have been an American, as I find it subsequently stated that both these prizes had arrived at a port in the United States.

Although the English about this period, September, 1812, captured several of our small privateers, I observe, by a New York paper, that their places were soon filled by a larger and better class, which were then fitting for