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September 12th.-Chased by a frigate six hours; outsailed her.

On the 16th September, Commodore Barney, in the privateer-schooner Rossie, fell in with his Britannic Majesty's packet-ship Princess Amelia, when a severe action commenced between the two vessels at close quarters. It lasted nearly an hour, and during the greatest part of the time within pistol shot distance. Captain Barney's first lieutenant, Mr. Long, was severely wounded, six of his crew were also wounded in the conflict, but not severely, as the most of them soon after recovered. The Rossie suffered considerably in her rigging and sails, but nothing in her hull.

The loss of the Princess Amelia was, her Captain, sailing-master, and one man killed; the master's mate and six seamen wounded. The packet was terribly cut to pieces in her hull, sails and rigging.

September 16th.-Fell in with three ships and an armed brig; exchanged shot with the Commodore, received an eighteen pound shot through our quarter, wounded a man, and lodged in our pump; continued to dog and watch the above vessels four days in hopes of separating them, but in vain.

September 23d.-Spoke the private-armed schooner Globe, Captain Murphy, of Baltimore; went in pursuit of the above English vessels, but could not fall in with them.

September 25th.-Spoke a Spanish brig bound to Porto-Rico.

October 8th.-Took (in company with the Globe) the schooner Jubilee, and sent her into port.

October 9th.-Spoke a Spanish schooner from Palma for Porto-Rico.

October 10th.-Chased and spoke the privateer-schooner

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BATTLE between the SCHOONER ROSSIE, and the SHIP PRINCESS AMELIA,

on the 16th of Sept. 1812.

Rapid, of Charleston, S. C., fifty-two days out; had taken nothing.

October 22d.-Seized the ship Merrimack for a breach of the non-importation act. The result is, 3,698 tons of shipping, valued at upwards of $1,500,000, and 217 prisoners.

Brig Diamond, 220 tons, twelve guns, with a full cargo of cotton and logwood, and $2,500 in gold; sent into Salem by the Alfred, privateer.

Brig George, 270 tons, laden with sugar and cotton, sent into the same port by the Alfred, both of these vessels were from Brazil, and were valued at $120,000.

Brig Neptune, a prize to the John, of Salem, arrived. at that port.

Ship Jane, of Port Glasgow, a prize to the John, also arrived at Salem.

A schooner laden with timber, taken by the Saucy Jack, of Charleston, and given up to release the prisoners she had taken.

Sloop Louisa Ann, laden with molasses, seized and captured by a boat from the Benjamin Franklin privateer, with seven men, in Trinity Harbor, Martinique, under the guns of a battery of twelve eighteen pounders.

A GALLANT BUT UNPROFITABLE CONFLICT.

Captain Levely, of the privateer Nonsuch, of Baltimore, had a severe engagement with an English ship and schooner, off Martinique, on the 28th of September. The following is an extract of the action from the logbook of the Nonsuch:

"The Nonsuch privateer, of Baltimore, Captain Levely, carrying twelve twelve-pound carronades, and (at that time) between eighty and ninty men, on the 28th

of September, fell in with a ship and schooner under British colors, the ship carrying sixteen eighteen-pound carronades and two hundred men, including soldiers; and the schooner six four-pounders and sixty men. When within reach of the ship, she gave us a broadside. We bore down upon her and hoisted American colors, and returned ten broadsides, accompanied each time with a heavy volley of musketry, the ship and schooner keeping up a heavy fire upon us with their great guns and musketry. The engagement lasted three hours and twenty minutes, when the bolts and breachings of our guns, fore and aft, were carried away both sides. We could then only use our musketry, or we should certainly have captured them both. We dismounted several of the ship's guns, and damaged her very much in her hull and rigging. From the confusion which appeared on board, we judge that we must have killed and wounded a considerable number of men; she bore away for Martinico; we being much crippled in our sails and rigging, could not pursue her. After getting our decks cleared a little, we hauled to the northward, not only to repair our sails and rigging, but to refit gun carriages, and attend to the sick and wounded.

"During the action, we received several shot in our hull, and some two or three between wind and water, which caused the schooner to leak considerably, until we had time to plug them up and make suitable repairs.

Our crew all fought like true Americans. Officers wounded: Mr. Wilkinson, dangerously in the body, since dead; Mr. Williams, prize-master, severely in the feet. Seamen killed Samuel Christian, Lewis Riley, David McCarthy; we had also six seamen wounded.

"We subsequently learned that after the action the

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