4
Bainbridge's report is in the Captains' Letters. Navy Department, Jan. 3, 1813. It will be found also in Niles' Register, vol. iii. p.
1
Captains' Letters. Navy Department.
2
Ibid., Bainbridge, Oct. 13, 1812.
3
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 25.
4
Bainbridge's report is in the Captains' Letters. Navy Department, Jan. 3, 1813. It will be found also in Niles' Register, vol. iii. p. 410. Both give extracts from Bainbridge's journal, which is very full on the subject of manœuvres and times. The British account will be found in the Naval Chronicle, vol. xxix. pp. 403-408, from which the plan of the battle is copied.
5
James' Naval History, edition 1824, vol. v. p. 313.
6
Bainbridge in a private letter speaks of the men looking forward to prize money for the "Guerrière" on their return. Niles' Register, vol. iii. p. 411.
7
Lawrence's Report of these transactions is in Captains' Letters, March 19, 1813. It will be found also in Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 84.
8
Naval Chronicle, vol. xxviii. p. 305.
9
Admiralty to Warren, British Records Office.
10
Niles' Register, vol. iii. p. 383.
11
Captains' Letters.
12
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 159. The Admiralty's letter to Warren to institute this blockade is dated March 25. British Records Office.
13
Niles' Register, vol. v. p. 264.
14
Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxi. p. 464.
15
Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxi. p. 475.
16
Captains' Letters.
17
American State Papers, Naval Affairs, vol. i. p. 280.
18
Captain Evans' Report, April 10, 1813. Captains' Letters.
19
Captains' Letters.
20
Ibid, Dec. 17, 1812.
21
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 119. Naval Chronicle, vol. xxix. p. 501.
22
March 17, 1813. Captains' Letters.
23
March 17, 18, and 21. Ibid.
24
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 222.
25
Columbian Centinel.
26
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 117.
27
Captains' Letters.
28
Message of the Governor of Rhode Island, May 5, 1813.
29
Niles' Register, vol. iv. pp. 200, 209. There were reported in Cadiz at this time 160,000 barrels of flour, unsold. The Columbian Centinel (Feb. 17) speaks of the Lisbon market as deplorable.
30
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 150.
31
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 101.
32
Ibid., p. 117.
33
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 584. France in the same period had seized five hundred and fifty-eight.
34
Naval Chronicle, vol. xxix. p. 497. The following extract from an American journal may have interest as indicating the extent of the British convoy movement. "American brig 'Hazard,' arrived at New York from Madeira, June 5, reports: 'April 11, arrived at Funchal the outward bound East India and Brazil fleets, forty sail, under convoy. Sailed April 12. April 21, arrived outward bound Cork fleet, one hundred and eighty sail convoyed by a seventy-four, a frigate, and a sloop.' April 30, sailed from Jamaica, three hundred merchantmen, under convoy of a seventy-four, two frigates and a sloop." (Columbian Centinel, of Boston, June 9, 1813.)
35
Murdoch's History of Nova Scotia, vol. iii. p. 351.
36
Captains' Letters, April 13, 1813.
37
Ibid., May 22.
38
Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 134.
39
Letter of Governor Winder, April 26, 1813. Niles' Register, vol. iv. p. 204.
40
Yeo to Croker, May 26, 1813. Admiralty In-Letters, Records Office.
41
Captains' Letters, Navy Department.
42
American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. p. 439.
43
Between July, 1812, and March 25, 1813, Prevost received re-enforcements amounting in all to 2,175 regulars. His total force then, for all Canada, excluding militia, was 9,177; of which 2,000 were provincial corps. British Records Office.
44
American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. p. 441.
45
Chauncey to Navy Department, March 8, 12, and 16, 1813. Captains' Letters.
46
American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. p. 442.
47
Captains' Letters.
48
Captains' Letters, Nov. 5, 1814.
49
Captains' Letters, May 7, 1813.
50
Ibid., May 15.
51
Canadian Archives. C. 678, p. 332.
52
American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. p. 445.
53
Ibid., p. 449. Armstrong's italics.
54
Barclay's Narrative before the British Court Martial on the Battle of Lake Erie. British Records Office.
55
Prevost to Bathurst, Canadian Archives.
56
Mackenzie's Life of Perry, vol. i. p. 148.
57
Barclay's Narrative.
58
Brown's and Prevost's Reports of this affair may be found in Niles' Register, vol. iv. pp. 260, 261. That of Yeo is in the Canadian Archives; M. 389, 6, p. 22.
59
Captains' Letters, June 11, 1813.
60
Captains' Letters.
61
The account of these transactions is summarized from American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. pp. 445-449. For Vincent's report of the Stony Creek affair see Cruikshank's Documentary History of the Campaign on the Niagara Frontier, 1813, Part II, p. 8.
62
Smyth's Précis of Wars in Canada, p. 137.
63
Scott's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 94.
64
American State Papers, Military Affairs, vol. i. pp. 450, 451.
65
Formerly the "Prince Regent."
66
Yeo's Report of the Vessels on the Lakes, July 15, 1813. British Records Office.
67
Woolsey to Chauncey, June 20 and 21, 1813. Captains' Letters.
68
Chauncey to the Department, July 5, 1813. Captains' Letters.
69
Captains' Letters. Navy Department MSS.
70
"History of the Royal Navy," edited by Sir W.L. Clowes, vol. iii. p. 411.
71
That