saw the very arms he had so coveted on the
Liverpool docks. They had been captured by Capt. Manly.

Manly's activity proved very harassing to the British, and the
sloop-of-war "Falcon" was sent out to capture the Yankee. She fell in
with the "Lee" near Gloucester, just as the latter was making for
that port with a merchant schooner in convoy. Manly, seeing that the
Englishman was too heavy for him, deserted his convoy and ran into the
port, where he anchored, out of reach of the sloop's guns. Capt.
Lindzee of the "Falcon" stopped to capture the abandoned schooner, and
then taking his vessel to the mouth of the port, anchored her in such
a way as to prevent any escape for the "Lee." He then prepared to
capture the Yankee by boarding. The "Falcon" drew too much water to
run alongside the "Lee" at the anchorage Manly had chosen; and the
Englishman therefore put his men in large barges, and with a force of
about forty men set out to capture the schooner. Manly saw the force
that was to be brought against him, and sent his men to quarters,
preparing for a desperate resistance. The schooner was lying near the
shore; and the townspeople and militia gathered by the water-side,
with guns in their hands, prepared to lend their aid to the brave
defenders of the "Lee." As the three barges drew near the schooner,
Manly mounted the rail, and hailed them, warning them to keep off lest
he fire upon them.

"Fire, and be hanged to you," was the response of the lieutenant in
command of the assailants. "We have no fear of traitors."

So saying, the British pressed on through a fierce storm of musketry
from the deck of the schooner and from the shore. They showed no lack
of courage. The lieutenant himself brought his boat under the cabin
windows, and was in the act of boarding, when a shot from the shore
struck him in the thigh, and he was carried back to the man-of-war.
Capt. Lindzee, who had watched the progress of the fight from the deck
of the "Falcon," was greatly enraged when his lieutenant was thus
disabled; and he hastily despatched re-enforcements to the scene of
action, and directed the gunners on the "Falcon" to commence a
cannonade of the town.

"Now," said he with an oath, "my boys, we will aim at the Presbyterian
church. Well, my brave fellows, one shot more, and the house of God
will fall before you."

But the British were fairly outfought, and the outcome of the battle
was disastrous to them. A newspaper of the period