e to her helm, and the first
effective broadside went crashing into the side of the nearest
British vessel. After that, the conflict was short. Though the enemy
had nearly beaten the "Alliance" in the calm, they were no match for
her when she was able to manoeuvre. Their resistance was plucky; but
when Capt. Barry came on deck, with his wound dressed, he was just in
time to see the flags of both vessels come fluttering to the deck.

The two prizes proved to be the "Atlanta" sixteen, and the "Trepassy"
fourteen. Both were badly cut up, and together had suffered a loss of
forty-one men in killed and wounded. On the "Alliance" were eleven
dead, and twenty-one wounded. As the capture of the two vessels threw
about two hundred prisoners into the hands of the Americans, and as
the "Alliance" was already crowded with captives, Capt. Barry made a
cartel of the "Trepassy," and sent her into an English port with all
the prisoners. The "Atlanta" he manned with a prize crew, and sent to
Boston; but she unluckily fell in with a British cruiser in
Massachusetts Bay, and was retaken.

Once more before the cessation of hostilities between Great Britain
and the United States threw her out of commission, did the "Alliance"
exchange shots with a hostile man-of-war. It was in 1782, when the
noble frigate was engaged in bringing specie from the West Indies. She
had under convoy a vessel loaded with supplies, and the two had hardly
left Havana when some of the enemy's ships caught sight of them, and
gave chase. While the chase was in progress, a fifty-gun ship hove in
sight, and was soon made out to be a French frigate. Feeling that he
had an ally at hand, Barry now wore ship, and attacked the leading
vessel, and a spirited action followed, until the enemy, finding
himself hard pressed, signalled for his consorts, and Barry, seeing
that the French ship made no sign of coming to his aid, drew off.

Irritated by the failure of the French frigate to come to his
assistance, Barry bore down upon her and hailed. The French captain
declared that the manoeuvres of the "Alliance" and her antagonist had
made him suspect that the engagement was only a trick to draw him into
the power of the British fleet. He had feared that the "Alliance" had
been captured, and was being used as a decoy; but now that the matter
was made clear to him, he would join the "Alliance" in pursuit of the
enemy. This he did; but Barry soon found that the fifty was so slow a