e lamentable mishap.
Lieutenant Watt, who hauled down the enemy's colours was, with two of
his men, killed by a discharge of musketry from the _Shannon's_
marines, in the belief that the conflict still continued. The
_Chesapeake_ had forty-seven killed and ninety-eight wounded, and the
_Shannon_ lost in killed twenty-four, while fifty-nine had been
wounded. It was so ascertained that on equal terms England still held
the supremacy of the seas, and the exultation in England was so great
that every right-minded man went with the government when they made
Captain Broke a baronet. The broadside guns of the _Shannon_ were 25,
of the _Chesapeake_ 25; the weight of metal in the former was 538 lbs.,
and of the latter 590 lbs.; while the _Shannon_ had 306 and the
_Chesapeake_ 376 men.

The _Chesapeake_ was carried into Halifax, where her gallant,
gentlemanly, and ill-starred commander died and was buried, with full
military honors, in the presence of all the British officers on the
station, who uncovered themselves as they laid into the grave all that
was earthly of their noble foe.

The tide of fortune on the sea had now turned in favor of Great
Britain. On the 14th of August, the _Argus_, of twenty guns, employed
in carrying out Mr. Crawford, the American Minister to France, was met
after having landed the minister off St. David's, at the mouth of the
Irish channel, by the British brig _Pelican_, of eighteen guns, more
heavily armed, though carrying fewer guns, and better manned than the
_Argus_, so that, everything considered, the vessels were tolerably
well matched. As a matter of course they fought, and the _Pelican_, one
of the improved brigs, soon out-manoeuvred and raked her antagonist.
Captain Allen, of the _Argus_, fell at the first broadside. The _Argus_
was ultimately obliged to surrender with a loss of six killed and
seventeen wounded, her opponent having only three killed and five
wounded.

It was not long after this that the British brig _Boxer_, of only
fourteen guns and sixty-six men, fell a prize to the American brig
_Enterprise_, of sixteen guns and one hundred and twenty men, but
afterwards, throughout the war, single combats, where there was even an
approach to equality, terminated in favor of the British. Captain
Blythe, of the _Boxer_, and the commander of the _Enterprise_,
Lieutenant Burrows, were buried in one grave, at Portland in Maine,
with military honors.

Thus were the favors of Mars still ba