rtii, 1814: Between the American
vessel Peacock and the English vessel Epervier, March 29, 1814._)
FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).

LEWIS WARRINGTON was born in Williamsburgh, Virginia, November 3,
1782. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1800, and served under
Commodore Preble in the Tripolitan campaign; was lieutenant, 1807; and
master-commandant, 1813. He sailed from New York in March, 1814, (p. 198)
in command of the sloop-of-war Peacock, and on the 29th of the
same month took the British brig-of-war Epervier, Captain Wales, for
which gallant deed he received the thanks of Congress and a gold
medal. He was promoted to the rank of captain in November of the same
year, and subsequently served on the Naval Board. In 1842 he became
chief of the ordnance and hydrographic bureau of the Navy Department,
in which capacity he died in Washington, October 12, 1851.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolution of Congress Voting Medals to Captain Warrington, etc._

_Resolved unanimously by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled_: That the
President of the United States be requested to present to Captain
Lewis Warrington, of the sloop-of-war Peacock, a gold medal, with
suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal,[94] with like
emblems and devices, to each of the commissioned officers, and a
sword to each of the midshipmen, and to the sailing-master of
said vessel, in testimony of the high sense entertained by
Congress of the gallantry and good conduct of the officers and
crew, in the action with the British brig Epervier, on the 29th
day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
fourteen, in which action the decisive effect and great
superiority of the American gunnery were so signally displayed.

[Footnote 94: The silver medals are copies of the
one in gold to Captain Warrington.]

Approved October 21, 1814.

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_Captain Warrington to the Secretary of the Navy._

To the Honourable United States sloop Peacock, at sea,
William JONES, Latitude 27 deg. 47', longitude 89 deg..
Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. April 29th, 1814.

Sir: I have the honour to inform you that we have this morning
captured, after an action of 42