o our anxious view when on that memorable first day of July we saw
the immortal Lawrence proudly conducting his ship to action.... The
brig _Henry_ containing the precious relics lay at anchor in the
harbor. They were placed in barges and, preceded by a long
procession of boats filled with seamen uniformed in blue jackets
and trousers, with a blue ribbon on their hats bearing the motto of
"Free Trade and Sailors' Rights," were rowed by minute strokes to
the end of India Wharf, where the bearers were ready to receive the
honored dead. From the time the boats left the brig until the
bodies were landed, the United States brig _Rattlesnake_ and the
brig _Henry_ alternately fired minute guns... On arriving at the
meeting-house the coffins were placed in the centre of the church
by the seamen who rowed them ashore and who stood during the
ceremony leaning upon them in an attitude of mourning. The church
was decorated with cypress and evergreen, and the names of Lawrence
and Ludlow appeared in gilded letters on the front of the pulpit.

It was wholly reasonable that the exploit of the _Shannon_ should arouse
fervid enthusiasm in the breast of every Briton. The wounds inflicted
by Hull, Decatur, and Bainbridge still rankled, but they were now
forgotten and the loud British boastings equaled all the tales of Yankee
brag. A member of Parliament declared that the "action which Broke
fought with the _Chesapeake_ was in every respect unexampled. It was
not--and he knew it was a bold assertion which he made--to be surpassed
by any other engagement which graced the naval annals of Great Britain."
Admiral Warren was still in a peevish humor at the hard knocks inflicted
on the Royal Navy when he wrote, in congratulating Captain Broke: "At
this critical moment you could not have restored to the British naval
service the preeminence it has always preserved, or contradicted in a
more forcible manner the foul aspersions and calumnies of a conceited,
boasting enemy than by the brilliant act you have performed. The
relation of such an event restores the history of ancient times and will
do more good to the service than it is possible to conceive."

Captain Broke was made a baronet and received other honors and awards
which he handsomely deserved, but the wound he had suffered at the head
of his boarding party disabled him for further sea duty. If the
influence of the _