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WashingtokCitt, July 14. Cv yjf a letter from Cptiin Porte r tO the i'-rretr?rv of tlip ruvv,

ixex Junior, July 18 U, sea

sir I have done royfeif the hnor to ! barren tDii defoUte ct anv ktlOWII.

inHrmSions rsow lef: it completely difcretionary with mc ivhrt courfe to purlue, and I determined on following that which had not only met his ipprobttion, but the ap proba;;n of the then fecrctary f the navy. I accordingly Hi aped cw courfe for the Pa ciuc ; and alter luffering greatly from fhort allowance of provisions, ami heay pales off Cape Home, (for which my ill i p and men

l were illy provided) I arrived at Valparaifo

on mc I4tb larch, 1 S I 3. J here tool: in as much j rkd berf, and ofhei proifion?, S my On p would conveniently Oow, 8t ran down the coa!i of Chili and Perue ; in thi -track I fell ir with a Peruvian co:fdir, which had en board 24 Americans as pnfonersj the crews of two wl)ale fhips, which (he hnd taken on the coaft of Chill The cap tun informed me that, as the relies of G. Britain, they would captu e all they fhould meet With, in expectation of a war between Spain ani the U. Stt?s. I conf -quently threw all his guns and immunition intot!)e lea, !iber'-tted the American, wrote a ref

pectftll l-tter to the Vice llov, explairiitig thecaufe of my proceedings which I deli ered to her captain I then proceeded for I ima, and rocaptured one of the vt fTrls as f'ie was entering the port From thence I prccceded for the Gallapagos i(lnds, where I cruized from the I7tli April, until tl e 3d Ovir. 1813; during which ti.:e I touched only onceon the c?M(t of America, which

w-23 t!:r Duroofe ct nroctirinir a fuDoIv of

t r i o rr fi fh v -.-r, is none is to be found among thofe ifiands, which are perhaps the moft

addicts you, repeatedly, "'iice I lei : the De I i ire ; hue have fcarcely a hope that one 0 v letters h"? reached you ; therefore, Confider it nectfTarV to wvtt you a brief hi ft Mrt of my proceedings lines that period 1 failed fiom the Delaware on the 27th of October, 18:C, and repaired with alldi iimce ( iresahly to inftrucions from com. Bair.bridi ) to i rrt Prays Fernando de

X 1 rxoronao,

While smonafthis group, I captured the following Britifli n,;;,?, employed chiefly in t!ie f?err!iir.eti whale fifliery, vis LXTTR OF MARQUE.

Tens. Men Guu$,pcd.far.

fca, required fome repairs to put her in a

(late to meet them, which I determined to uo. and !)rrig them to action, if 1 could meet them en nearly rqu.il terms. I proceeded, now, in company with the remainder of Oiy prizes, to the i(lnd of Nooaheevah, or Madifon& ifland, lyii ig the T,ih Ingtoo groupej difcovcrcd by a capt. Ingra ham of Bofton ; I 've l caulked am) com pletf !y Overhauled my (hip, made a new fct ot water cuh;, ht-r eld ones being entirely decayed, and took on board from my prises provifions fnd (lores for upwards of tout months, and failed for the coafl of Chili on the 1 2 th Dec. 18U. Previous to failing 1 ft cured the Seringapatsm, Greenwich, and fir A Hammond, under the guns of a battcry, which 1 erecled for their protection; (after ta!:ir.g pn(T. tiion of this fine ifland fol the Uo State:;, and eftabliflling the inofl friendly intercourfe with the native?) I left them untler the charge cflt. Gamble of the marines, with 21 mm- with orders to repair to Valparaifo i.fier certain period I arrived on the coafl ol Chili on the 11

J in 1314, looker into Co ntiraifo. foud at (;o.h 1

I was anchored with the EiTer, my armed prize the EtTex Junior, under the command 01 It. Downes, on the look uu: off the har bur ; tut, contrary to the courtV 1 hot' he would porfue, com- Hillyar brot ith him the Cherub (loop of var, mounting 2c5 giins, 18 52 pound cai-ri bades, 8 '24,'?., & 2 long 9's on the qmrter de k nO fore calllr, md a complement of 180 nv 1 The force of the Phoebe is as folU wa, 20 long ) pountiers, 1 6 32 pound c rronnacit-3 one howl tse r, -n.i lix 'J pounders in the

ill 53 (runs, and a com element of

o r 1 making a force of 8 1 guns Sc

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MontezumSi

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tio f ciiiCi arrived

eacn p tee on the ttay appointed to mt 1 v. On my paCfa e from port Frays Fernando de Koronho, I 1 -".ired his B t 11c ma jelly s picket Noc.ou, and afi laking out about I l.OUOl (terltng in fpec fei I her under command of it Finch, I America I cruised off xiio de Janeiro, I wit Cape Frio, untit the l&lh Jan. 181 hearinc frettoently nt t!:-: commodore O 1 i '

veu Is from Bahia I hue captured but I .1 ! t il T-. 1

me icnr wit?i niaes ar u z,w ; l ici.; net

Rio, I he Montaarue, the .un. Ih:n,

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roiicy, ( reorcfianns Greenwich, Atlantic, R fe. lie Clor, Catharine, Seringapatsm; Charlton, New Zealand, : :r A. Hammond,

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3465 302 107 1 As io"r of thole fliips were cao'urecl by J its, and others by prizes, my ofTirers snd

(1 had feveral opportunities of mewing r gallantry

The Rofe and Charlton wei

c. n by the Ml M pril, oO Helen

proceeded to the ifl-tnd 01 St Catherines, ,L.,,l 1 , t- fi i 1 .nf i'it p' 'Ce ot rriiOrrvivs , -i I :?'. .5 o 1 the m -l I.kely to fup ily my wants rr m a;.d a: the fame time anord me that fecrecy necefTary to enable mr to elude the BHtilh fhipl of war on thecoaft, bt pxpefted there. 1 here c.iivl procure only w od, water and t m, and . few bsgt 0 lii ; und hearitjg of tha com. aAi n with :hr iva, the cp tore ol the Hornet by the Montague, and of a contlderable sug lentst n of the Hri. tlfll force on the C aft and rl feveral bcior in purfait of see 1 found it necelfary to get to as foon as poth'.i. I now, agreeably to tne eom. plait, r I ,rd to the Southward, k r uv' the e-i r " is K; de U PI .ta i n. that Bttenos vrrs was in a lUte of H I v it H) S r al i not fupply oe wants, and that the government of Mootetiedo v4j vc inimical tout l'..c commodota'i

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c HeAor, Catharine snd to Valparaifo, where the PolicyfGecrinanna I f n l r America ; the a (lore fhtpi to contain her prises, necet7.iv for I i c . now c 1 1 1 r d 1 1 1 e Ife s with 20 guns, and avc

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ftlparaifo, and on his rt tui

ic;teis, intormmsf metnai a iquacren una

er the command a com James I ftiiy. r, conGHing of the frigate hcebe, c I 6 guns, the Raccoon T.d Chetub t' iops t i war, a llorc fi",p ot 20 guns, had failed on the 6th of July for this few Tl e R -.croon s Cherub had been iersii me fome time on a a a i r - I . i

tr.e coai; ot lirazil, oc O.i tnc.r return irom i thetf cru r, j a.ed tlie fquadron lent in fearch of me to the Pacific My (hips, as I may uc luppofcd, aftCl Lfcii1; v.zir a )c-r at

that fea h not beer: hea urparti;re, and were lup;

endeavoring to double (iape Horn I had Completely broken np the Briti'h navigation in the Pacific ; the veGT- i which had not been Captured by me, were laic! up and dare not venture out. 1 had afforded the rnoft ample protection io our own vef fels, which r;ere, or my ariival,verv numerous and unprotected The valuable whale fi Tnery there ia entirely deftroyed, and the acu-tl injury we have done them may he rt timated at two and a half millions ofdol lars, independent of the eprntes the veiTeli in fearch of mc. They iae Kjrmfh ed me ampty.wtth fails, cordage, cables, ni hors, provifions, medicines, and .lores of every defcription ; and t!ir RopS on board them iiave furnifhed tloathirg fr t'ue tra. men. We had in fat lived on th.e enemy fince I have bfcen in that f?a, every prize having proved well lound licre fhip for me. I had not yet been under the neceffity i if drawing bilis on the department for any hjeCt, ana had been enabled to mr!c conidei ble advances to try ofTiccri and crew on aecount of pay T r the unexampled time we had kept the fea, mvcrew had continued remirkrtblv heslthy : I h-.d but one cafe 01 the fcurvv. snd had loft only the following men by death, viz : John S Cowan, lieut ; Robert Miller, forgeon ; Levi Holms, old teaman : Td ward Sweeny, ditto ; Samuel Groee, learn "i ; fas. Sp flf rd, gunners mate ; Benjamin Geers fct John Rogers, qr. gunners ; Andrew Mahan, corp of marine S j Lev;; Pric private of marines. 1 had done stl the Injury that could b don- the Britifh com:nerre in the Pacific, Rill hoped to finalise niv crude by hT.ieti inp; more fplendid before leaving that i'-.i. 1 thot' it not improbable that com. Hiltysr m;i-h: ; ive kept his arrival lVcret. ind bel rving that he would tVck me at alpan i is the moft likely place to find ;ne, I ti;ereirre determined tocro fe about '.!iat place, and Riould I fail of meeting him hoped to be Compenfated by t!ie capture of fome merchant fliips, faid to be expected from England

PI e Phcebe, agreeably to my expeflati

320 me

500 men ; in addition to which

on board the crew ot an Englifh letter of m3rqur lying in po.t both (hips h d picked irews, and wrrr fent into the Pacific, ill company with the Racoon of 22 guns and a ft.'ic- flnpot 20 gun?, for the exprefspur r r r .mm .

ot iresii v the tltex, anJ werr prepa

red With 11 .gs bearing the motto, God and country; britifh fail rs be fl rights; traitors offend both.' This was intendtd as reply to my mortr, p,ee tr de and bailors rights,' under the erroneous impreflion that my crew were chiefly Englifhcaen, or to cot nterad ;t t ff cl on th'ir own crews. 1 he torce of the T.ilex wa: ! G guns, forty 32 pound carronad s, and Qxtong I2's, be her creW which had boi much reduced by r.ri'r?, am. r J to ooly . "5 mm. Tho EfT x Junior, which wai ii tended thiefiy nn; a ttorc i! ip, mounted SO g ns, ten 18 pout;d carronadci, jnd ten Ihort 6'.-, witi only f0 men on hoard. n reply to 'heir motto, T. wrote at my mizen k G d, (i r country Sc liberty; tyrant-, offend them.1

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rp fe of blorh-

aumg me. where they cruifed tor neyr fix weeks, during which time 1 ende .vorcd to provoke a challenge, and fi quently, but inenedusliy, to biing the Phcebe alone to action, firft With both my (hips, and afterward: with try Tingle fi ip, with both crews on board I was frveral times under wayt and auertamed that 1 had greatly the seU vantage in point of failing, and once fucceetlrd in cloflng witliin gn (hot of the Phcebe, and commenced a fire on her, whm (he ran down for the Cheroh, which was 2 miles to leeward ; this exrited fome furprize and rxpreflipm of i: uignation, as previous to my getting under way, the fl.'od r-flf the port, relied her motto tl-tg, and fired Bgon to windward. Com. Hillyar teemed determ'nrd to avoid a cont-il on nearly t-c;:?.! terms. Sc from Ids extreme prudence) in keeping: both hi; Hop-sever after cont O I fi!tlr within hail of ci h other there were

. a a

U 1 getting trf ir poc iin went off the port for the

any aclv

from

cntrer Ray in

terrniried to pur to f which 111 u'd i ffer ;

pe? rr rt T tl e firft I w

my rou':t y tr fore rj rnpportor i"-

Rrongly

indoci

certain intelligrnee that the J3, and two ochcr f ieates,

. s the mores I h d gained Tn?us, rirf I d failed f r

t'nat fea in purfuit of m'- ; and 1 had reaiioa to expect t!ie arrival of the Racoon frr rn the N V. coaft of Anwrtea, nii-t? (he had been fent for thr pto v-f- of deftroyintf our f.n eftabhihment on rh- C ilumhia rendeavous v.-? pp inted fr.r the r.fTfx Tu jT nior, and every at rart-met it made r.u -',!-inr-, and I intended to let hem r h-fe rreofF to crive the ErTrx Jonior an opportunity of p; - . O o iii.- iHth March, the d'-y

n was f.rmed. tfi rom the fou toward

wh-n f parted mv larbosrd cshi- and dra-

aftef this determioat: wind raaae r n to h.w

erect my it board

direct Iv out to fea.

a)-:, cam: lj leek tnz at Valparaifo, where j Not u mpjBcnt to tc L i hi gcuir.;