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  official letter, relative to his gallant but unfortunate action with the United States:

Mr. James, in the second edition of his Naval History, informs us, that Lieutenant Hope “was severely wounded in the leg, at the commencement, and more severely still in the head, towards the close of the battle;” – this, we have every reason to believe, is correct.

On the 27th May, 1813, and three following days, Captain Carden, his officers, and surviving crew, were tried for the loss of their ship, by a court-martial assembled on board the San Domingo 74, at Bermuda. The following is an extract of the sentence pronounced:–

Immediately after this honorable acquittal. Lieutenant Hope was appointed by Sir John B. Warren to the command of the Shelburne schooner, of 14 guns, recently taken from the Americans. During the ensuing twelve months, he drove on shore and destroyed a number of the enemy’s small