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  of every one employed merits the warmest encomiums; and I regret I cannot have it in my power to particularize them.

“The vessels captured are chiefly laden with steel, iron, and merchandize. The prisoners in all are two lieutenants, two serjeants, and fifty-six privates, of the 6th and 81st regiments, which composed part of General Marmont’s army, and distinguished themselves in the late war with Austria, at the battle of Wagram.

“I enclose returns of the killed and wounded, and have to regret four valuable marines amongst the former. I also forward the returns of officers employed on this service, with the vessels captured; and I have, &c.

(Signed)“.”

“''To Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. &c. &c. &c.''”

The loss sustained by the attacking party amounted to four men killed and eight wounded. The petty-officers, &c. employed under Lieutenant Slaughter, whose names are not given above, were Mr. Charles H. Ross, master’s-mate ; Messrs. Joseph Gape, Thomas Edward Hoste, Charles Bruce, and Cornwallis Paley, midshipmen; Mr. Samuel Jeffery, volunteer; and Mr. James Leonard Few, schoolmaster; of the Amphion: Messrs. John Miller, George Farenden, Joseph Stoney, George Fowler, William Sherwood, Charles Mackey, and Lewis Rollier, midshipmen; and Mr. John Johnson, gunner; of the Cerberus.

In Dec. 1812, Commander Slaughter was appointed to the Archer sloop, in which vessel he continued during the remainder of the war. 



made a lieutenant on the 1st Mar. 1805; and slightly wounded while commanding a sub-division of gun-boats, at the reduction of Flushing, in Aug. 1809. He obtained his present rank, together with an appointment to the Cygnet sloop, Jan. 3d, 1811; and lost that vessel, off Courantyn River, in 1815.

