by John Marshall

“ It is not, however, by our acknowledgments or emotions that your deserts can be expressed; they are proclaimed by the tongues, and engraven on the hearts of the people you have saved; whom a merciless enemy doomed to destruction ”

“ Nor do the testimonies of your honor cease here; even your enemies bear witness to the value of your exertions, and the importance of your victory. They tell it whenever they mention their loss and disappointments, the destruction of their shipping, and the slaughter of their men. ”

“ At the commencement of the war with France, in 1793, this officer commanded the Hawke, of 16 guns, in which sloop he escorted a fleet of merchantmen to the West Indies.
On the 2d April, 1794, he was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain; and in the following year, we find him in the Lapwing, of 34 guns and 193 men, on the North Sea station, where he remained but a short time, and was then again ordered to afford protection to the trade bound to the colonies. On the 25th Nov. 1796, Captain Barton, then lying at St. ”