by John Marshall

“ He found the enemy much stronger than was expected, consisting of seven large gun-boats, each mounting one eighteen-pounder in the bow, three smaller gun-vessels, with a four-pounder in the bow, and fourteen sail of merchant-vessels under their convoy, four of which had guns in the bow also. ”

“ I regret to say we have suffered severely, though not so much as might have been expected from the superiority of force, and the obstinacy of the contest. Two seamen and one marine killed, five seamen and one marine wounded. ”