by John Marshall

“ As the Leviathan approached, and before she was in a position to fire a shot, the Neptune, at whom the Temeraire had just brought some of her foremost guns to bear, wore round and went off before the wind. Disappointed here, Captain Bayntun hauled up on the larboard tack, and presently observed that all the ships of the combined van a-head of the Santissima Trinidada, were tacking, or wearing, as if to double upon the headmost ships of the British weather column, and place them betwixt two fires. ”

“ We next find this officer, in the Drake sloop, destroying a large French privateer schooner, near Camperdown, Mar. 7, 1810. On the 9th April following, he captured the Tilsit, of 18 guns and 64 men. His post commission bears date Dec. ”