by John Marshall

“ At a quarter past two, his antagonist having dropped astern, Captain Faulknor ordered another hawser to be got up, with which he lashed the French frigate to his quarter, and whilst in the act of doing so, was shot through the heart by a musket-ball. On his death, the command naturally devolved on Lieutenant Watkins, who continued the action in a manner that did him immortal honor.
The Blanche, having only her fore-mast standing, now paid off before the wind; towing, and plying with incessant and well-directed vollies of musketry, her equally determined opponent. ”

“ At half past twelve o’clock, after some manoeuvring and an exchange of broadsides, when passing on opposite tacks, a most bloody and desperate action was commenced within pistol-shot; and at one A.M., Captain Faulknor ran the Blanche across the enemy’s bows, and lashed the bowsprit of the latter to the capstern of his own ship. A brisk fire was now kept up from such guns as could be brought to bear, and musketry, which the enemy returned from his quarterdeck guns, run in a-midships and pointed fore and aft, also from small arms in his tops and elsewhere. ”

“ He was superannuated, with the rank of Rear-Admiral, June 11, 1814.
In 1809, our officer published a work entitled, “The Young Naval Hero; or Hints to Parents and Guardians, on educating and preparing Young Gentlemen for his Majesty’s Navy,” 8vo. ”