by John Marshall

“ Captain Wise allowed 10 minutes to elapse for the ships to anchor. The Granicus then filled, let fall her fore-sail, set top-gallant-sails, and, soon gaining fresh way, steered straight for a beacon that, phoenix-like, seemed to live in the hottest of the fire. With a display of intrepidity and of seamanship alike unsurpassed. Captain Wise anchored his frigate in a space scarcely exceeding her own length between the Queen Charlotte and Superb; a station of which a three decked line-of-battle ship might justly have been proud [1] . ”

“ In 1819, the Spartan visited Madeira, Dominica, Vera Cruz, Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Halifax; in July 1820, she conveyed Lord Combermere from Barbadoes to England; and we subsequently find her proceeding to the Havannah, Charlestown, and New York ”