after the victory he breathed his last.-Captain Blythe, the commander of the Boxer, also fell in the commencement of the action, having received a cannon shot through the body. His remains, in compaBurrows, were brought

ny with those of lieutenant

to Portland, where the two commanders were interred, side by side, with military honours.

The Boxer was so much damaged in her sails, rigging, spars, hull, &c. as to render it difficult to carry her into port. The Enterprize received but trifling injury. On an examination of the prize, she was adjudged wholly to the captors, agreeably to law, as a vessel of superior force.

Soon after the arrival of the Enterprize and her prize at Portland, the bodies of the two commanding officers, lieutenant Burrows and captain Blythe, were brought on shore in ten oared barges, rowed at minute strokes by masters of ships, accompanied by most of the barges and boats in the harbour, while minute guns were fired from the two vessels. A grand procession was then formed, the corpse of lieutenant Burrows preceding, and the interment took place with all the honours that the civil and military authorities at the place, and the great body of the people, could bestow. During the procession forts Preble and Scammel, (names dear to their country,) fired minute guns.

It is worthy of record that the crew of the Boxer were permitted to march in the late procession at Portland, when their late captain was interred. Such was not the case with the crew of the Chesapeake.

1

The following documents we think will be read with more satisfaction than any thing we could write on the same subject; especially the letter from lieutenant M'Call, the officer on whom the command of the Enterprize devolved after lieutenant Burrows was rendered incapable of directing the action.

Copy of a letter from captain Hull to the Secretary of the Navy, Portland, September 7, 1813.

SIR, I had the honour last evening to forward' you by express, through the hands of commodore Bainbridge, a letter received from Samuel Storer, Esq. navy agent at this place, detailing an account of the capture of the British brig Boxer by the United States brig Enterprize.

I now have to inform you that I left Portsmouth this morning, and have this moment arrived, and, as the mail is closing, I have only time to enclose you the report of lieutenant M'Call, of the Enterprize, and to assure you that a statement of the situation of the two vessels as to the damage they have received, &c. shall be forwarded as soon as surveys can be made. The Boxer has received much damage in her hull, masts and sails, indeed it was with difficulty she could be kept afloat to get her in. The Enterprize is only injured in her masts and sails. I have the honour to be, &c.

ISAAC HULL.

The Hon. WM. JONES, Secretary of the Navy.

United States brig Enterprize, Portland, September 7, 1813

SIR,-In consequence of the unfortunate death of lieutenant-commandant William Burrows, late commander of this vessel, it devolves on me to acquaint you with the result of the cruise. After sailing from Portsmouth on the 1st instant, we steered to the eastward; and on the morning of the 3d, off Wood Island, discovered a schooner, which we chased into this harbour, where we anchored. On the morning of the 4th, weighed anchor and swept out, and continued our course to the eastward. Having received information of several privateers being off Manhagan, we stood for that place; and on the fol.lowing morning, in the bay near Penguin Point, discovered a brig getting under way, which appeared to be a vessel of war, and to which we immediately gave chase. She fired several guns and stood for us, having four ensigns hoisted. After reconnoitering and discovering her force, and the nation to which she belonged, we hauled upon a wind to stand out of the bay, and at three o'clock shortened sail, tacked to run down with an intention to bring her to close action. At twenty minutes after three, P. м. when within half pistol shot, the firing commenced from both, and after being warmly kept up, and with some manoeuvring, the enemy hailed and said they had surrendered, about four, P. M.-their colours being nailed to the masts, could not be hauled down. She proved to be his Britannick majesty's brig Boxer, of fourteen guns, Samuel Blythe, Esq. commander, who fell in the early part of the engagement, having re

ceived a cannon shot through the body. And I am sorry to add that lieutenant Burrows, who had gallantly led us into action, fell also about the same time by a musket ball, which terminated his existence in eight hours.

The Enterprize suffered much in spars and rigging and the Boxer in spars, rigging and hull, having many shots between wind and water.

It would be doing injustice to the merit of Mr. Tillinghast, second lieutenant, were I not to mention the able assistance I received from him during the remainder of the engagement, by his strict attention to his own division and other departments. And of the officers and crew generally, I am happy to add, their cool determined conduct have my warmest approbation and applause.

As no muster roll that can be fully relied on has come into my possession, I cannot exactly state the number killed and wounded on board the Boxer, but from information received from the officers of that vessel, it appears there were between twenty and twenty-five killed and fourteen wounded. Enclosed is a list of the killed and wounded on board of the Enterprize. I have the honour to be, &c.

EDWARD R. M'CALL, Senior Officer.

ISAAC HULL, Esq. commanding naval officer on the eastern station.

A CARD.-Captain Hull, with the officers and crew of the United States brig Enterprize, are deeply impressed with the readiness and alacrity with

which the inhabitants of Portland, in their civil and military departments, assembled to do honour to the memory of the brave lieutenant William Burrows, late commander of the Enterprize, who fell in the gallant action with his Britannick majesty's brig Boxer, which she captured and brought into this port ; and beg they will receive their grateful acknowledgments for their very handsome tribute of respect exhibited in their attendance on the funeral of that brave officer, as well as that of his gallant competitor, captain Samuel Blythe, late commander of the Boxer, who fell in the same action, and to whom equal honours were paid in every respect, in their funeral obsequies, exhibiting to the world an evidence of that character which the Americans are proud to possess, of showing every tribute of respect to a brave enemy who has fallen in combat, and of extending to those in their power every mark of liberality and comfort consistent with their situation as prisoners.

Captain Hull, with the officers and crew of the Enterprize, embrace the present occasion to express the sense which they entertain of the prompt attention and of the active and humane exertions of Samuel Storer, Esq. the United States navy agent at Portland, in having every accommodation provided for the wounded on board the United States brig Enterprize as well as those on board the Boxer, between whom no distinction was made. And they likewise beg the physicians of Portland who have been so kind as to afford the most prompt and am