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The Life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry xO^x :> Av •^ .^ '/ ,^ G ^ V* ^. c>' ^-^ ^ . A^ T H E LIFE "^7^ ov COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY. BT ALEX. SLIDELL MACKENZIE, U.S.N. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. IL NEW-YORK; HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFJ-STREET. 353 5nte.red, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840. hy Hakter & Hrothers, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER X. Page erry returns to Detroit.—Joint Proclamations oj Harrison and Perry. —Reception through' out the United States of the News of the Vic- tory. — Letter from the Secretary of the Navy. —Authorized to Parole Barclay.—Promoted to Post -captaincy. —Leave to return to New- port.— Sailsfor Putin Bay.—Receives Bar- clay. —Arrives at Erie.—Reception there. — No Notice taken of Captain Elliott. — His Discontent. — Complains to General Harri- son.—Interview between Perry and Captain Elliott, — Perry^s Departure from Erie. — Captain ElUotVs Efforts to obtain Certificates, —Letter from the Officers of the Niagara.— Certificatefrom Lieutenant Turner. —Mr. Ma- grath^s Publication. — Overtures to Messrs. Macdonald, Brownell, and Champlin. — Over- tures to British Offcers. —Reasons assigned by Captain Elliott for their Hostility. — Story of throwing overboard Mottofag.—Duels. — Difficulties among Crews. — Barclay^s Feel" ings towards Perry 9 • VI CONTENTS. CHAPTER XL Paga Pernios Homeward Journey. — Reception in the Villages. — At Ulica. — Schenectady. — Al- hany. —Memoir of Alexander Perry.—Re- ception in Connecticut.—Providence. —New. port. — Visits New- York.—Entertainments.— Presidents Notice of the Battle. — Honours and Rewards from Congress.—Prize Money, — Visit to Washington. — Reception. — En- tertainment at Baltimore. — Honours from Pennsylvania. — Return to Newport. — Visit to Boston.—Review. —Entertainment. — Af' fair of the Nimrod. —Appointed to the Java. —Burning of Washington.—Perry commands a Battery on the Potomac,—Annoys the En- emy in their Descent. —Attack on Baltimore, — Equipment of Flying Squadrons. — Per- ry Appointed to One. — Instructions for his Cruise. —Peace with England 52 CHAPTER Xn. Algerine Hostilities, — Congress declares War. —Decatur sent to the Mediterranean. — Pros- ecutes the War vigorously. — Makes Peace. — Perry resumes Command of the Java.— Sails from Baltimore. — Proceeds to New- York. — Project of a Voyage of Discovery. — Perry declines subordinate Employment in it. — Java ordered to the Mediterranean. — Touches at Newport.—Boisterous Passage,— CONTENTS. Vn Page A Man overboard. — Main topmast carried away. — Arrival at Malaga. — At Malwn. —Squadron visits Algiers. —Our threatened Hostilities. —Pernfs Intervieiv with the Dey, —Pacific Termination. — Tripoli. — Syracuse, —Messina. — Palermo. — Tunis.— Gibraltar, —Arrival of Commodore Chauncey. —Naples. — Courts Martial. —Messina. — Dijiculty laith Heath. — Tripoli. — Tunis. — Algiers. — Lieu- tenant Forrest rescued from Drowning. — Gibraltar. — Mahon. — Trials of Perry and Heath. — Return Home. — Smallpox. — Treat, ment of Sick. —Perry resumes Command at Newport.— Tribute Respect of from Officers , 93 CHAPTER XIII. f rrry employed on Surveys. — Revival of Im Difficulty with Captain Heath, — Assailed by the Press. —He determines to meet him. —Re- fuses to return his Fire. —Hostile Demonstra' Hon of Captain Elliott. — Perry^s Forbear- ance. — Correspondence between Captain Eh liott and Perry. — Perry prefers Charges against Captain Elliott. —Not acted on by the Government.— Captain Heath challenges Per. ry. — Is arrested in Rhode Island. — Perry — proceeds— to Washington. Returns to New- York, Duel between Perry and Heath . 151 VIU CONTENTS. CHAPTER XIV. Peg* Comfortable situation of Perry. — Ordered to South America. — Object of Mission. —Pro- ceeds to Washington —Receives Instructions from State Department. —Repairs to Annap- alts. — Hoists his fag on board the John Adams. — Joined by Schooner Nonsuch, — Sails for the Orinoco. —Arrives off Barba- does,—Enters Orinoco.—Arrival at Angos- tura. — Commencement of his Negotiations,— Unfavourable Feelings towards the United States. —Extracts from Perry^s Note-book. — Partially succeeds in his Mission.—Departure from Angostura.—Attacked with Yellow Fe- ver. —Dies. —Is buried in Port Spain. —Im- pression caused by his Death. —His Family provided for. — Remains removed to New- port, —His Character 184 B • OLIVER HAZARD PERRY. CHAPTER X. Perry returns to Detroit. — Joint Proclamations of Harrison and Perry. —Reception of the Neics of the Victory. — Letter from the Secretary of the Navy.— Authorized to Parole Barclay. —Promoted to Post-captaincy. —Leave to return to Newport. — Sails for Put-in Bay. —Receives Barclay. — Ar. rives at Erie. — Reception there. —No Notice taken of Elliott. — His Discontent. — Complains to Gener. al Harrison. — Interview between Perry and El- liott. — Perry^s Departurefrom Erie. —Elliotts Ef- forts to obtain Cert/fcates. —Letterfrom the Officers if the Niagara. — Certificate from Lt. Turner.— Mr. MagraUCs Publication. —Overtures to Messrs. Macdonald, Brownell, and Champlin. — Overtures lo British Officers. —Reasons assigned by Captain Elliott for their Hostility. — Story of throwing overboard Motto fag.— Duels. — Difficulties among Crews. — Barclay''s Feelings toivards Perry. On the seventh of October Perry returned to Deaoit, to which place the army soon after fol- io wh'I, all armed resistance having ceased. Gen- eral Harrison and Captain Perry now issued a' joint proclamation, dated at Sandwich, to the in* II.— 10 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. habitants of the upper district of Upper Canadaj informing them that the land and naval forces of the British having been captured or destroyed, and the district being now in quiet possession of our troops, it became necessary to provide for its civil government. The inhabitants were therefore guar- antied protection in their persons and property, and all their previous rights and privileges were secured to them. The laws and customs of the country, as they existed previous to its conquest, were declared to be in force, and the masfistrates and civil officers were directed to resume their functions, having previously taken an oath of fidel- ity to the government of the United States as long as the district should remain in our possession. There being no longer any armed enemy on our northw^estern frontier or in the neighbourhood of the upper lakes, it became obvious that the greater portion of the militia would be disbanded, and the remainder of the army transported to Buffalo, to be in a situation to act on the Niagara frontier. The business of completely vanquishing the enemy had been so quickly despatched, that some delay at Detroit was necessary in order to learn the pleasure of the government as to the dis- position to be made of the fleet and army. The leisure was employed in completing the pacifica- tion of the Indian tribes, who had already been admitted by General M'Arthur to terms of peace. OLIVER HAZARD PERRY. H and had given hostages for their good behaviour. The fate of their great chief Tecumseh, at the Thames, had effectually broken the league, of which he had been the master-spirit. During this detention at Detroit, Perry enjoyed the first-fruits of that glory which his splendid vic- tory had won for him. It was there that newspa- pers, pouring in from every side, made him first aware of the vast importance that was attached to what he had achieved, in its effects at once on the interests as well as the glory of the nation. He was everywhere hailed as the deliverer of the frontier from savage warfare, as the first American victor in a general naval action with a powerful foe, for centuries accustomed only to conquer ; and the peculiar circumstances of personal gallantry which attended his own conduct in retrieving the day, when, to all appearances, so nearly lost, and which rendered the victory so eminently his own, had fastened itself upon the popular imagination, and created a fervour of enthusiasm in his behalf, which sped with electric rapidity over the whole country, uniting all parties, whether opposed to or in favour of the war, in one fervent glow of ad- miration. Salutes and illuminations everywhere greeted the arrival of the intelligence, and the general joy is said to have been unequalled since the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. The congratulations of Perry's own family were ; 12 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. not among the least acceptable that he received. One incident sensibly touched his feelings. The news of his victory had found his grandfather, Freeman Perry, at the mature age of eighty-three, on his deathbed. The first brief announcement of the victory, in the moment of its being won, was read to him. On the verge of the grave, he could yet exult in the achievement of his descend- ant, by which so much was done for the cause of humanity as well as of his own country. But the pious reliance on a superior power, instead of on his own might, evinced in the few lines of his grandson's despatch, gratified him even to tears. He caused it to be read over to him several times and the words " it has pleased the Almighty" lingered on his lips, and blended with his latest prayers for the prosperity of his children. The secretary of the navy, whose censorious letter of the eighteenth of August was still fresh in Perry's memory, was not the last to give way to the prevailing sentiment, or to acknowledge the brilliancy of a victory which had lustre to spare to reflect a little on himself. The following letter, coming, as it does, in the collection of Perry's let- ters from the navy department next to that of the eighteenth of August, is absolutely amusing in its contrast. Its somewhat turg-ld style, too, com- pares disadvantageously with the solemn yet mod- est terms m which Perry had addressed him. OLIVER HAZARD PERRY. 13 '•Navy Department, September 21, 1813. " Sir, " Rumour had preceded and! prepared the pub- he mind for the enthusiastic reception of the glo- rious tidings confirmed by your letter of the tenth, received and published in handbills this day.
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