on her arrival at New York the French frigate had to take all of them out; and her yards, rigging, and hull must also have been considerably injured, or the Embuscade, doubtless, would have continued the chase, in order to consummate her victory. The Embuscade lay at New York, from the 2d of August to the 9th of October, getting in her lower masts, and repairing the damages she had sustained by the Boston's fire.

The Boston, after losing sight of the Embuscade, had a very narrow escape. She was about entering the Delaware to refit in that river, when the pilot gave information, that two French frigates (believed to have been the Concorde and Inconstante) were lying at anchor opposite Mud Fort. No time was to be lost, and the British frigate, discharging the pilot, hauled up for St. John's, Newfoundland; where, on the 19th, the Boston arrived in safety.

On account of the acknowledged gallantry of Captain Courtenay in the engagement with the Embuscade, the late king was pleased to settle on his widow a pension of £500 and on each of his two children £50 per annum. Captain Bompart, some time after his return to New York, was also rewarded for his good conduct, by being appointed to the Jupiter 74, recently arrived from St. Domingo.

The following is the account of the death of Captain Courtenay, as it appears in a contemporary work: "The action soon began, and continued with great bravery on both sides, until the iron hammock-rail of the quarterdeck being struck by a shot, a part of it took Captain Courtenay on the back of the neck, and he fell, but no blood followed: the first lieutenant caused the body to be immediately thrown overboard, lest, as he said, it should dishearten the people; and after this precaution hauled away from the enemy, who had no inclination to follow him." * All we can say to this extraordinary statement is, that our account was taken chiefly from the Boston's log book, and that we have not the least reason, from subsequent inquiries, to believe it to be incorrect. The officer, Lieutenant John Edwards, thus severely treated, after acting a short time in command of the Pluto sloop, whose commander, the present Vice-admiral Sir James Nicoll Morris, had been posted into the Boston, resumed his station on board of the latter, went to England in her in extreme ill-health from his contusion, was made a commander on the 22d of June, 1795, and died as such, from the effects of his old wound, on the 15th of January, 1823 ; the very month, if not the very day, on which the book, containing this serious charge against him, both as an officer and a man, appeared before the public.

About the middle of October the British 18-pounder 36-gun frigate, Crescent, Captain James Saumarez, sailed from Spithead