350     LIGHT SQUADRONS AND SINGLE SHIPS     1814

Rawle), first lieutenant of marines (Thomas Park), purser (William Benge Basden), two midshipmen, and 81 seamen and marines wounded. Among the langridge which the Americans fired, were nails, brass buttons, knife-blades, &c. ; and the consequence was, that the wounded, as on former occasions recorded in this work, suffered excruciating pain before they were cured. Soon after daylight the Carnation went into the road to destroy he privateer, but the Americans saved the British the trouble by setting fire to her themselves.

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