nce for the land in which these Ladies of Northampton "hoped
the Protestant religion might prevail."

[Illustration: THE FRIGATE "UNITED STATES"]

CHAPTER XV.

BARRY VISITS THE "SYBILLE" ON HIS RETURN TO PHILADELPHIA--PEACE IS
DECLARED--ORDERED TO AMSTERDAM WITH TOBACCO--THE "ALLIANCE" BECOMES
DISABLED--IS ORDERED SOLD.

After Captain Barry had arrived at New London it was nearly three months
before he came on to Philadelphia. Mrs. Barry had, in April, gone on to
New London. Captain Barry returned home by way of New York. The
"Sybille" was there. Captain Barry visited her and was "politely
treated" by Captain Vashon. The vessel yet bore the marks of the injury
Barry had inflicted and "they said they had not been treated so roughly
before," records Kessler. Some of the Hessians were embarked on her for
return home. As she had received "eighteen cannon shots her condition
was such that pumps had to be manned night and day to keep her from
filling five to eight feet of water." That proved how she had been
shattered by Barry. Captain Barry, after a brief visit to Philadelphia,
returned to Providence Harbor and soon set sail for the Rappahannock
River, Virginia, for a cargo of tobacco for Amsterdam, Holland, on
public account, to pay the interest on loan negotiated there. This was
in August, 1783.

On the way down the Providence River the "Alliance," when going four or
five miles an hour, ran against a sunken rock, which "stopped her as
quick as thought," related Barry. After remaining on the rock two hours
and finding the ship made no water in consequence of the mishap, the
"Alliance" proceeded to Virginia where she took on 500 hogsheads of
tobacco weighing 530,000 pounds.

The Accounts of Robert Morris show that to meet this Holland Loan, 1837
hogsheads of tobacco weighing 1,937,355 pounds had been sent by Daniel
Clarke, Agent of the Finance Department.

On August 24th the "Alliance" sailed from the Capes of Virginia "with
good prospects before us and in hopes of a short voyage. But," as
Captain Barry reported to Robert Morris on the 26th from the Delaware
Bay, "as is often the case when people's expectations are buoyed up with
great prospects they frequently find themselves disappointed."

"We had not been long out with a moderate breeze, wind and smooth sea
when we discovered all of a sudden the ship to make nineteen inches per
hour and soon to have three feet of water in her hold and so damagin