ship, the Captain, on board
the enemy.

"Fortune favours the brave! nor, on this occasion, was she
unmindful of her favourite. Captain Miller so judiciously directed
the course of the Captain, that she was laid aboard the starboard
quarter of the Spanish eighty-four; her spritsail-yard passing over
the enemy's poop, and hooking in her mizen shrouds: and, the word
to board being given, the officers and seamen, destined for this
duty, headed by Lieutenant Berry, together with the detachment of
the sixty-ninth regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Pearson, then
doing duty as marines on board the Captain, passed with rapidity on
board the enemy's ship; and, in a short time, the San Nicolas was
in the possession of her intrepid assailants. The commodore's
impatience would not permit him to remain an inactive spectator of
this event. He knew, that the attempt was hazardous; and his
presence, he thought, might contribute to it's success. He,
therefore, accompanied the party in this attack: passing, from the
fore-chains of his own ship, into the enemy's quarter gallery; and,
thence, through the cabin, to the quarter-deck, where he arrived in
time to receive the sword of the dying commander, who was mortally
wounded by the boarders. For a few minutes after the officers had
submitted, the crew below were firing their lower-deck guns: this
irregularity, however, was soon corrected, and measures taken for
the security of the conquest. But this labour was no sooner
atchieved, than he found himself engaged in another, still more
arduous. The stern of the three-decker, his former opponent, was
directly amidships on the weather-beam of the San Nicolas; and,
from her poop and galleries, the enemy sorely annoyed, with
musketry, the British who had boarded the San Nicolas. The
commodore was not long in resolving on the conduct to be adopted on
this momentous occasion. The two alternatives that presented
themselves to his unshaken mind, were to quit the prize, or
instantly board the three-decker. Confident of the bravery of his
seamen, he determined on the latter. Directing, therefore, an
additional number of men to be sent from the Captain on board the
San Nicolas, the undaunted Commodore headed, himself, the
assailants in this new attack; vehemently exclaiming--"W