(p. 200)
PLATE XXXIX.

_June 28, 1814._

Johnston Blakeley Reip. Faed. Am. nav. Wasp dux. [Rx]. Eheu! bis
victor patria tua te luget plauditq.

CAPTAIN JOHNSTON BLAKELEY.

[_Capture of the Reindeer._]

JOHNSTON BLAKELEY REIP. FAED. AM. NAV. WASP DUX. (_Johnston Blakeley,
Reipublicae Faederatae Americanae navis Wasp dux: Johnston Blakeley,
Captain of the American Federal Republic's vessel Wasp._) Bust of
Captain Blakeley, in uniform, facing the right. FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).

EHEU! BIS VICTOR PATRIA TUA TE LUGET PLAUDITQ. (_Plauditque_) (_Alas!
twice conqueror, thy country laments and applauds thee._) Naval action
between the United States sloop-of-war Wasp, of eighteen guns, Captain
Blakeley, and the British sloop-of-war Reindeer, of eighteen guns,
Captain Manners; the Wasp, to windward, is firing her port broadside.
The British vessel is striking her colors. Exergue: INTER WASP NAV.
AMERI. ET REINDEER NAV. ANG. DIE XXVIII JUNIUS (_sic_) MDCCCXIV.
(_Inter Wasp navem Americanam et Reindeer navem Anglicanam, die 28
Junius, 1814: Between the American vessel Wasp and the English vessel
Reindeer, June 28, 1814._) On the platform, FUeRST. F. (_fecit_).

JOHNSTON BLAKELEY was born at Seaford, County Down, Ireland, (p. 201)
October, 1781. He was brought, when very young, to North Carolina,
where his parents settled, and where they died while he was still a
child. He entered the navy as a midshipman, February 5, 1800, and
served under Commodore Preble in the Tripolitan campaign. In 1813,
when a lieutenant, he commanded the Enterprize, and in the same year
became master-commandant of the sloop-of-war Wasp, with which, on June
28, 1814, he took the British sloop-of-war Reindeer, Commander William
Manners. For this memorable action Congress gave him a vote of thanks
and a gold medal. He afterward cruised off the coast of France, and
was lost at sea in the Wasp, of which no news has ever been received.

_____

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolution of Congress Voting Medals to Captain Blakeley, etc._

_Resolved unanimously by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled_: That the
President of the United States be requested to present to Captain
Johnston Blakeley, of the sloop Wasp, a gold medal, with suitable
devices, and a silver medal,[95] with like devices, to each of
the commiss