the 26th of June perceived across the Bay of Quintee some coming towards them. chase, all our sails set, but the

enemy immediately sheered off.

We gave them

He was pursued so close that he

was obliged to abandon his sloop, which was his third vessel. We left this to our two barks our two Corsairs continued in pursuit of the enemy who seeing himself gained on cut his boat loose and threw a number of other things overboard. In vain we fired our chasers after him he made no re;

sponse, taken up altogether in pushing himself ahead, and the Corsairs by means of the quantity of sail he carried.

wind having fallen he gained on our Having chased him into Chouaguen we tacked

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She struck at once. This prize is about 20 tons, to overhaul the sloop our barks had missed. armed with 6 patereros, 12 muskets, 6 sailors and 8 soldiers. On the 25th June, as our two Corsairs were cruising between the Islands of Couis and the Galops, one of them being near the Bay of Niagara, got intelligence of a schooner returning to Chouaguen. He gave chase and found liimself in doubling a point quite close on Chouaguen. The Schooner had time to enter the River, were it not for which she would not have escaped this Corsair. f This, My lord, is what the movements and exploits of our little Navy of Lake Ontario is at present

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reduced to.