. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... d to Tripoli, where coniinodore Decatur made asimilar demand for a similar violation of the treaty subsistingbetween the United States and tiic bashaw, who had permittedtwo American vessels to be taken from under the guns of hiscastle by a JJritish sloop of war, and refused protection to anAmerican cruiser lying within his jurisdiction. Restitution of the
. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... d to Tripoli, where coniinodore Decatur made asimilar demand for a similar violation of the treaty subsistingbetween the United States and tiic bashaw, who had permittedtwo American vessels to be taken from under the guns of hiscastle by a JJritish sloop of war, and refused protection to anAmerican cruiser lying within his jurisdiction. Restitution of thefull value of these vessels was demanded, and the moneyamountino- to twenty-five thousand dollars, paid by the bashawinto the hands of the American consul. After the conclusion ofthis ailair, the American consular Hag, which Mr. Jones, theconsul, had struck, in consequence of the violation of neutralityabove mentioned, was hoisted in the presence of the foreignagents, and saluted from the castle with thirty-one guns. In ad-dition to the satisfaction thus obtained, for unprovoked aggres-sions, the commodore had the pleasure of obtaining the releaseof ten captives, two Danes, and eight Neapolitans, the latter ofwhom he landed at Messina. View of After touching at Messina and Naples, the squadron sailed forCarthagena on the 31st of August, where commodore Decaturwas in expectation of meeting the relief squadron, under commo-dore Bainbridge. On joining that officer at Gibraltar, he relin-quished his command, and sailed in the Guerriere for the UniteoStates, where he arrived on the 12th of November, 1815. Everything being done previous to the arrival of the second division ofLhe squadron, under commodore Bainbridge, that gallant officerbad no opportunity of distinguishing himself Pursuant to his THE AMERICAN FLAG 381 Instructions he exhibited this additional force before Algiers,Tunis, and Tripoli, where they were somewhat surprised at theappearance of the Independence seventy-four.
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