Long Short Weight of Vessels. Guns. Long. Short. metal. metal. metal. /-----/\-----\ /-----/\-----\ Confiance 37 31 6 744 192 936 Linnet 16 16 192 192 Chubb 11 1 10 6 180 186 Finch 10 4 6 24 108 132 Twelve Gunboats 16 8 8 162 256 418 -- -- -- ---- --- ---- Total 90 60 30 1128 736 1864 _Force of American Fleet._ Long Short Weight of Vessels. Guns. Long. Short. metal. metal. metal. /-----/\-----\ /-----/\-----\ Saratoga 26 8 18 192 636 828 Eagle 20 8 12 144 384 528 Ticonderoga 17 12 5 168 146 314 Preble 7 7 63 63 Ten Gunboats 16 10 6 192 108 300 -- -- -- --- ---- ---- Total 86 45 41 759 1274 2033 In this calculation the possible error consists only in one disputed eighteen-pound columbiad on the “Finch,” and three disputed guns--one long and two short--on the British gunboats. In one case the British would have thrown about nineteen hundred pounds of metal,--in the other, about eighteen hundred. A glance at the two tables shows that in one respect Downie held a decisive superiority in his guns. He had no less than sixty long-range pieces, while Macdonough had but forty-five. Downie’s long-range guns threw at least eleven hundred pounds of metal; Macdonough’s threw but seven hundred and sixty. If Downie chose his own distance beyond range of the thirty-two-pound carronades, and fought only his long guns, nothing could save Macdonough except extreme good fortune, for he had but fourteen twenty-four-pound guns against Downie’s thirty-four. Firing by broadsides, Downie could throw from his single ship, the “Confiance,” sixteen twenty-four-pound shot, to which Macdonough could reply only with eight, even if he used all his long guns on the same side.