On October 18th the sloop-of-war _Wasp_, of 18 guns and 135 men, commanded by Captain Jacob Jones, captured the British brig _Frolic_, of 19 guns and 110 men. The first lieutenant, Biddle, who had gallantly led the boarders, hauled down the _Frolic’s_ flag at 12:15, forty-three minutes after the beginning of the action. Almost at once afterward both of the _Frolic’s_ masts went by the board. Not twenty of her men had escaped unhurt. Every officer was wounded, and the first lieutenant and master died soon after. Her total loss was thus ninety killed and wounded. Says the distinguished French Admiral Jurien de la Gravière, commenting on this action: “On occasions when the roughness of the sea would seem to render all aim excessively uncertain the effects of [the American] artillery were not less murderous than under more advantageous conditions.” Unfortunately, a little later, the British _Poictiers_, 74, came in sight, and the _Wasp_ not only had to yield her capture but was herself carried a prize into Bermuda, where Jones and his men were later exchanged. Captain Jones was promoted to the command of the _Macedonian_, which had been captured by the _United States_ only a week after the _Wasp’s_ own brilliant action. The _United States_ and _Argus_, under Commodore Decatur, had left Boston on October 8th in company with Commodore Rodgers, commanding the _President_ and the _Congress_. The latter was successful in making one valuable prize and eight others of but small value, and reëntered Boston on December 31st. Decatur had separated from Rodgers’s command on October 12th, and on the 18th, about 500 miles south by west of the Azores, he met the frigate _Macedonian_, of 49 guns and 301 men, commanded by Captain Richard Carden. There was about the same difference in force as between the _Constitution_ and _Guerrière_ and about the same in destruction. The _Macedonian_ had forty-three killed and mortally wounded, and sixty-one wounded; the _United States_ had a lieutenant and six seamen killed or mortally wounded, and five wounded. The action lasted an hour and a half. The _Macedonian_ had received over a hundred shot in the hull, her mizzenmast had gone by the board, and her fore and maintopmasts at the cap. Her rigging was badly cut and many of her guns had been dismounted. On the other hand, the _United States_ had suffered no injuries which could not at once be repaired. It was clear that the American gunnery was immensely superior, though the _Macedonian_ had been regarded a crack ship. The British ship had on board eight impressed Americans. These, though objecting to fighting their countrymen, were obliged to stay at the guns, and three were killed. Fortunately the damages to the _Macedonian_ were not so severe that she had to be destroyed; convoyed by the _United States_, she was carried into New London, reaching there on December 4th.