men, and after two or three broad sides, the _Chesapeake_ in attempting to haul her foresail up fell on board the _Shannon_, whose starboard bower anchor locked with the _Shannon's_ mizen chains. The great guns, with the exception of the _Shannon's_ two aftermost guns ceased firing. The _Chesapeake's_ stern was beaten in, and her decks swept. There was now a sharp fire of musketry from both sides, but Captain Broke perceiving that the _Chesapeake's_ men had left their guns, called up his boarders, at the same time ordering the two ships to be lashed together. And Mr. Stevens, the _Shannon's_ boatswain, set about the execution of the latter order. His left arm was hacked off by the enemy's marines, and he was mortally wounded by a shot from the _Chesapeake's_ tops. He proceeded, nevertheless, in fastening the two ships together, and then dropped in death between the vessels. Captain Lawrence was wounded and carried below, when Captain Broke, at the head of his boarders, leapt upon the _Chesapeake's_ quarter-deck. The enemy's crew were soon overpowered and driven below. Forcing his way forward, the _Shannon's_ men shut down the _Chesapeake's_ hatches and kept up a fire on the men in the tops, while the _Shannon's_ men at the same time, under Mr. Smith, forced their way from the foreyard to the _Chesapeake's_ mainyard, and soon cleared the tops. Captain Broke was at this time assailed furiously by three American sailors, who had previously submitted, and was knocked down by the butt end of a musket, but as he rose he had the satisfaction of seeing the American flag hauled down and the proud old British union floating over it in triumph. Fifteen minutes had only elapsed and the _Chesapeake_ was entirely in the hands of the British. There was one lamentable mishap. Lieutenant Watt, who hauled down the enemy's colours was, with two of his men, killed by a discharge of musketry from the _Shannon's_ marines, in the belief that the conflict still continued. The _Chesapeake_ had forty-seven killed and ninety-eight wounded, and the _Shannon_ lost in killed twenty-four, while fifty-nine had been wounded. It was so ascertained that on equal terms England still held the supremacy of the seas, and the exultation in England was so great that every right-minded man went with the government when they made Captain Broke a baronet. The broadside guns of the _Shannon_ were 25, of the _Chesapeake_ 25; the weight of metal in the former was 538 lbs., and of the latter 590 lbs.; while the _Shannon_ had 306 and the _Chesapeake_ 376 men. The _Chesapeake_ was carried into Halifax, where her gallant, gentlemanly, and ill-starred commander died and was buried, with full military honors, in the presence of all the British officers on the station, who uncovered themselves as they laid into the grave all that was earthly of their noble foe.