Privateering, account of, ii. 257; defence of, ii. 261; acts of Congress respecting, ii. 262, 263. Privateers, characteristic names of, ii. 263; superiority to English, ii. 277; character of their commanders, ii. 277. Prisoners, American, treatment of, in England, ii. 280; sufferings in Dartmoor prison, ii. 281-285; assailed by French prisoners, ii. 283; denounce American agent for prisoners, ii. 287; neglected by government, ii. 287; their employments, ii. 288; number of, ii. 292; massacre of, ii. 294. Q. Queenstown, battle of, i. 101. Quincy, Josiah, i. 225; speech against army bill, i. 227. R. Revolution, French, i. 17. Rose, English Minister, i. 33. Rattlesnake, brig, captured, i. 252. Randolph, speech in Congress, i. 45-51; sketch of, i. 237; succeeded by Eppes, i. 319. Revenue, i. 292. Retaliation acts, i. 307. Rodgers, Commodore, his squadron at New York, i. 132; his first cruise, i. 134; attacks the Belvidere, i. 137; second cruise, i. 151. Riall, British General at Chippewa, ii. 76; captured by Jessup at Lundy's Lane, ii. 86. Russell, John, American Chargé to England, i. 50; despatch from, i. 53. Ripley, Colonel, at Lundy's Lane, ii. 88; his strange conduct after the battle, ii. 98; surrenders his command to General Gaines, ii. 100; wounded at Fort Erie, ii. 109. Ross, General, marches on Washington, ii. 119-127; fires the capitol, ii. 127; his hasty retreat, ii. 133; killed in the advance on Baltimore, ii. 143. S. St. Clair, General, cause of his defeat, i. 17. Smythe, General, commands on the Niagara frontier, i. 71; proclamation, i. 111; failure and disgrace, i. 112-114; review of his campaign, i. 119. Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, i. 95; commands Kentucky volunteers under General Harrison, i. 287. Sandusky, Fort, defence of, i. 201. Scott, Lieut.-Colonel, at Queenstown, i. 103; taken prisoner, i. 108-110; captures Fort George, i. 213; joins Wilkinson, i. 299; introduces French system of tactics into camp of instruction at Buffalo; chases the Marquis of Tweedsdale, ii. 76; advances on Lundy's Lane, ii. 84; wounded, ii. 94; his journey to Baltimore and reception at Princeton, ii. 97-98. Sackett's Harbor, naval depôt at, i. 207; attack of, i. 215. Shortland, Captain, superintendent of Dartmoor prison, ii. 286; massacres American prisoners, ii. 293. Sheaffe, General, at Queenstown, i. 105. Sinclair, Captain, commands the expedition against Mackinaw, ii. 73. Stewart, Captain, remonstrates with the President against laying up the navy, i. 128; commands the Constitution, ii. 235; captures the Cyane and Levant, i. 240.