Purser John B. Timberlake. Mr. Timberlake’s wife, who was known in Washington as “Peggy” O’Neil, married after his death John H. Eaton, Secretary of War, 1829-1831, and became the cause of the celebrated “ladies’ quarrel,” as Calhoun termed it, which terminated in the disruption of Jackson’s Cabinet in 1831. Midshipmen-- Joseph Cassin, Jr., who died a Lieutenant in 1826. Philip F. Voorhees, who died a Captain in 1862. John P. Zantzinger, who appears on the Navy List as “dropped” in 1855, but who was purser of the _Hornet_ in 1815, when she narrowly escaped capture by the British 74 _Cornwallis_. In that memorable stern-chase all the guns but one, the cables, boats and nearly everything else movable, were thrown overboard to lighten the vessel. From the Congressional records we find that in 1850--_thirty-five_ years after--Congress passed an act allowing Mr. Zantzinger payment for what he had been obliged to sacrifice under these circumstances, when even the knives and forks were thrown overboard. Richard Delphy, who was killed in the _Argus_-_Pelican_ encounter, August 14, 1813, and is buried at Plymouth, England. Dugomier Taylor, who died at sea, as a Lieutenant, October 5, 1819. Richard S. Heath, who became Lieutenant, and was killed June 2, 1817, in a duel with Midshipman J. L. Hopkins, at New York. Edward F. Howell, who was killed in the action between the _President_ and the _Endymion_, January 15, 1815. H. Z. W. Harrington (Henry W., on navy records), resigned April 12, 1813. William Jameson, who died a Commodore April 6, 1873, his record surpassing even that of Sloat. He was doubtless the last survivor of the famous encounter of sixty-one years before. Archibald Hamilton, who became a Lieutenant and was killed in the action between the _President_ and the _Endymion_, January 15, 1815. He was son of Paul Hamilton, then Secretary of the Navy. Lewis Hinchman (or Henchman). } Benjamin S. Williams, } of whom no record is found. John N. Carr, } John Stansbury, who was killed in Macdonough’s victory on Lake Champlain, September 11, 1814. George C. Read, who died a Rear-Admiral in 1862. Walter Wooster, drowned June 1, 1813. (The Navy Department gives his name as “Winter.”) John D. Sloat, who died a Rear-Admiral in 1867, having the wonderful record of forty-four years’ active service, having entered the navy as a midshipman in 1800--served one year until discharged by the peace-establishment. He re-entered as sailing-master 1812. In 1847 he secured possession of California just in time to forestall the British designs on the Pacific Coast, and was on the active list until 1855; retired 1861, but promoted until 1866--thus being on the navy list for fifty-seven years. Surgeon Samuel R. Trevett, Jr. (died 1822), when surgeon on the sloop-of-war _Peacock_.