^{FN1 Ch8} And maybe too, to impress a few Americans. It seems Americans were impressed into the British navy. Governor Wentworth, in 1805, made a request of Admiral Mitchell to release several men who were aboard British navy ships stationed at Halifax, all of whom could be vouched for. Indeed, Wentworth asserted that the men he was writing about had certificates of American Citizenship. (Calendar Nova Scotia, 1802-1815, PANS, 1936; see Governor Wentworth's report under entry of Sept 10th, 1805.)

^{FN2 Ch8} As quoted by Mahan, Sea Power in its Relations to The War of 1812 (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1905), Vol. 1, p. 123.

^{FN3 Ch8} The 50-gun Bellisle, 74-gun Bellona, 74-gun Triumph, Chichester, 18-gun Halifax and Zenobia and a cutter. [Allen, Battles of the British Navy, (London: Bohn, 1853), Vol. 2, p. 198.] "While the squadron, Bellona, Bellisle, Triumph, Leopard, Halifax and Zenobia, were at anchor in the Chesapeake in the summer of 1807 a large number of seamen deserted ..." (http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/intro.htm : 3/11/2005)

^{FN4 Ch8} The Halifax was built at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1806.

^{FN5 Ch8} http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/intro.htm : 3/11/2005

^{FN6 Ch8} The Chesapeake was launched on February 28th, 1799, at Norfolk.

^{FN7 Ch8} http://www.foundersofamerica.org/decatur.html : 10/4/2005 Mahan wrote, "No one who understands the affection of a naval officer for an able seaman, especially if his ship be short-handed, will need to have explained how difficult it became for him to distinguish between an Englishman and an American ..." [Sea Power in its Relations to The War of 1812 (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1905), Vol. 1, p. 117.]

^{FN8 Ch8} Humphreys, better known as Sir Salusbury Pryce Davenport, was to become a Rear-Admiral and died in 1845.

^{FN9 Ch8} See Zabriskie's 12 page article, "The Chesapeake Affair," New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, October, 1944.

^{FN10 Ch8} http://www.foundersofamerica.org/decatur.html : 10/4/2005 I have tracked the movements of the Leopard in and out of Halifax Harbour during 1807. This I am able to do because of John Liddell's contemporaneous entries into his journal. On May 14th, 1807, HMS Leopard came in from Bermuda with Vice Admiral Berkeley. On June 10th, she together with the 22-gun Crocodile sailed on a cruise. On October 12th, 74-gun Triumph (Captain, Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy) and the Leopard came in from the Chesapeake.

^{FN11 Ch8} Battles of the British Navy, Vol. 2, pp. 198-9.

^{FN12 Ch8} Akins refers to a John Wilson who "had been taken from the American frigate Chesapeake on charges of mutiny and desertion. He was tried by Court Martial on board the Flag Ship Bellisle on 26th August, condemned and executed on 31st. Two other seamen were in October following executed on board the Jason, Captain Cochran, for mutiny." ("History of Halifax City," NSHS, #8, p. 140.) A note of explanation is required: The Jason was built at Woolwich in 1804; she was broken up in 1815. Pierced for 22 guns, she mounted sixteen long 12-pounders and four brass 2-pound swivels; she had a crew of 170 men. In 1806, Thomas John Cochrane, at the Leeward Islands, was appointed as the captain of the Jason; he was the eldest son of Sir Alexander. "While Jason was in New York at the end of August a boat which went ashore with a lieutenant was surrounded by a mob which invited the crew to desert. The men left the boat and when the officer drew a pistol he was immediately surrounded and would have been tarred and feathered if it had not been for the intervention of an American naval captain. Back on the ship the crew mutinied and placed shot boxes on the gratings to prevent the officers coming up while they attempted to lower the boats. But the officers managed to break out and the first lieutenant with a boarding pike and the others with small arms forced the mutineers below where they surrendered. Forty five were put in irons and taken to Halifax for court martial." [http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/intro.htm] Thus it was, that on September 16th, 1807, the Jason came into Halifax with her mutineers in irons. On October 12th, two of them were hung from the yard arms of the Jason.

^{FN13 Ch8} Fergusson's Glimpses of Nova Scotia (Halifax: PANS, No. #12, 1957). " ... flogging around the fleet. The offender was secured to an upright timber in a ship's boat, and when it pulled alongside each gangway a boatswain's mate entered the boat and inflicted a certain number of lashes. For added effect the boat was accompanied on its rounds of the fleet by other boats, each with a drummer in the bows beating a roll on his drum." ( http://www.readyayeready.com/tradition/customs-of-the-navy/6-laws-of-the-sea-and-punishments.htm : 11/3/2005 )

^{FN14 Ch8} There is no need to quote it here; see Mahan, Sea Power in its Relations to The War of 1812 (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1905), Vol. 1, p. 166.

^{FN15 Ch8} Admiral Mahan had it that "Her captain" -- with the reference, it seems, to Humphreys -- "was not again given a ship; but before the end of the year the chief offender, the admiral, had been assigned to the important command at Lisbon." I think the much respected author was getting the two captains mixed up. He mistook Barron for Humphreys. (Mahan, Sea Power in its Relations to The War of 1812 (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1905), Vol. 1, pp. 167-8.) Humphreys, better known as Sir Salusbury Pryce Davenport, was to become in time a Rear-admiral.

^{FN16 Ch8} The quotes and information was taken from, http://www.foundersofamerica.org/decatur.html : 10/4/2005

^{FN17 Ch8} For more on the "Chesapeake Incident," see: Murdoch, vol. 3, p. 264; Haliburton, vol. 1, pp. 283-4; and Zabriskie, "The Chesapeake Affair," op. cit.