the American privateers in the position in which they then were, some of the British vessels took a station further east, where, by firing over a low [page break] 1039 193 [margin: PARIS] neck of land they were enabled to rake the Americans in Chimney Corner, who were scarcely able to bring a single gun to bear upon their assailants. It was now about of oclock, a. m. In addition to the crews about sixty militia under Captain Isaac Howe had assembled to aid the privateers. Captain Isaac Howe and his men were lying concealed in the woods and bushes, behind a high ledge of rocks a little south of Chimney Corner. Several of the British vessels now entered the Harbour near Chimney Corner, and after firing first with ball and then with grapeshot, and tearing up trees and bushes they supposed that their adversaries had been driven from the woods. Circumstances seemed to justify this conclusion. The privateers at first had fired such guns as they could bring to bear, but these had been for sometime been silent. Among the neighbouring inha- -bitants who had come down to assist in the defence, was captain John Grigg, an old Scottish shipmaster who had married and [page break] 194 1040 [margin: PARIS] settled in the vicinity. He urged the privateers men strongly to take their cannon ashore and put them in a position which he pointed out where they could be used with effect against the enemy. Grigg's conduct was so decisive and his reasons appeared so good that the com- -manders of the privateers not only consented, but insisted upon his taking command and of their guns. He accordingly proceeded to place them in battery upon some high rocks covered with bushes. It was while this removal was going on and while all firing on the part of the privateers men had become necessarily suspended that they enemy seemed to have concluded that there would be little, if any, more further defence, and that they approached Chimney Corner firing first balls and then grape shot as above mentioned.