that the American privateers had been chased into the Harbour. Next morning the British advanced with nine vessels, several of which were row galleys, for the purpose of capturing the Privateers. They commenced a furious cannonade in the direction of "Chimney Corner," but finding they could not injure
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
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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 9 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 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