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
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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 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 became necessarily suspended that they enemy seemed to have concluded that there would be little, if any, further defence, and that they approached Chimney Corner firing first balls and then grapeshot as above mentioned. One of the assailing vessels, her deck crowded with men, now approached the shore, directly in front of the rocks and bushes where Captain Howe lay concealed, evidently for the purpose of landing and cutting out the privateers. Captain Howe's