The armament of this privateer consisted of one long twenty-four-pounder and twelve heavy carronades.
After the deliberation I fixed upon the Paul Jones as the more desirable vessel.

The warlike preparations and rakish appearance of this schooner looked like BUSINESS, and I had seen the insolence of John Bull so often exhibited on the broad highway of nations, and had so often listened to his taunts and sneers in ridicule of the prowess of the Yankees, that I longed for an opportunity to lend a hand to give him a drubbing.

I stepped on board and inquired of an officer who seemed busy in giving directions, if I could have a chance in the privateer.

He asked me a few questions, to which I gave satisfactory answers.

He said there were many applications of a similar character, but he thought he could insure me a situation; told me to call next day at two o'clock, when the agent would be on board, and the matter could be arranged.
The important part which the American privateers bore in the last war with Great Britain is well known.