One of the former was the brave fellow Macdonald, of whom we have already spoken.

When borne from the embrasure where he received his mortal wound, he cried out to those around him--"Do not give up--you are fighting for liberty and country." The want of powder was severely felt.

But for this, judging from the effects of the fire from the fort, the British Commodore must have struck, or his fleet must have been destroyed.

So slow, at one time, were the discharges--so great the interval of time between them,--that the British were of opinion that the place was abandoned.

But a new supply of powder was obtained by Marion, who, with a small party, leaving the fort, proceeded to the armed schooner Defence, lying in Stop Gap Creek, and seized upon her powder, by which the fire was kept up until a supply of five hundred weight was received from the city.*5* This caused a renewal of the conflict in all its fury.