On sending for the carpenter he informed me that all his crew had been killed or wounded.
The enemy, from the impossibility of reaching him with our carronades and the little apprehension that was excited by our fire, which had now become much slackened, was enabled to take aim at us as at a target; his shot never missed our hull and my ship was cut up in a manner which was perhaps never before witnessed; in fine, I saw no hope of saving her, and at twenty minutes after 6 P.M.I gave the painful order to strike the colors.

Seventy-five men including officers were all that remained of my whole crew after the action, many of them severely wounded, some of whom have since died.
The enemy still continued his fire and my brave, though unfortunate companions were still falling about me.

I directed an opposite gun to be fired to show them we intended no further resistance but they did not desist.

Four men were killed at my side and others at different parts of the ship.

I now believed he intended to show us no quarter, that it would be as well to die with my flag flying as struck, and was on the point of again hoisting it when about ten minutes after hauling down the colors he ceased firing.
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