ocr: HE TIMES: OF LONDON was - - - annoyed. "It is not merely that an English frigate has been taken : but that it has been taken by a new enemy, an eneny unaccustomed to such triumphs, and likely tol be rendered insolent and confident by them. Never before in the history of the world did an English frigate strike to an American. The Royal Navy was unused to striking its colors to anyone or, since Trafalgar, sharing its insolence and confidence. Ir was the summer of 1812, and the upstarts across the. Atlantic, with an infant navy one-fortieth the size of Britain's, had done the unthinkable, vanquis ...
