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to the bottom of the South Atlantic Ocean. Special honors were bestowed upon Captain Biddle. When he arrived in New York a public dinner was given to him, and his native town (Philadelphia) gave him a beautiful service of silver-plate. Congress thanked him in the name of the republic, and voted him a gold medal. Converting the Tom Bowline into a cartel ship, he sent his prisoners in her to Rio de Janeiro. See Biddle, James. When sailing towards the Indian seas on the morning of April 27, 1815, the Hornet and Peacock were close together, and Captain Warrington, of the latter, signalled to Biddle, of the former, that a strange vessel was seen in the distance. Both sloops started in chase, with a light wind, and gained on the stranger. the Peacock was ahead, and on the afternoon of the 28th displayed caution in her movements, for she had discovered that the stranger was a heavy British line-ofbattle-ship, and that she was about to turn upon and chase the American vessels. The