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n by a broadside, with musketry. Then Rodgers, equally determined, he said, not to be the aggressor, or suffer the flag of my country to be insulted with impunity, gave orders for a general fire. His antagonist was silenced within six minutes, and the guns of the President ceased firing, when suddenly her antagonist opened fire anew. Again she was silenced, and at dawn the President saw her several miles to the leeward. He ascertained that she was his Majesty's ship Little Belt, Capt. A. B. Bingham, which was searching for the Guerriere on the American coast. Rodgers was in the port of New York when war was declared, in command of a small squadron—the President (his flag-ship), forty-four guns; the Essex, thirty-two, Captain Porter; and the Hornet, eighteen, Captain Lawrence. He received orders (June 21, 1812) to sail immediately on a cruise. He had received information that a fleet of West India merchantmen had sailed for England under a convoy, and he steered for the Gulf