mander of public ships, or the collector of customs, authentic certificates of naturalization; and by the resolution of congress of the 27th April 1816, they must declare where they were born, or from what foreign land they came.

Expences of the Naval Department from the year

The secretary of the naval department has a salary of 4500 dollars. In 1812, there were twelve clerks ; since that period the number has been increased. In the office of the secretary there are five clerks; the chief with a salary of 2000 dollars, the others have from 800 to 1800 dollars. In the navy commissioners' office there are three commissioners, each with a salary of 3500 dollars; the secretary to this board has 2000, and three clerks 1000 dollars each. The accountant of the navy has a salary of 2300. In this office there are thirteen clerks, with salaries from 800 to 1600 dollars.

The following tables, extracted from Niles's Weekly Register, contains some curious particulars respecting the principal naval battles between Americans and British, and the ships lost on each side.

Statement of Naval Battles between the Americans and British, from 1812 to 1815, with the Place of Action, the Force of the Ships, and Particulars of the Loss on each side.

British national vessels captured,

Carrying, in all, (the deduction of 18 guns being made for the gun-boats which escaped on Champlain, but put into the table to show the relative force of the two squadrons, the gun-boats being also estimated in our aggregate,) guns,

66

910

*These were chiefly packets carrying eight or ten guns. The privateers would average about the same.]