jury-masts were rigged, and the President was safely conducted to Bermuda[1].
On Captain Hope’s arrival at that rendezvous, the magistrates, merchants, and principal inhabitants, deputed a committee to wait upon him with a complimentary address, and to request his acceptance of a piece of plate, as a token of their esteem: they also presented his officers with a goblet, to “be considered as attached to the present, or any future ship, which may bear the gallant name of ‘Endymion.’”
Captain Hope’s delicate treatment of Commodore Decatur is thus acknowledged by the latter officer, in his report to the Secretary of the American navy:
“It is due to Captain Hope to state, that every attention has heen paid by him to myself and officers that have been placed on board his ship, that delicacy and humanity could dictate.”
The Endymion and her prize arrived at Spithead Mar. 28, 1815. “The President, of course, was added to the British navy; but her serious damages in the action, coupled with the length of time she had been in service, prevented her from being of any greater utility, than that of affording to Englishmen, many of whom, till then, had been the dupes of their trans-atlantic ‘brethren,’ ocular demonstration of the ‘equal force’ by which their frigates had been captured[2].”
Captain Hope received a gold medal from the Admiralty, for his gallant conduct in the above action; was nominated a C.B. June 4, 1815; and put out of commission in the month of August following.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
THOMAS USSHER, Esq.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1808.]
This highly distinguished officer is descended from the celebrated Archbishop Ussher, Primate of Ireland; whose ancestor (a Neville) was established in that country in the reign
