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"Howsoever," he continued, "I should like to have a sprinkling of shot between us on fair terms. Do you bring this here brig to our waters; I hope to get another just like her, and as I know you are a damned good fellow, and would as soon have a dust as sit down to dinner, I should like to try to get the command of the True-blooded Yankee again."
In later years another American privateer, "the true-blooded Yankee," captured a considerable number of merchant vessels at anchor in Port Charlotte. We anchored at nightfall in a deep bay at the southern end of Colonsay, called Toulgoram. A narrow strait divides that little island from the still smaller one of Oronsay.
What thing of sea Comes this way sailing, Like a stately ship With all her bravery on, and tackle trim? The privateer was called the True-blooded Yankee.
The grandiloquent style of the regular navy vanishes, and in its place we find homely names; such as "Jack's Favorite," "Lovely Lass," "Row-boat," "Saucy Jack," or "True-blooded Yankee." Some names are clearly political allusions, as the "Orders in Council" and the "Fair Trade."
What thing of sea Comes this way sailing, Like a stately ship With all her bravery on, and tackle trim? The privateer was called the True-blooded Yankee.
I replied, that it was the True-blooded Yankee of Boston that she had hove-to and surrendered. "It is not," says Blake, "the business of a seaman to mind state affairs, but to hinder foreigners from fooling us." DR JOHNSON'S Life of Blake. The frigate came to the wind close under our lee, and a boat from her was alongside in a very few minutes.
The color deepened in her cheeks; she caught her breath with a little "Oh!" She wondered what sprout of blue-blooded and true-blooded nobility in Shelbyville there was capable of turning a reply like that without straining for it more than that pale cavalier with his worn clothing hanging loose upon his bony frame.
In 1813 they captured four hundred prizes, while the national cruisers took but seventy-nine. The "True-Blooded Yankee" alone in thirty-seven days took twenty-seven vessels, some of them in Dublin Bay, and was not captured. The loss of property and of prestige was so great that in 1814 insurance on vessels crossing the Irish Channel was rated at thirteen per cent.
Why," continued he, "there is your best man, Thompson; I'd lay a demi-John of old Jamaica rum that he is a true-blooded Yankee, and if he was to speak his mind, would sooner fight under the stripes than the union." "Damn the dog that says yon of Jock Thompson," replied the Caledonian, who stood by. "I never deserted my colours yet, and I don't think I ever shall.
All sail was made immediately, but the rocks astern were so close to us, that you might have thrown a biscuit on them, and we thought the cruise of the True-blooded Yankee was at an end; but it proved otherwise, for the same cause which produced the slack cable preserved the vessel.
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