The _Hornet_ had 1 man killed and 11 wounded; the _Penguin_, 10 killed and 28 wounded.

She was so badly shattered that, after taking out her stores, her captors scuttled her.
In order to complete our history of the gallant Captain James Biddle it is necessary to carry the record in advance of some of the incidents that follow.
As has been stated, the _Peacock_ and the _Hornet_ had gone to Tristan d'Acunha in obedience to the orders of Commodore Decatur, to wait for him and the _President_, but the latter never arrived, for the good reason that she had been captured by the enemy.

Growing tired of waiting, Biddle and Captain Warrington, of the _Peacock_, started on an extended cruise, April 13, for the East Indies.
Doubling the Cape of Good Hope, they met with no incident of note until the latter part of April, when they sighted a large sail, which they believed to be a heavily laden East India merchantman.

A chase immediately began.

It continued a long time, and the _Peacock_ was within a few miles, when she made the discovery that the stranger, instead of being a merchantman, was a ship of the line.