Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

From the Baltimore Evening Post.

We have been favored with the following anecdote of Captain Chauncy, of the United States navy. Its genuine Yankee spirit will not be unpleasant to our readers at this crisis.

A very short time since, Capt. Chauncey returned from a voyage to the East Indies which, under a furlough, he had made as a private citizen. On the passage home—in the Indian Ocean, he was brought to by a British ship of war of 64 guns, and a lieutenant and 10 or 12 men sent on board his ship. The British officer, an impertinent puppy, without even saluting Capt. C. as a person having any pretensions to gentility would have done, immediately ordered one of his men to stand by the helm. Capt. C., justly offended, told his sailor to knock any man down who attempted to take his place without his (Chauncy's) orders. The attempt was made, and the English sailor, by prostration, paid his tribute of veneration to the nerve of the Yankee.

The lieutenant now ripped out as many handsome oaths and threats as a person could wish, and advanced to take the helm himself. Chauncy stepped before him, and upon the Englishman's laying his hand upon it, seized him by the scruff of the neck and threw him overboard into the boat. Upon this the lieutenant and his men went off and Capt. C. was presently boarded by 60 or 70 men, among them the first officer of "his majesty's ship," who abused Capt. C. in words not a little for his treatment to the lieutenant; who replied, I treated the puppy as he deserved. He either did not know his duty and the manners of a gentleman, or would not exercise them. You have now a superior force on board the ship; do what you please.

Capt. C. then went on board the man of war, where he received some more compliments from the Commodore, to which he replied in the same manner—without