Daily National Intelligencer

WASHINGTON

FRIDAY, JULY 7.

THE LAST VICTORY.

For the following particulars of this brilliant action, the Editors of the Mercantile Advertiser are indebted to the arrival at N. York on Tuesday morning of the U. S. brig Tom-Bowline, Capt. Carleton, from a cruise in the Pacific Ocean.

The Tom-Bowline sailed from New York on the 13th Jan. in company with the United States frigate President and sloops of war Hornet and Peacock, and private armed merchant brig Macedonian, and parted company with the Hornet on the third day out, and did not fall in with her again until the 24th of March, off the Island of Tristan de Cunha.- When they first made her she had in company the British sloop of war Penguin, her prize, and apprehending the Peacock and Tom-Bowline were British cruizers, she scuttled her. The following are the particulars of the action, furnished by Lt. Brownlow of the Marines, belonging to the Hornet, who has in charge the colors of the Penguin and despatches for government. On the 23d March, off the Island of Tristan de Cunha, the Hornet, Capt. Biddle, rated 18, and mounted 20 guns, (eighteen 32 lb. carronades and two long 12's) fell in with his Majesty's sloop of war Penguin, rated 18 and mounting 21 guns, (eighteen 32lb carronades, two long 12's, one 12lb carronade on the forecastle, and 2 brass swivels in her tops,) with a crew of one hundred fifty-eight men, and after an action of twenty-two minutes succeeded in capturing her, with the loss on board the H. of only one man killed and 11 wounded. The loss on board the Penguin was 17 killed, including Captain and Boatswain, and 23 wounded.

Lieutenant Brownlow informs, that about a minute after the Penguin struck to the Hornet, and the action had ceased, a shot was fired from the Penguin, which wounded Capt. Biddle severely in the neck, but from which he was fast recovering. The Penguin was much shattered, having 32 round shot in her hull, her foremast shot away 4 feet above deck, and bowsprit close to the knight heads. The Hornet came off with the loss of her spanker boom carried away by a round shot, and several grape in her hull. During the engagement, Lieut. Connor of the Hornet was wounded in the hand and through the thigh, and in that situation remained on deck till the battle was over, peremptorily refusing to be carried below. The day after the action, the Tom Bowline in co. with the Peacock fell in with the Hornet, and then put into the island of Tristan de Cunha, in the Brazils, where they remained for twenty days, and then made a cartel of the T. Bowline and sent her with the prisoners to St. Salvador, where they were landed. Before the T. B. left Tristan de Cunha,, capt. Biddle had nearly recovered from his wounds so as to be considered out of danger. The Hornet spoke a neutral vessel two or three days before the action who informed of the peace, but Capt. Biddle did not believe it.-The Tom Bowline did not hear of the peace until she arrived at St. Salvador. The brig Macedonian which sailed from this port in co. with the T. Bowline, touched at Tristan de Cunha, and then proceeded on her voyage to the East Indies. Left at St. Salvador, the private armed brig True Blooded Yankee, bound to the Isle of France, and the privateer Blakely, Williams, of Boston, bound to Havanna. Spoke on the 26th, in lat. 36, long. 69, brig Trumbull, Hardy, from Bath for Matanzas.

The T. Bowline brought home upwards of 100 of the crews of the T. B. Yankee, and Blakely.