More critical invective, from an unsigned article "Naval Sketch-Book" in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 19 (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1826), page 354: [boldface added]

...Why, you write at the best like a Horse-marine. In that beautiful song of yours, "A wet sheet and a flowing sea,"—you absolutely know no more than a tailor the meaning of the word "sheet." You think it a sail, and so do all land-lubber bards; but it is no such thing, as you may learn from the skipper of any dirt-gabbert; and,—nay, Allan, how could you, with your eyes open, maintain, that when a ship sails from an English port, "and the billow follows free," that she can "leave England on the lee?" The thing is impossible. To have done that, in any sense, your ship should have been on a wind. Besides, to "leave England on the lee," would be no easy job in any wind that ever blew; for, while part of England was to leeward, part, we presume, would be to windward; and, finally, "on the lee" is not a nautical expression at all; nor, if it were changed into one, would it speak what you intend to say,—that the shore seemed to drop astern. Now, Allan Cunninghame [sic], if you cannot write three lines of verse about a boat, without perpetrating all manner of blunders, what is to become of you when America shows "the little bit of striped bunting," and the meteor-flag of England braves the battle and the breeze?