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the 19th of January 1801, a commission was signed at the Admiralty appointing me lieutenant of His Majesty's sloop, to which the name of the ship, heretofore known as the Xenophon, was changed by this commission; and captain John Henry Martin having received orders to consider himself to be superseded, I took the command at Sheerness on the 25th of the same month.