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 bringing them off at a very critical moment, the enemy being then in the act of entering the fort, with such a force as would have rendered the most determined resistance unavailable.

We next find Captain Chetham proceeding to Pillau, where he received the personal thanks of the Prussian monarch for his bravery on the 17th April, as also for the other services performed by him during his continuance in Fairwater, a period of nearly six weeks. It was in consequence of his dashing conduct on that day, his unremitted endeavours to relieve the garrison of Dantzic, and his zealous behaviour on other occasions, whilst commanding the Sally, that the Admiralty were pleased to include him in the promotion which took place among the officers of Lord Gambier’s fleet, Oct. 13, 1807.

In June, 1809, the subject of this memoir was appointed acting Captain of the Illustrious 74; in which ship he accompanied the expedition to the Scheldt, where we find him actively employed, landing troops and artillery, until Aug. 9, when he was superseded by her proper commander, the late Captain William Robert Broughton.

For eight months from this period. Captain Chetham appears to have laboured under the effects of the Walcheren ague and fever, with which he was afflicted at the time of his departure for England. In June 1810, however, we find him sufficiently recovered to accept another command ; and he was accordingly appointed to the Leyden 64, armed en flute; in which ship, when passing through the straits of Messina, with troops sent out to defend Sicily, he was warmly engaged with the enemy’s batteries and flotilla, she being becalmed within gun-shot of the Calabrian shore. He was subsequently employed conveying troops to and from England, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean.

Captain Chetham’s next appointment was. May 7, 1812, to the Hamadryad frigate; but as she was then at sea, he did not assume the command of that ship until her arrival at Spithead, on the 13th of the following month.

After watching the harbour of Cherburgh for about two months. Captain Chetham proceeded to the Baltic, where he