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 commanded a small detached squadron during the remainder of 1812. In Oct. he reported the capture of a Danish rowboat, mounting 2 brass guns and 1 swivel, with a complement of 30 men; and le Pilotin French lugger privateer, of four 12-pounder carronades and 31 men. The former vessel was taken by a single boat’s crew, under the command of his first Lieutenant, Mr. Horace Petley; the latter by a detachment of boats, under the directions of the same gallant othcer, assisted by Lieutenant Frank Cutler, of the Clio.

In the evening of Feb. 28, 1813, when off Beachy Head, on her return to the Baltic station, the Hamadryad was fired at by a French lugger, which had been skulking under the land. Captain Chetham immediately tacked, brought the enemy under his lee-guns, and returned the salute with a few shot; but unfortunately the lugger persisted so obstinately in her endeavours to escape, that she overset and sunk at such a distance from the frigate as precluded the possibility of saving any of her crew.

During the whole of the ensuing season. Captain Chetham commanded a light squadron stationed in the Sleeve; and at the close of the year he captured the Abigail, Danish national cutter, with a cargo of naval stores, from Frederickswarn bound to Copenhagen.

In 1814, the Hamadryad was employed on the Newfoundland station, from whence she towed the Paragon, a dismasted merchant ship, with a very valuable cargo, to Halifax. For this service, performed during a heavy gale of wind. Captain Chetham received the public thanks of the merchants to whom she was consigned. The Hamadryad returned home in Jan. 1815, and was paid off at Woolwich on the 7th of the following month.

Captain Chetham’s last appointment was, May 1816, to the Leander 60, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Milne, commander-in-chief on the Halifax station. The cause of that ship being afterwards placed under the orders of Lord 