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 take the name and bear the arms of Dundas, in addition to his own.

From March, 1809, until the end of the same year, Captain Dundas commanded the Stately 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thomas Bertie, on the Baltic station. His next appointments were, about Feb. 1812, to the Venerable 74 (pro tempore); and, Sept. following, to the Pyramus 38, in which frigate he brought Sir James Saumarez from Gottenburg to England, at the close of 1812.

During the remainder of the war, Captain Dundas was employed cruising in the Channel, where he captured la Ville de l’Orient French privateer, of 14 guns and 97 men; together with several American letters of marque. We subsequently find him commanding the Tagus frigate, on the Mediterranean station.

Agent.– Messrs. Barnett and King. 

 officer entered the naval service in 1790, as a midshipman on board the Kite cutter, and continued in that vessel, principally on the Irish station, until the commencement of the French revolutionary war in 1793; when he joined the Romulus frigate, commanded by Captain (now Sir John) Sutton; under whom he served as master’s-mate, at the occupation of Toulon, and on various other services, of which the following is an outline.

We shall begin by stating, that the Romulus, although in so sickly a state when she arrived at Gibraltar, from England, as to be obliged to send nearly 100 men to the hospital, was nevertheless one of the first ships that entered the port of Toulon with marines, &c. sent to take possession of that town and its defences. She was afterwards ordered to Leghorn, where her commander received information that several republican armed vessels and privateers had been annoying the