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 re-established for service in a tropical climate, Lieutenant Dillon joined the Glenmore frigate, forming part of a squadron employed co-operating with the King’s troops in the suppression of the Irish rebellion. Whilst on that service he assisted in taking possession of Wexford, and was afterwards sent with a brother officer to apprehend a man named Skallion, who had assumed the appellation of Admiral, and borne a conspicuous part in all the treasonable proceedings of that alarming period. The discovery and caption of this traitor was attended with considerable risk, as he was to be searched for and secured in the midst of a disaffected populace; but by good management he was conducted to head-quarters without injury to either party. On delivering up their prisoner, Lieutenant Dillon and his companion received the thanks of a court-martial then sitting (to try such offenders), for the very effectual and expeditious manner in which they had fulfilled their mission.

In the course of the same year. Lieutenant Dillon was successively appointed to the Venerable 74, and Crescent frigate; the latter commanded by Captain William Granville Lobb, under whom he sailed for Barbadoes and Jamaica, in company with a fleet of merchantmen, about Sept. 1799. The capture of El Galgo, Spanish brig of war, near the Mona passage, is thus officially described by that officer in a letter to Sir Hyde Parker, dated at Port Royal, on the 22d Nov, following:

“On the 15th instant, the S.W. end of Porto Rico bearing N.E. 10 or 12 leagues, we fell in with a squadron consisting of a line-of-battle ship, frigate, and corvette. As the two former were directly in our course on the larboard tack, I made the convoy signal to haul to the wind on the starboard tack; then made sail to reconnoitre them; and on joining the Calypso (stoop), which had previously chased, perfectly coincided with Captain (Joseph) Baker, that they were enemies. The line-of-battle ship and frigate keeping close together, I was in great hopes of drawing them from the convoy, by keeping within random shot to windward; and bore up for that purpose, making the Calypso’s signal to chase N.W. the direction the body of the convoy was then in: at 9, the enemy tacked, and I