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 capture of la Favorite, French cutter privateer, of 14 guns and 70 men.

In July 1809, the subject of this memoir embarked as a volunteer on board the Superb 74, bearing the flag of Sir R. G. Keats, and forming part of the grand armament destined to act against the enemy’s forces in the Scheldt. During the whole of that campaign he commanded a flotilla of gun-boats, and his conduct on every occasion was highly spoken of by the naval commander-in-chief, from whose public despatches, reporting the surrender of Camvere and Flushing we make the following extracts:

“Aug. 4, 1809.– The fire of the gun-boats was exceedingly well-directed, and did much damage to the (former) town. The officers and men engaged in that service had a great claim to my admiration. Three of our gun-boats were sunk.”

“Aug. 17.– I cannot conclude this letter without assuring their Lordships that every captain, officer, seaman, and marine, have most zealously done their duty; nor will it, I hope, be thought taking away from the merits of others, in drawing their Lordships’ particular notice to the energetic exertions of the captains, officers, and men employed in the gun-boats: they have been constantly under fire, and gone through all the hardships of their situation with the utmost cheerfulness.”

The hardships alluded to by Sir Richard J. Strachan, are more fully noticed by a surgeon belonging to one of the bomb-vessels, in whose diary we find the following passages:

“Aug. 2,– At half-past 11, in consequence of being sent for, I went on hoard the Harpy brig. A poor man belonging to one of the gun-boats, had been shot through both arms, and was brought for assistance to the Harpy. Before my arrival, Mr. Parsons, Surgeon of the Harpy, and Mr. Mortimer, Assistant-Surgeon of the Charger gun-brig, had amputated the right arm, and the tourniquet was already fixed on the other. Both arms had been shockingly fractured and lacerated. The man expired in five or six minutes after my arrival. He had been wounded an hour and a half