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 chief mate. On his arrival in England, he passed the usual examination, and immediately afterwards joined the Director 64, Captain Thomas West, under whom he served until his promotion into the Repulse 64; at the close of the Spanish armament.

In April, 1791, Mr. Evans received an appointment to the Racehorse sloop, Captain David Mackey; and on that vessel being paid off and re-commissioned, after the Russian armament, he was appointed first Lieutenant of her, at the particular request of the same commander.

From this period. Lieutenant Evans served in the Racehorse, under Captains Mackey, George Hope, and James Leakey, until the commencement of the French revolutionary war, when he was removed into la Concorde frigate. Captain Thomas Wells.

The following anecdote of a British sailor, appears to us worthy of being here recorded:–

In one of her cruises, la Concorde encountered a heavy gale of wind, and the ship laboured so exceedingly, that only the quarter-masters and gunner’s crew would venture to go aloft: seeing this, Mr. Evans, then junior Lieutenant, took the lead, followed by a single midshipman, for the purpose of