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  Sir Digby Dent into the Cumberland 74, which ship was shortly afterwards placed under the command of Captain William Allen, to whom he was strongly recommended by his early and constant patron, whose ill health had obliged him to retire from active service.

On the 6th Feb. 1782, the Cumberland sailed for India, in company with a squadron under Commodore Sir Richard Bickerton (to whose favorable notice Mr. Mounsey was likewise recommended), and she appears to have sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 11 wounded in the last battle between Sir Edward Hughes and M. de Suffrein, fought off Cuddalore, June 20, 1783.

Mr. Mounsey returned to England in May, 1784; and served the remainder of his time as midshipman on board the Orestes sloop. Captain Manley Dixon. After passing the usual examination, he successively joined the Arethusa frigate, Captain John Stanhope; Victory of 100 guns, bearing the flag of Lord Hood during the Spanish and Russian armaments; Duke 98, flag-ship of the same noble veteran in 1792; and Juno frigate, Captain Samuel Hood.

At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, Mr. Mounsey was again received on board the Victory, in which ship Lord Hood was then about to sail for the Mediterranean. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place May 22, 1793, on which occasion he was appointed by his Lordship to the Ardent 64, Captain Robert Manners Sutton.

Mr. Mounsey was now about to enter into a series of very active and hazardous services. On the arrival of the fleet under Lord Hood at Gibraltar, he received an appointment to the Lowestoffe frigate, Captain William Wolseley, under whose command he assisted at the occupation of Toulon ; the attack upon Fornelli, in Corsica; and the reduction of St. Fiorenzo, Bastia, and Calvi. During the blockade of Bastia, he volunteered his services to cut out a vessel from under a battery on the island of Capraja, and the protection of 