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 him engaged with the enemy. In addition to the dangers of this most arduous and harassing service, he was exposed to very great privations in his little vessel, the Watchful, whose cabin for himself and a midshipman was only 7 feet long and 3 high, out of which he never slept from Sept. 1810 until June 1811!

An attack made upon the French gun-boats at Port Santa Maria, Nov. 23, 1810, is thus described by Sir Richard G. Keats, in a letter to Admiral Sir Charles Cotton:–

On the above occasion. Captain Fellowes was engaged with fort Catalina from 2-30 P.M. until 10 o’clock at night. Towards the close of the following month, a combined attack was likewise made upon the enemy’s flotilla below Puerto Real; the castle of Puntales at the same time engaging the forts on the opposite tongue of land, and the bombs keeping Catalina in play. The action commenced at 1 P.M. and did not cease until all the French vessels there, seventeen in number, were completely disabled.

On the day after the glorious battle of Barrosa, Captain Fellowes greatly distinguished himself by his gallantry in storming a 4-gun battery, surrounded by a ditch and spiked stockade, at the entrance of Port Sauta Maria, under a