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 heavy fire of grape from all the neighbouring works. In the performance of this service, he was bravely seconded by Lieutenant Style. The following is an extract of the official letter in which Sir Richard G. Keats makes mention of this exploit:–

In the performance of this highly important service, the British had one gun-boat sunk before Catalina; but their whole loss amounted to only 3 men killed and 13 wounded, 2 of whom mortally.

Although Captain Fellowes was advanced to post rank on the 4th Mar. 1811, he did not quit Cadiz until June following, at which period he was succeeded by Captain William Fairbrother Carroll: from the time of Captain Hall’s departure until then, he had been most handsomely and skilfully seconded on every occasion by Captain Frederick Jennings Thomas, whose valuable services we shall soon have to relate. A fuller account of the occurrences at and near Cadiz, during the period that Sir Richard G. Keats commanded the naval force there, will be given under the head of Captain William Henry Smyth.

The subject of this memoir was next appointed, Feb. 1812, to the Fawn, a small post-ship, in which he cruised for some time on the Channel station, and subsequently escorted a