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 Previous to this misfortune, he had assisted at the destruction of an enemy’s convoy, at Herqui, near Cape Frehél.

On his being exchanged, after an imprisonment of 16 months, Mr. Carroll joined the Syren frigate, Captain Thomas Le Marchant Gosselyn, under whom he served at the capture of Surinam, Aug. 20, 1799. In July 1800, when assisting in an attack upon a French vessel, he was severely wounded in the left side by a musket-ball, which, after some time, was extracted, close to his back-bone.

In 1801, Mr. Carroll was removed to the Sans Pareil 80, bearing the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour, commander-in-chief at Jamaica; whose remains he accompanied to England, in the Sting schooner, towards the end of that year.

After passing his examination, Jan. 1, 1802, Mr. Carroll immediately joined the St. Fiorenzo frigate, and proceeded in her to the East India station; where he was appointed acting lieutenant of the Centurion 50, in Aug. 1803. The gallant manner in which that small two-decker was defended, when attacked in Vizagapatam road, by a French 80-gun ship and two frigates of the largest class, Sept. 18, 1804, has been fully described.

Mr. Carroll’s commission was confirmed by the Admiralty, May 15, 1804; but it appears, from Captain Lind’s report of the above action, that he had not then received the usual notification thereof. We next find him serving as flag-lieutenant to Sir W. Sidney Smith, in the Pompée 74, on the coasts of Naples and Calabria. In the night of May 11, 1806, he “particularly distinguished himself” at the storming of the island of Capri; and on the 23d of the same month he was again officially praised for his “extreme exertions,” in bringing off 2 long 36-pounders, which were found in an enemy’s vessel, lying on the beach at Scalea.

In Jan. 1807, Lieutenant Carroll accompanied Sir W. Sidney Smith to the Dardanelles, on the memorable expedition against Constantinople. After the destruction of the