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  of Copenhagen. On the surrender of the Danish navy, he was promoted by that officer to the command of the Curlew sloop, and his commission appears to have been confirmed by the Admiralty, Oct. 13, 1807.

From this period we lose sight of Captain Lowe until the summer of 1809; when, being on half-pay, he volunteered his services in the expedition against Walcheren, and commanded a division of the light flotilla at the bombardment of Camvere, on which occasion, says Sir Richard J. Strachan, “the fire of the gun-boats was exceedingly well-directed, and did much damage to the town; the officers and crews engaged in that service had a great claim to my admiration for their conduct: three of our gun-boats were sunk.”

After the surrender of Camvere and the reduction of the fort of Rammekens, Captain Lowe was employed in cutting off the communication between Flushing and Cadsand: he subsequently proceeded up the West Scheldt, and assisted Sir Home Popham in sounding and buoying the channels of that river, to enable the line-of-battle ships and frigates to advance, for the purpose of putting into execution the ulterior objects of the expedition. This service was performed “with judgment and correctness.”

While employed in the Scheldt, Captain Lowe was appointed by Rear-Admiral W. A. Otway to the command of the Sabrina sloop; and on his return to England, in Jan. 1810, he was removed from her to the Diligence of 16 guns, in which vessel he served on the Baltic station, under the orders of Sir James Saumarez, until March 1812. He there captured three or four Danish privateers, and was engaged in every species of service incidental to naval warfare, except that of getting alongside of an enemy of either equal or superior force; and this, as already stated, the station afforded no chance of.

Captain Lowe’s next appointment was, Aug. 12, 1812, to the Jalouse 18, in which sloop he served on the Irish and Jamaica stations, under Sir Edward Thornbrough and the late Rear-Admiral William Brown, until promoted to post rank, June 7, 1814. In the early part of 1815, we find him commanding the Larne 20, and cruising off the Western