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 , April 2, 1801. She subsequently proceeded to Gibraltar, where Mr. Stamp became first lieutenant, in which capacity he continued to serve until she was paid off, on her return from the West Indies, in 1802.

During the peace of Amiens, Mr. Stamp obtained the command of a West Indiaman, and he was about to sail from the river Humber for Grenada, when he received an appointment to the Terrible 74, in which ship he served as senior lieutenant under his warm and constant friend. Lord Henry Paulet, for a period of 6 years.

After the renewal of hostilities, in 1803, the Terrible was employed in the blockade of the enemy’s ports; and she formed part of the squadron under Sir Richard J. Strachan, when that officer went to St. Helena, in quest of Jerome Buonaparte and his companions.

On the 19th May, 1806, Sir Richard again sailed from Plymouth in pursuit of the same French squadron; and on this occasion he was likewise accompanied by the Terrible. After cruising for some time off Madeira and the Canaries, he proceeded to Barbadoes, where he received so good information, that the night of Aug. 18th fell upon him, and the object of his search, nearly in the same latitude, and within a degree of the same longitude. In the tremendous hurricane which then commenced, and continued with unabated violence for 36 hours, the Terrible was totally dismasted, and had all her boats either blown or washed away; her tiller snapped in two, and the spare one was scarcely shipped before it broke also: – in this alarming situation, and left to the fury of the storm, without a vessel of any description in sight, one of the lower-deck guns nearly got adrift, but providentially, through the active exertions of her officers and crew, the imminent danger that seemed to threaten every one on board was speedily averted. In 48 hours after the hurricane subsided, she was completely jury-rigged, and ready to set studding-sails if wanted!!

We next find the Terrible employed on the Mediterranean