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 patronised by his nephew, Lord Hervey, under whom he served in various ships until the conclusion of the American war. During the ensuing peace, he was successively received on board the Zebra and Falcon sloops, Captains Edward Pakenham and V. C. Berkeley, stationed in the West Indies; Unicorn 20, Captain Charles Stirling, for a passage home, after suffering shipwreck in the Cyrus transport; Leviathan 74, Captain Lord Mulgrave, fitting in expectation of a war with Spain, in 1790; and Assurance 44, Captain John Shortland, employed in conveying stores to Halifax.

The latter ship being paid off in 1792, and his noble patron then abroad, Mr. Harvey next entered on board a West Indiaman, from which he was impressed by the Vanguard 74, Captain John Stanhope, at the commencement of hostilities against France, in 1793. Having then passed his examination about three years, he was immediately rated master’s mate of that ship; and shortly afterwards recommended to the notice of Sir John Jervis, from whom he received his first commission, at the Leeward Islands, in 1794.

On this occasion, Mr. Harvey, who had been removed from the Vanguard to the Boyne, on promotion, was appointed to the Ceres 32; but that frigate having sailed for England, he received an order to join the Vengeance 74, pro tempore; from which ship he was landed with a party of seamen to co-operate with the British army in Guadaloupe, after the recapture of that island by the French forces under Victor Hugues.

Previous to his return home (in the Boyne), Lieutenant