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 third trip Lieutenant Money succeeded in taking off the last of her crew, &c. all of whom were thrown overboard when close to the Lively, and hauled up over the taffrail by ropes fastened around them. The intrepid Lieutenant and his companions then regained the ship by similar means, and the jolly-boat was cut adrift, it being impossible to save her.

From this period, we lose sight of Mr. Money until his promotion to the rank of Commander, Nov. 9, 1809. In April 1814, he received an appointment to the Trave 36, armed en flûte, in which ship he conveyed part of the 4th regiment of infantry from the river Garonne to North America, where he was soon engaged in a variety of important services, as will be seen by the following official details:

“After parting; from you at Benedict, on the evening of the 20th instant, I proceeded up the Patuxent with the boats and tenders, the marines of the ships being embarked in them, under the command of Captain John Robyns (the senior officer of that corps in the fleet), and the marine-artillery, under Captain Harrison, in their two tenders; the Severn and Hebrus frigates, and the Manly sloop, being directed to follow us up the river as far as might prove practicable.

“The boats and tenders I placed in three divisions: the first under the immediate command of Captains Thomas Ball Sulivan and William Stanhope Badcock; the second under Captains Rowland Money and the Hon. Kenelm Somerville; the third under Captain Robert Ramsay; and the whole under the superintendence and immediate management of Captain Wainwright, of the Tonnant; Lieutenant James Scott, acting first of the Albion, attending as my aide-de-camp.

“I endeavoured to keep with the boats and tenders as nearly as possible abreast of the army under Major-General Ross, that I might communicate with him as occasion offered, according to the plan previously arranged; and about noon yesterday, I accordingly anchored at the ferry-house opposite Lower Marlborough, where I met the General, and where the army halted for some hours; after which he marched for Nottingham, and I proceeded on for the same place with the boats. On our approaching that town, a few shot were exchanged between the leading boats and some of the enemy’s cavalry; but the appearance of our army advancing caused them to retire with precipitation. Captains Nourse and Palmer, of the Severn and Hebrus, joined me this day with their boats, having found it impracticable to get their ships higher than Benedict.

