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  officer entered the navy, 1798, as midshipman on board the Dictator 64, then in attendance upon his late Majesty, at Weymouth; but afterwards employed in conveying troops to and from Ireland, and bringing Russian soldiers from Revel, to co-operate with the British forces in Holland. She was subsequently attached to a secret expedition, under Lieutenant-General Sir James Pulteney and Rear-Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, whom she joined just after the termination of the Ferrol affair, in August 1800. On the 30th of that month, Mr. Lloyd assisted in towing out from under the batteries of Redondella, in Vigo Bay, where she had been most gallantly boarded and carried by a division of boats, under Lieutenant Henry Burke, of the Renown, la Guipe French ship privateer, of 18 long 9-pounders and 161 men.

We next find the Dictator forming part of the force under Lord Keith, when that officer, in conjunction with Sir Ralph Abercromby, made arrangements for attacking Cadiz, but yielded to the eloquent and manly pleading of the governor, Don Thomas de Morla, in favor of the unfortunate inhabitants, thousands of whom were afflicted with an epidemic disease, which in the extent of its ravages was as fatal as the plague.

After this demonstration before Cadiz, the Dictator, with part of the Coldstream regiment of foot-guards on board, accompanied the grand expedition to Marmorice, in Asia Minor, where, being employed in various duties on shore, Mr. Lloyd was frequently invited to breakfast with the Turkish Aga, on which occasions he took care to have his boat’s crew constantly near at hand, and armed with stretchers. He was also entrusted with the command of a boat, at the debarkation in Aboukir bay, March 8th, 1801; when many a fine fellow