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 on his gallant associates to the very last moment. Mr. John Lamont and several men were likewise killed; and only 14 out of 38 persons succeeded in effecting their escape: even some of these, including Mr. Lloyd, were wounded.”

The enemy marked their sense of the extraordinary boldness of this attack, by interring the remains of Messrs. M‘Lean and Lamont with military honors; and the managers of the Patriotic Fund evinced their admiration of the same, by voting Mr. Lloyd a pecuniary reward, to which was added an honorary testimonial, it not being in the power of the committee to grant him a sword instead of the donation, as he had particularly requested. Captain Honyman’s official letter was never made public.

On the 24th April, 1805, Mr. Lloyd assisted at the capture of seven schuyts, from Dunkirk, bound to Ambleteuse, armed with eighteen guns and one howitzer, and having on board 168 men, exclusive of officers. About the same period he volunteered his services in a “catamaran” expedition, and placed one of the explosion machines precisely as directed: the peg is still in his possession. Some other services in which he was a participator, have been noticed.

In the ensuing summer, this officer was strongly recommended by Admiral Sir John Colpoys to the commander-in-Chief on the Jamaica station; but, although certain of promotion if he proceeded thither, he declined, in consequence of the Leda being ordered to join a secret expedition, preparing for the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope. By his careful look-out and timely exertions, as officer of the middle watch, that fine frigate was saved from destruction, Nov. 1, 1805, when the King George transport and Britannia East Indiaman were both totally lost, in consequence of striking on the Roccas, near Fernando Norunha, about four degrees south of the equator. The particulars of her escape and their destruction are given in the Naval Chronicle, Vol. 23rd, pp. 483-485.

During the operations against the Dutch force at the Cape of Good Hope, in Jan. 1806, Mr. Lloyd served as a volunteer on shore, and was employed in bringing forward the 