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 , which service received the approbation of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. He was landed with the small-arm men from the Raisonable, at the attack on St. Paul’s, and at the final capture of Isle Bourbon was entrusted with the difficult charge of placing a transport as a breakwater, to facilitate the landing of the troops. All these services he performed with considerable zeal, courage, and ability. It would be doing him injustice not to add, that he was foremost to volunteer his services on every occasion of difficulty or danger.

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During the passage of the expedition under Sir Home Popham and Brigadier-General Beresford, from the Cape to Rio de la Plata, Captain Rowley added a number of volunteer seamen to the detachment of marines serving on board the Raisonable, and dressed and accoutred them similarly to the men of that corps. He also allowed Mr. Lloyd to select a company of “grenadiers” from among the ship’s company, who were equipped as artillery-men, styled “Royal Blues,” and, together with 150 other sailors, intended to serve as light infantry, &c. &c. constantly drilled by Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Pack, and the officers and men of H.M. 71st regiment.

The first landing in South America was effected at Point Quelmey à Pouchin, about 12 miles from Buenos Ayres, June the 25th, 1806 ; from which period, Mr. Lloyd commanded the Raisonable’s “royal blues,” and shared in every military operation that took place, until the final evacuation of that country, after Lieutenant-General Whitelocke’s capitulation in July, 1807. At this latter period, he was likewise acting as aide-de-camp to Captain Rowley, who had the chief command of all the seamen on shore, employed in dragging the heavy artillery through swamps several miles in extent, as is officially acknowledged.

During the blockade of the Isles of France and Bourbon, Lieutenant Lloyd frequently accompanied Captain (now Sir Nisbet) Willoughby, in boat expeditions alongshore; and