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 , commanding the advanced guard, a most excellent and valuable officer, as well as Major O’Keefe, of the 12th regiment, whom I have also every reason sincerely to regret.

“In the course of the forenoon, the army occupied a position in front of the enemy’s lines, just beyond the range of cannon-shot; on the following morning, while I was employed in making arrangements for detaching a corps to the southern side of the town, and placing myself in a situation to make a general attack. General De Caen proposed to capitulate. Many pf the articles appeared to Vice-Admiral Bertie and myself to be perfectly inadmissible; but the French governor having, in the course of the same day, acceded to our terms, a capitulation for the surrender of this colony and its dependencies was finally concluded. The most perfect harmony and cordiality have subsisted between the navy and army; and I have received every assistance from Vice-Admiral Bertie, and the squadron under his command. A body of seamen was landed under Captain Montagu; the exertions used to bring forward the guns, through a most difficult country, were such as to attract the admiration of the whole army, and fully entitles Captain Montagu, Lieutenant Lloyd, of the Africaine, and every officer and sailor, to all the encomiums I can pass on their conduct.”

Captain Montagu, in his official report to the naval commander-in-chief, says, “The zeal and ability of Lieutenant Lloyd, senior lieutenant on this service, are too well known to you to render any encomium from me necessary;” and Vice-Admiral Bertie, when transmitting the same to the Admiralty, “begged to recommend to their lordships’ notice. Lieutenant Edward Lloyd, who volunteered his services under the immediate eye of the commander of the land forces, and in this, as well as many former instances, received the most honorable testimonies of his gallantry.” Some extracts of Major-General Abercromby’s public orders, wherein he paid repeated compliments to the naval brigade, have been inserted.

After the conquest of the Mauritius, Lieutenant Lloyd was appointed to the command of the Hesper sloop, and selected by Major-General Abercromby to convey him and his staff to Bombay. On his arrival there, he had the mortification to find an officer waiting to supersede him by order of the then deceased Vice-Admiral Drury, who, in consequence of a disagreement with Vice-Admiral Bertie, had taken this step long before the Hesper arrived within the precincts of the East India