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 station, and whose death deprived him of the power of appealing to his justice for a reconsideration of the injury he had done him ; that too, at the moment when the Hesper was ordered to join the expedition fitting out for the reduction of Java.

In preference to returning home, Lieutenant Lloyd remained passenger on board the Hesper, until her arrival at Malacca, where he found his old Monte Video friend, Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty, and immediately volunteered to serve under him in the approaching campaign. His offer being readily accepted, he landed with that officer’s staff at Chillingching, bore a part in the skirmish between the advanced divisions of the British and Dutch armies, which ended in the defeat of the latter, and the capture of the important post of Weltervreeden; also at the battle which took place when the enemy made a sortie from Meester Cornelis; assisted in storming their entrenched camp at the latter place; and shared in every operation on shore previous to that brilliant event.

He afterwards embarked with Captain (now Sir Christopher) Cole, in the Caroline frigate, for a passage to England, where he arrived about the middle of Dec. 1811; and had the satisfaction of finding himself confirmed as a commander from the 9th May preceding. We should here remark, that he left England as master’s mate, and that he obtained each step of professional rank by his services alone, without the aid of any interest whatever at the Admiralty.

This officer’s next appointment was, Jan. 21, 1814, to the command of the Raven, 16-gun brig, then stationed in the Woopherkdyk, to blockade the enemy’s flotilla at Ter Veere, during the occupation of the East Scheldt, by the fleet under Admiral William Young, who refused his offer to join in the attack upon Bergen-op-Zoom, but afforded him this opportunity of witnessing the operations against Batz.

After the emancipation of Holland, Captain Lloyd conveyed despatches to Halifax, encountering on his passage thither a violent hurricane, which obliged him to throw overboard