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  to the British interests in the Archipelago, and I learn with much satisfaction the general tranquillity of affairs in that quarter.

(Signed)“Ed. Pellew.”

Immediately after the peace with France, in 1814, Captain Clavell was sent from the Mediterranean, with a detachment under his command, to Bermuda, where he joined Rear-Admiral (now Sir George) Cockburn, who took the Orlando to the Chesapeake, and there left him in command of five frigates and four sloops, which squadron continued under his charge until the final termination of hostilities between Great Britain and America, in Feb. 1815. On the 7th of that month. Sir George Cockburn wrote to him from Cumberland Island, as follows:

Captain Clavell did not leave the above bay until the middle of April, when he sailed for Bermuda, bringing away with him all the ordnance and stores of every description from Tangier Island, and also every negro who had deserted from the Americans and claimed British protection prior to the ratification of the treaty of Ghent. A copy of the letter of thanks addressed to each captain and commander of the squadron under the immediate orders of Sir George Cockburn, previous to that officer’s departure from Bermuda for England, has been given.

The Orlando was paid off, and re-commissioned by Captain Clavell, for the East India station, Aug. 17, 1815. In Oct. following, she sailed for Canton with a quantity of specie on board, and the Hon. Company’s ship Thomas Grenville under her protection. About the end of the year 1818, being found in want of an extensive repair, she was ordered to be laid up at Trincomalee, and her officers and crew were turned over to the Malabar, a new 74, in which ship Captain Clavell returned home in Sept. 1819, after an absence of nearly four years. Previous to his quitting India, he received a letter of thanks from Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King, for his services on that station. The Orlando appears to have been the first ship that proceeded thither on the peace establishment.

