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544 Cumberlaiul and Vanguard took a schooner, from Cuba, with 100 blood-hounds, intended to accompany the French army serving against the Blacks.

On his return from the Jamaica station, Captain Bayntun was appointed to the Leviathan, another 74-gun ship, and ordered to the Mediterranean, where he joined the fleet under Lord Nelson, with whom he went in pursuit of the combined squadrons of France and Spain. On the glorious 21st Oct., 1805, the Leviathan passed through the enemy’s line, and had assisted in disabling and silencing the French Admiral’s ship, as also the huge Santissima Trinidada, when Captain Bayntun found himself much galled by a distant cannonade from several other of the enemy’s ships; at length, the Saint Augustin, of 74 g uns ? bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Cazigal, gave him an opportunity of closing with her, which was immediately embraced, and she was soon compelled to surrender. The loss sustained by the Leviathan was very trifling, considering how warmly she had been engaged; it amounted to only 4 men killed and 22 wounded. After the battle, her prize was set on fire and destroyed. At the funeral of his lamented chief, in Jan. 1806, Captain Bayntun bore the Guidon, in the procession by water from Greenwich Hospital.

Towards the latter end of the same year, our officer accompanied the expedition under Rear-Admiral Murray and 