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Rh  place Oct. 24, 1794; and from that date he remained unemployed until the spring of 1803, when he was appointed to the command of the Glatton, of 54 guns, in the Baltic, from whence he returned to England in the ensuing autumn; and on his arrival at Chatham, was ordered to take the command of the Isis, a 50-gun ship then in dock, and to fit her out with the utmost expedition.

The exertions used by Captain Nowell on this occasion are worthy of notice. Notwithstanding he had to fit the ship with new rigging, and but very few seamen among his crew, yet on the ninth day she was taken to the Nore fully equipped and ready for sea. The Isis formed part of the force assembled off the French coast under Lord Nelson, of whom Captain Nowell, with several other officers of the same rank, requested permission to assist in the attack made upon the Boulogne flotilla, but which his Lordship, with his usual consideration, handsomely declined to grant, as in the event of success, their presence would probably have been of some hindrance to the