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Rh Early in 1799, Captain Raper was appointed to l’Aimable Frigate; and towards the latter end of that year, sailed from Cork, in company with the Glenmore, of 44 guns, and a fleet of merchantmen, bound to the West Indies. On the 17th Dec, they fell in with la Syrene, a heavy French frigate, and la Bergere corvette, from Cayenne, having the celebrated Victor Hugues on board. These vessels had just before captured the Calcutta, an extra East Indiaman, and were removing her crew, when, on the clearing up of a fog, they were discovered to leeward, by Captain Duff of the Glenmore, who retook the Calcutta. Captain Raper, in the mean time, pursued the French men ofwar, and in a spirited manner brought them to action, which continued for 35 minutes, when they made off, though so much superior to l’Aimable. The Glenmore, taking care of her recapture and her valuable charge, could not render any assistance to her consort.

Captain Raper continued on the Leeward Island station until the suspension of hostilities, in 1801. During the latter part of the late war with France, he commanded the Mars, of 74 guns. His first commission as a Rear-Admiral, bears date Aug. 12, 1819.



 Rear-Admiral of the White; Commander-in-Chief at Halifax; a Companion of the must honorable Military Order of the Bath; and Knight Commander of the Neapolitan Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit.

officer served with great credit as a Lieutenant during the West India Campaign in 1794. He subsequently commanded the Woolwich, a 44-gun ship, armed en flute, on the Leeward Island station; and was posted into the Perdrix, of 22 guns and 153 men, Feb. 2, 1796.

On the 13th Jan. 1798, an unfortunate circumstance occurred at English Harbour, Antigua, in consequence of Lieutenant Charles Peterson, of the Perdrix, disobeying the orders of Lord Camelford, acting commander of the Favorite sloop, and at that time senior officer in the harbour, Captain Fahie being absent on leave. The alarm guns having been tired, Lord Camelford sent an order to Lieutenant Peterson to hold the