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 two of whom he was attacked and nearly overpowered, when Mr. Maitland, and a seaman of the name of Daniel Lyons, flew to his relief, and buried their pikes in the bodies of his antagonists, at a moment when one of them, a French officer, was about to stab him as they lay struggling together on the ground. We have been told by a gentleman of indisputable veracity, that “no less than seven or eight of the enemy’s garrison were slain that day by the hands of Mr. Maitland, whose extraordinary bravery and exertions” he himself had an opportunity of witnessing.

During the subsequent operations carried on in Guadaloupe, with a view of recovering that island from the French republicans, Mr. Maitland, then an acting Lieutenant of the Boyne, served on shore with the seamen, under the orders of Captain Robertson, and was engaged in repeated skirmishes with the enemy previous to the unsuccessful attack made upon Point a Pitre, when he succeeded to the command of the naval brigade, in consequence of all the officers senior to himself being either killed, wounded, or knocked up through excessive fatigue.

