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  In the course of the same year, Lieutenant Dundas was promoted to the rank of Commander; and at the commencement of 1801, we find him in the Calpe, a polacre-rigged vessel, employed with some gun-boats under his orders on the Gibraltar station, protecting convoys passing through the Gut.

The Calpe was with Sir James Saumarez in the actions of July 6 and 13, 1801; and her commander’s behaviour on those occasions is thus noticed by that most excellent officer, in his official letters:

“Caesar, Gibraltar, July 6.

“The Hon. Captain Dundas, of his Majesty’s polacre the Calpe, made his vessel as useful as possible, and kept up a spirited fire on one of the enemy’s batteries.”

“Caesar, off Cape Trafalgar, July 13.

“My thanks are also due to Captain Hollis, of the Thames, and to the lion. Captain Dundas, of the Calpe, whose assistance was particularly useful to Captain Keats in securing the enemy’s ship, and enabling the Superb to stand after the squadron, in case of our having been enabled to renew the action.”

The prize alluded to in the last extract was the San Antonio of 74 guns, in which ship Captain Dundas soon after returned to England. His post commission bears date Aug. 3, 1801. He subsequently commanded the Quebec and Euryalus frigates.

Early in 1806, the Euryalus sailed from England in company with the Ocean of 98 guns, and several other ships of war, having under their protection a large fleet of merchantmen bound to Oporto, Lisbon, the Mediterranean, &c. On