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 her joining Lord Collingwood off Cadiz, she was ordered to cruise between Capes St. Vincent and St. Mary; and afterwards sent to watch the port of Carthagena; on which latter service she continued about four months, and by means of her boats captured several small vessels. We subsequently find her cruising in the Gulf of Lyons. At the latter end of 1807, in company with the Niger frigate, she escorted several thousand troops, commanded by the late lamented Sir John Moore, from Gibraltar to England.

After docking and refitting his ship at Plymouth, Captain Dundas proceeded to North Yarmouth, from whence he conveyed the Duke d’Angouleme to Gottenburg. On the 11th June, 1808, the boats of the Euryalus, assisted by those of the Cruiser sloop of war, burnt two Danish transports, and captured a gun-vessel, mounting two long 18-pounders, with a complement of 64 men, moored within half pistol-shot of a 3-gun battery, near the entrance of the Naskon, in the Great Belt. Although the enemy’s troops lined the beach, the British had only 1 man wounded. The Danes sustained a loss of 7 men killed, 12 wounded, and several drowned, exclusive of casualties on shore. This gallant exploit was performed under the directions of Lieutenant Michael Head, of the Euryalus.

In the course of the same year, Captain Dundas conveyed his former illustrious guest from Carlscrona to Lebe, a small bay near the Gulf of Dantzic; and there embarked the late consort of Louis XVIII. the Duke de Berri, and other members of the French royal family, the whole of whom he landed at Carlscrona, received on board again at Gottenburg, and finally brought to Harwich.

The Euryalus formed part of the fleet under Sir Richard J. Strachan, during the Walcheren expedition; and on her return from that service, was placed under the orders of Sir Richard King, off Cherbourgh, where she captured l’Etoile, French lugger privateer, of 14 guns and 48 men.

In the spring of 1810, Captain Dundas escorted a large fleet of merchantmen from Spithead to Portugal and the Mediterranean. During the remainder of that year he was attached to the in-shore squadron off Toulon ; and early in 1811 