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  of two French store-ships by her and the Hussar, already noticed, took place at a time when Mr. Tobin commanded the Princess of Wales schooner, employed as a tender to those frigates. He subsequently became first Lieutenant of the Thetis, and continued as such till his removal into the Resolution 74, bearing the flag of the commander-in-chief, by whom he was promoted into the Dasher, a new sloop of war, about Aug. 1798.

After commanding this vessel for twelve months on the coast of America, Captain Tobin was ordered to convoy the homeward bound trade: and on his arrival in England he used every effort to have her sent to the Mediterranean, in order to be near Lord Nelson; but had the mortification not to succeed, she being placed under the orders of Sir Thomas Pasley, at Plymouth, and chiefly employed off the Isle of Bas, in the irksome, but rarely successful service, of endeavouring to prevent the enemy’s convoys passing along-shore. During the last two years of the war we find her attached to the Channel fleet, successively commanded by Earl St. Vincent, and the Hon. Admiral Cornwallis. She was paid off at Plymouth, Oct. 10, 1801.

