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 several smaller vessels. He also bore a part in an action with seventeen gun boats, by which she was attacked when entering Gibraltar bay with a fleet of merchantmen under her protection. For those and other services he was advanced to the rank of Commander on the 1st Jan. 1801; and posted April 29, in the following year.

His next appointment was to the Sea Fencible service at Cromer, where he met with a serious accident whilst exercising that corps at their great guns in June 1804, a grape-shot, weighing eight ounces, having entered his right foot, where it remained two years and a half before it could be extracted.

Captain Tremlett was appointed to the Alcmene, a 32 gun frigate, about April 1808; and in June following he entered into communication with the Spanish authorities at Corunna, assisted in their councils for three days, and then embarked the deputies sent from Galicia to solicit the assistance of Great Britain in the war about to commence between France and Spain. On his return to Corunna with those gentlemen, Sir Charles Stuart, and a quantity of specie, he received the rank of General in the patriotic army, which was the first instance of such a mark of distinction being conferred upon an Englishman.

On the 22d Dec. in the same year, Captain Tremlett gave chase to two French frigates of the largest class, which he compelled to take shelter under the citadel of St. Martin’s, on Isle Rhé, after a run of 130 miles. The following day he resolved to attack one of them at her anchorage, arid endeavour to carry her by boarding; but was prevented from executing his bold design by the Alcmene running aground through the ignorance of her pilot. He however blockaded them so closely as to prevent their escape, which was of itself a service of no little importance, they being full of troops, bound to the relief of Guadaloupe.

Captain Tremlett’s exertions were unfortunately terminated by the loss of his ship on a rock near the Loire in 1809, previous to which he had captured and destroyed upwards of