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 latter employed in active co-operation with the Spanish patriots on the coast of Catalonia. Among the prizes taken by him at different periods were the Marsouin and Venus, French privateers, each mounting 14 guns, and carrying in the whole 127 men.

On the 27th June 1812, the Curaçoa had 6 men killed and wounded in an affair on the coast of Genoa, already noticed at p. 293 of this volume. On the 20th May, 1813, three feluccas of considerable tonnage, deeply laden, were scuttled by the enemy, and sunk in the harbour of Campo del Porto, Elba, the marines and boats of the Curaçoa and l’Aigle having first paved the way by routing a considerable body of military, taking a battery of two 12-pounders, and a tower with a 6-pounder mounted on the martello principle, besides killing several of the enemy, and making a few prisoners. On the following morning, the boats captured three settees; and on the 28th two feluccas of the largest class were taken by them from the beach, at Mesea, near Port Especia: in the performance of this latter service, the British had 3 men killed and 5 wounded.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son. 

 officer completed his time as a Midshipman under the flag of the late Sir Henry Harvey, K.B. by whom he was made a Lieutenant and appointed to the Requin brig, at the Leeward Islands, in 1798. He subsequently commanded a small sloop employed as a tender to the Daphne of 20 guns, on the same station.

After taking several privateers and recapturing many merchant vessels, Mr. Mackenzie established his character as a brave officer, by boarding and carrying l’Eclair a French national schooner, moored under the batteries at Trois Rivieres, Guadaloupe, and fully prepared for action. The particulars of this exploit are thus detailed by Rear-Admiral Duckworth in a letter to the Admiralty, dated Feb. 9, 1801:

“Captain Matson, of the Daphne, informs me that on the 16th ultimo, observing some coasters near the shore, under convoy of a schooner, he detached Lieutenant Mackenzie, with the boats of the Cyane, under 