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 it in our power so immediately to give him a promotion, which we have reason to believe will be particularly acceptable.

The subject of this memoir commissioned the AEtna bomb in Dec. 1803, and soon after joined the fleet under Lord Nelson on the Mediterranean station, where he was very actively employed covering Sardinia, and on various other services, till the glorious battle of Trafalgar; from which period he served as Flag-Captain to Lord Collingwood, in the Queen, Ocean, and Ville de Paris, 3-deckers, until the death of that gallant and worthy nobleman, which took place off Minorca, on the 7th Mar. 1810. His post commission bears date Oct. 22, 1805.

It should here be remarked, that Lord Collingwood, satisfied with the ability of his protege, wholly dispensed with the assistance of a Captain of the Fleet, and consequently much of the duty of that office was performed by Captain Thomas, who continued in the command of the Ville de Paris, as a private ship, till the autumn of 1810, when he gave her up in consequence of private concerns requiring his attendance in England.

Captain Thomas’s next appointment was, about Feb. 1811, to the Undaunted, a fine 38-gun frigate, employed in co-operation with the Spanish patriots on the coast of Catalonia, where he displayed great zeal and activity on a variety of occasions, for which the thanks of the Admiralty were conveyed to him through his senior officer, the present Sir Edward Codrington. He was subsequently entrusted with the 