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 slaves at Tunis. After cruising for some time off Toulon, he was appointed to the command of a squadron employed in the Adriatic, where he continued till the whole of the French, posts in Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria, and the Frioul, with all the islands in that quarter, were surrendered to the British and Austrian forces. During this busy period, Lieutenant Gosling was not idle.

Before he left the Milford, he assisted at the capture and destruction of several French vessels. On the day after his removal to the Havannah, he gallantly seconded Lieutenant (now Commander) William Hamley, in a successful attack on ten others, armed, laden with oil, and lying aground under the batteries of Vasto, from which the enemy were driven with the loss of six men killed and seven wounded. Three weeks afterwards, he assisted at the capture of a Neapolitan convoy, under a martello tower, on the N.W. coast of Manfredonia, consisting of two heavy gunboats, one armed pinnace, and four trabacolos, the latter mounting three guns each. He subsequently commanded a detachment of boats employed in exciting a spirit of revolt against the enemy, among the inhabitants of the different islands. After the capture of Sagna, we find him despatched, in an open boat, to the squadron off Fiume, and, on his way thither, encountering a violent bora, or N.E. gale. From thence he followed Rear-Admiral Fremantle to the Brioni Islands, and, having communicated the intelligence with which he was charged, returned to his ship some time previous to the reduction of Zara, a fortress mounting 110 guns, besides mortars and howitzers, and defended by 2000 veteran troops, under the command of Baron Roisé, an experienced French General. The detail of this most important service, by the accomplishment of which the allies obtained complete possession of Dalmatia, will be given in our memoir of Commander Hamley.

The conjunct operations in the Adriatic being at length successfully concluded, and the European war nearly at an end. Lieutenant Gosling exchanged into the Apollo frigate, and shortly afterwards returned to England. In Nov. 1814,