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 Herald, under Captains Hony and Jackson, he commanded the boats of that sloop in thirty close actions with the enemy; captured and destroyed more than forty vessels of different descriptions, including those already mentioned; and had between twenty and thirty of his subordinates killed and wounded. In 1810, he was, for a short time, first lieutenant of the Princess Charlotte frigate. Captain George Tobin, and present at the capture of two French privateers. In the beginning of 1811, he was ordered to India, on promotion; and proceeded thither in the Actaeon brig, Captain Bertie Cornelius Cator. On his arrival at Ceylon, he was appointed first of the Bucephalus frigate. Captain Drury, then at Java, and sent to join her in the Cornelia 32, Captain W. F. Owen, by whose directions he did duty as senior lieutenant during the whole of the passage; and from whom he subsequently received an order to act as commander of the Procris brig, in which vessel he accompanied the late Captain James Bowen, of the Phoenix frigate, on an expedition against Sambas, a piratical state on the western coast of Borneo.

Finding, on his arrival off the principal river, that frigates could not cross the bar. Captain Bowen then hoisted a broad pendant on board the Procris, and proceeded in her, accompanied by two other small vessels and the boats of the squadron, to the attack and capture of Palanibang, situated sixty miles from the sea. On his way thither, batteries containing altogether 101 pieces of cannon, were taken without resistance; as was likewise the Sultan’s palace, although 140 guns were mounted for its defence.

After commanding the Procris for five months, Lieutenant Forman was appointed first of the Malacca frigate. Captain Donald Hugh Mackay; and, finally, promoted to the rank of commander, Dec. 1st, 1813. Since that period he has never been employed, though, as appears by the following documents, he has repeatedly tendered his services.

“Admiralty, Dec. 13th, 1814.

“Sir,– Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 12th instant, with its enclosure, requesting that you may be allowed to serve under Commodore Owen, as a volunteer, I have their