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 amounted, however, to no more than 32 officers and men killed and wounded.

After the retreat from the sea of Marmora, Sir Thomas Louis was detached to Alexandria, with two other ships under his orders, but did not arrive there until after that place had capitulated to the military and naval forces under Major-General M‘Kenzie Fraser and Captain Benjamin Hallowell. It is worthy of remark, that the Canopus was the first English line-of-battle ship that ever entered the harbour of Alexandria. Shortly after she had done so, several transports’ launches were placed under the command of Lieutenant Pickard, and employed in carrying provisions up the river Nile, for the use of the troops employed against Rosetta. The attack upon that place having failed, with considerable loss on the side of the British, the same boats brought down many of the wounded soldiers.

Upon the occasion of a larger force being subsequently collected to renew the attack, Lieutenant Pickard volunteered his services, and was appointed to command fifty seamen, attached to the naval brigade under Captain Hallowell. This expedition also failed, after being three weeks under the walls of Rosetta; and six men belonging to the Canopus were taken prisoners during the retreat. Soon afterwards, Sir Thomas Louis died on board his flag-ship, when Captain Hallowell appointed Lieutenant Pickard to the command of the gun-boats upon the lakes, where he served till the Canopus was ordered to Malta, where the remains of the deceased rear-admiral were interred. In Sept. 1807, he followed Captain Shortland into the Queen 98; which ship returned home from the Mediterranean station, and was paid off at Chatham, towards the end of 1808.

Mr. Pickard’s subsequent appointments were to the Onyx brig, of 10 guns, in which vessel he remained but a very few days; – to the Naiad 38, successively commanded by Captains Thomas Dundas, Henry Hill, and the late Sir Philip Carteret Silvester; of which ship he was second lieutenant when, in company with three brigs and a cutter, she engaged the Boulogne flotilla, on two successive days, and