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made a lieutenant in Oct. 1800. We first find him serving under Captain John Edgcumbe, of the Heron sloop; and next in the Africaine frigate, Captain Robert Corbett. In June, 1810, the Africaine sailed from Plymouth with despatches for the Governor-General of India, containing orders for the immediate equipment of an expedition against the Isles of France and Bourbon. On the 9th Sept., she touched at the island of Rodriguez, to replenish her water; but, learning what had befallen the squadron under Captain Samuel Pym, at Port Sud-Est, in the Isle of France, and that Isle Bourbon was already in possession of the British, Captain Corbett determined upon changing his route, and hastened to join Commodore Rowley, the officer then charged with the blockade of Port Louis. On the 11th of the same month, the Africaine’s barge and jolly-boat sustained a loss of two men killed, and a marine officer, a master’s-mate, a midshipman, and thirteen men wounded, in an unsuccessful attempt to bring off a French transport schooner which had run on shore near Grande-Baie. Captain Corbett’s subsequent proceedings are thus detailed by Mr. James:

