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 twelve valuable merchant vessels, by a small squadron under Rear-Admiral Duckworth, in April, 1800.

We next find Mr. Marshall in the Kent 74, bearing the flag of Sir Richard Bickerton. He appears to have been present at the landing of the British army under Sir Ralph Abercromby, in Aboukir bay, March 8th, 1801; and likewise in the actions of the 13th and 21st of the same month. He afterwards piloted a number of frigates, brigs, and smaller vessels into the western harbour of Alexandria; and for his services during that celebrated campaign was presented with the superior Turkish gold medal. On the removal of Sir Richard Bickerton’s flag into the Madras 54, he was appointed acting lieutenant of that ship, but did not succeed in getting confirmed until Aug. 30th, 1803, He subsequently served in the Gibraltar 80, Captain William Hancock Kelly; the Dreadnought 98, to which ship he was appointed at the particular request of Admiral Sir John Colpoys; and the Hind 28, Captain Francis William Fane; the latter ship employed in almost every European part of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles; and also on the coast of Egypt, during the occupation of Alexandria, by the military and naval forces under Major-General Fraser and Captain Hallowell. On one occasion, when returning from Majorca, to which island he had been sent in a small felucca, for the purpose of effecting an exchange of prisoners, he, with only four foreigners as a boat’s crew, pursued and captured a large Spanish xebec, full of refugees, proceeding from Tarragona to Palma. On another occasion, while cruising in the Archipelago, the Hind’s jolly-boat unarmed, under his command, boarded and made prize of a Turkish brig, of four guns, having on board the governor of Candia and his body guard, armed as usual with sabres, pistols, muskets, and dirks.

Lieutenant Marshall was the senior officer of his rank employed at the evacuation of Scylla, where he again displayed