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 , in June, 1800, joined a transport employed in carrying dtores to the West Indies and Mediterranean, until paid off in May, 1802. He then entered into the revenue service, and continued till June, 1804; when we find him once more volunteering to serve afloat, under the flag of Sir Edward Pellew, with whom he soon afterwards sailed for India, in the Culloden 74.

While on that station, Mr. Fleming was successively removed into the Howe and Cornwallis frigates, the Harrier sloop, and Sir Edward Hughes 38; in which latter ship he returned home, under the command of Captain Edward Ratsey, about Oct. 1807. He afterwards re-visited the West Indies, in the York 74, Captain Robert Barton; and was appointed acting lieutenant of that ship by Sir Alexander Cochrane, Dec. 14th, 1808. During the subsequent operations against Martinique, he commanded a division of 100 seamen, landed to act in conjunction with the army under Lieutenant-General Beckwith. His first commission bears date Sept. 26th, 1809; previous to which he had witnessed the reduction of the island of Walcheren.

The York was next employed on the Mediterranean station, where Lieutenant Fleming appears to have served in that ship, and the Conqueror and Ajax 74’s, under Captains Barton, Edward Fellowes, and Sir Robert Laurie, until appointed by Sir Edward Pellew to the command of the Pylades (afterwards Carlotta) gun-brig, in Jan. 1812. While belonging to the Conqueror, he was sent with three boats under his orders to attempt cutting out an enemy’s armed vessel, lying at Arus, in the Gulph of Genoa ; but it being mid-day, and the military having collected in great force, he found himself under the necessity of relinquishing his object, with the loss of seventeen or eighteen men wounded – some mortally and all the rest severely. In the Carlotta, he captured several small vessels, including a French privateer, and partook of various services on the coasts of Tuscany and Genoa.

In April, 1813, Mr. Hugh Stewart Morris, midshipman of the Carlotta, was tried by a court-martial, for disobedience of