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  110, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, which noble ship, however, was accidentally destroyed by fire, near the island of Capreja, Mar. 17th, 1800, only two or three days previous to his arrival at Leghorn.

After this providential escape, Mr. Maude followed his lordship into the Minotaur 74; and was present, in that ship, at the blockade and consequent surrender of Genoa, in the summer of 1800. On the 3d Aug. 1801, being then in the Phoenix 36, Captain (now Sir Lawrence W.) Halsted, he also witnessed the capture of a French 40-gun frigate, la Carrere, near Elba; and on the 2d Sept. following, the destruction of la Bravoure 46, and re-capture of a British 32, the Success, near Leghorn.

The Phoenix returned home from the Mediterranean in June 1802; and Mr. Maude appears to have subsequently served under Captain Lord William Stuart, in the Crescent frigate, on the North Sea and Channel stations. His first appointment as lieutenant was. Mar. 29th, 1805, to the Namur 74, commanded by Captain L. W. Halsted, in which ship he assisted at the capture of a French squadron, consisting of one 80 and three 74’s, the former bearing the flag of Mons. Le Manoir le Pelley, Nov. 4th, 1805.

Shortly after this event. Lieutenant Maude was appointed to the Lavinia 40, in which frigate he continued, under Captains Lord William Stuart and John Hancock, on the Channel, Oporto, and Mediterranean stations, until Jan. 1809. By the latter officer he was frequently employed in boats on the southern coast of France, where we find him making several successful attacks upon the enemy’s trade. His spirited conduct at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the Bay of Rosas, Oct, 31st, 1809, on which occasion he was slightly wounded, is thus spoken of by Lord Collingwood, to whose flag-ship he had been removed from the Lavinia:

“Many officers in the fleet were desirous of being volunteers in this service. I could not resist the earnest request of Lieutenants Lord 