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  Balgonic, the Hon. James Ashley Maude, and the Hon. William Waldegrave, of the Ville de Paris, to have the command of boats, in which they displayed that spirit which is inherent in them .”

In Nov. 1809, Lieutenant Maude received an order to act as commander of the Wizard sloop, in which vessel he was first employed, under Captain the Hon. C. Elphinstone Fleeming, of the Bulwark 74, in destroying all the batteries between Tarifa and Gibraltar, with the concurrence of the Spanish authorities; and subsequently, in convoying some transports laden with corn, from Sardinia to Cadiz. Whilst performing the latter service, he suffered severely from the effects of fever, and was consequently obliged to invalid. His commission as commander bears date Oct. 22d, 1810.

We now lose sight of Captain Maude until Feb. 15th, 1812, when he was appointed to the Nemesis 28, armed en flûte. In this ship, after escorting troops to Lisbon and Catalonia, he convoyed a fleet of transports to North America, where he was very actively employed, under the immediate orders of Rear-Admiral (now Sir George) Cockburn ; particularly at the capture of Portsmouth and Ocracoke Island, in North Carolina, July 12th, 1813. In the rear-admiral’s official letter, on this occasion, it is stated, that Captain Maude, “with much laudable zeal,” attended to render him his personal assistance wherever circumstances might require it.

When on his return from the Halifax station. Captain Maude fell in with the Action sloop, and assisted in capturing a French schooner privateer, of 14 guns and 95 men. He paid off the Nemesis, at Plymouth, in Mar. 1814; obtained post rank on the 11th of the same month; and was next appointed, Oct. 18th following, to the Favorite 26. In the beginning of 1815, he took out the treaty of peace, concluded at Ghent, between Great Britain and America; and on the 13th March, only nineteen days after his departure from Washington, he arrived at the Foreign Office with the ratification of the same, by the President and Senate of the United States.

