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  64, Captain James Pattison Stewart, who, when reporting the performance of a very dashing exploit on the coast of Norway, in the night of July 6th, 1812, described him as “a most gallant and excellent officer”. Eleven days after this affair, he was advanced to the rank of commander. 



made a lieutenant towards the close of 1800; promoted to his present rank, July 25th, 1812; and appointed to the Thisbe 28, employed as a receiving-ship in the river Thames, June 11th, 1814. 



the rank of lieutenant in 1797; and served as such under Captains Edward Stirling Dickson and John Richards, in la Victorieuse sloop, previous to the peace of Amiens.

“On the 3d of December, 1798, at 2 ,” says Mr. James, “the Victorieuse and 14-gun brig sloop Zephyr, having received on board, by order of Colonel Picton (commanding at Trinidad), a major and forty men of the York Rangers, landed them, along with a party of seamen, near the river Caribe, in the island of Margarita, in order to attack the forts in the rear, while the two brigs cannonaded them in front; but at daylight, the Spanish commandant sent to beg the British not to fire, as he would give them immediate possession. This he did; and the guns were brought off, and the troops re-embarked. The brigs then made sail for the port of Gurupano, in the same island, and at 4 arrived there. Observing a French privateer in the harbour. Captain Dickson sent in a flag of truce, to say that the British were determined to take her out, and warning the commandant of the fort not to fire at them. He replied, that he would protect the vessel, which was the Couleuvre, of six guns and eighty men, and that the British should give him up the guns they bad taken at Rio-Caribe.

“No time was now to be lost; and having landed the troops, also thirty seamen commanded by Lieutenants Case and M‘Rensey, Captain