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 , he assisted in boarding and securing a Danish block-ship, the Provesteen 56, which had struck her colours, but kept up a fire from the lower-deck for some time after her officers had surrendered.

On this occasion, a Dane snapped his pistol in Lieutenant Clement’s face, but it fortunately missed fire, and was immediately wrested from him by a British seaman named Ford, who soon settled his business, first knocking him down with the butt end, and then despatching him. Captain Clement’s last appointment was, in Sept. 1828, to the Shannon 46, fitting out at Chatham for the West India station, from whence he returned to Spithead on the 22d Nov. 18131. During his absence, in Feb. 1830, he was elected a burgess of Southampton. 

 the sanguinary affair with Fort Bowyer, this officer had the narrowest possible escape, a grape-shot having cut open the collar of his coat, without inflicting any material injury. The military officers on shore, who were waiting the effect of his fire to storm, and who were passive spectators of the scene, describe the manner in which the Hermes was laid alongside of the fort as being beautiful, and truly Nelsonian. 

 have already stated that this officer, when lieutenant of the Maida 74, commanded a party of seamen landed from that ship, to co-operate with the army under Lord Cathcart, at the siege of Copenhagen, in 1807. Whilst landing long 24-pounders, to form a breaching battery, the triangles supplied by the army to get the guns on shore were destroyed.