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 of half an hour, the French national ship Libre, of 40 guns and 280 men: twenty of whom were killed and wounded. On this occasion the Loire, although the first in action, had not a man hurt; her consort one mortally, two badly, and five slightly wounded.

For other services, in which Mr. Herbert participated while belonging to the Loire, we must refer our readers to the memoir of his enterprising and indefatigable captain, whom he appears to have successively followed into the Volontaire and Emerald frigates. In Mar. 1807, he was removed into the Hibernia 110, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent; and about three months afterwards to the Confiance, in which ship he served until Oct. 19th, 1807; when he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant for his gallant conduct at the capture of a privateer on the coast of Spain, which service was thus officially reported by his commander, in a letter addressed to Admiral Lord Gardner, Aug. 18th preceding:–

Lieutenant Herbert’s first appointment was to the Cossack 24, Captain George Digby. On the 22d June, 1808, he was engaged as a volunteer in a very hazardous and important service at St. Andero, on the north coast of Spain, as will