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 of the French part of St Domingo from the usurped government of the blacks. Previously to his departure for the West Indies, Mr. Glascock witnessed a mutiny in the Bantry Bay squadron, and the execution of the ringleaders at Spithead. On the renewal of hostilities, in 1803, Mr. Glascock joined the Colossus 74, Captain (now Sir George) Martin, whom he followed into the Barfleur 98, of which ship he was signal mate in Sir Robert Calder’s action with the combined fleets of France and Spain, July 22d, 1805. On that occasion, the master of the Barfleur and two men were killed, and her first lieutenant (Peter Fisher) and six men wounded. On the 22d of the following month, Mr. Glascock witnessed the brush between the van ships of the fleet under Admiral Cornwallis, and the rear of the French line in Bertheaume Bay, near Brest, of which we have made mention in, and.

Mr. Glascock passed his examination for lieutenant in Sept. 1808, and was promoted into the Dannemark 74, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) James Bissett, on the 8th Nov. following. That ship formed part of the squadron under Sir Richard J. Strachan, at the attack and reduction of Flushing, in Aug. 1809, and Lieutenant Glascock subsequently suffered much from the Walcheren fever, of which he had several relapses. His next appointment was, about July 1812, to the Clarence 74, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Henry Vansittart, employed in the blockade of Rochefort, on which station he participated in one or two boating affairs with the enemy.

After the close of the European war, in 1814, he joined the Tiber 38, Captain J. R. Dacres. We subsequently find him serving as first lieutenant of the Madagascar and Meander frigates (both commanded by Captain Sir James Alexander Gordon), and displaying much coolness and presence of mind when the latter ship struck on the Garbard Sand, near Orfordness, in a gale of wind, Dec. 19th, 1816. On