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 he exchanged into l’Unité, then again on the Mediterranean station, under the command of Captain Edwin H. Chamberlayne. His first commission bears date Jan. 3d, 1810.

On the 4th July 1811, the light boats of l’Unité, under Lieutenant Joseph William Crabb, captured in Port Hercule, on the coast of Rome, the St. François de Paule, a brig of eight guns, partly laden with ship-timber, and Lieutenant M‘Dougall, in the launch, successfully co-operated with his messmate in bringing her out, under showers of grape, from a battery on the beach. Towards the end of Nov. following, while in charge of a large detained Austrian ship, and on his way to Malta, Lieutenant M‘Dougall fell in with three French men-of-war, when, “with a judgment and zeal which did him infinite credit,” he immediately resolved upon putting back, to acquaint the senior officer in the Adriatic that he had discovered the enemy. The result was the capture of la Pomone frigate, mounting 44 guns, with a complement of 322 men, and la Persanne of 26 guns and 190 men, both ships partly laden with iron and brass ordnance for the squadron and garrison at Trieste. His conduct on this occasion was highly eulogized both by the senior officer, (Captain Murray Maxwell) and his own commander. On the 16th June 1812, he commanded the boats of a frigate squadron at the capture and destruction of three vessels and several field pieces in a small port near Cape Otranto.

On the 22d. Dec. 1813, Lieutenant M‘Dougall was appointed first of the Leander 50, Captain Sir George Ralph Collier, under whose command he was several times in action with the enemy on the coast of North America. He served as third of the Superb 74, Captain Charles Ekins, and received two wounds at the memorable battle of Algiers, on which occasion he was the senior officer capable of carrying on duty at the close of that sanguinary conflict. In the spring of 1818, when his friend, Sir George Collier, was appointed commodore on the coast of Africa, he applied for him to be his first lieutenant, in the Tartar frigate; but a flag-lieutenancy being at the same time offered him by the late Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell, then just nominated 