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 frigate, Captain the Hon. Anthony Maitland; Vengeur 74, Captain Thomas Alexander, guard-ship at Portsmouth; and Queen Charlotte 108, flag-ship of Admiral Sir George Camphell, commander-in-chief on that station. He has since commanded the Pearl 20, employed on the coast of Ireland. 



made a lieutenant on the 28th Mar. 1799; and afterwards principally employed in the command of small vessels. On the 24th May 1808, being then off the island of Bornholm, in the Swan hired cutter, mounting ten 12-pounder carronades, he addressed the following to Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez:–

In 1809, Lieutenant Lucas was removed from the Swan to the Censor gun-brig. On the 25th July 1810, his boats cut out from the harbour of Stralsund, a French privateer pierced for four guns, with a crew of forty men, three of whom only were on board. On the 11th Nov. 1811, he captured the French lugger Heureuse Etoile, of four guns and twelve men, on the Baltic station. In Sept. 1815, he was appointed to