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 4-oared gig. At 9, the boats got sight of the enemy, under sail with a light breeze, and at 9-15 simultaneously attacked her on the starboard bow and larboard quarter: a desperate conflict ensued, which ended in the capture of the Dane, a cutter mounting one howitzer, and having on board, at the commencement of the action, twenty-five well armed men, of whom five were killed, and her commander, a lieutenant in the Danish navy, very badly wounded. On the part of the assailants, one man belonging to each British vessel was slain: Lieutenant Morgan and two of his gallant crew were severely wounded.

Want of space prevents us from making particular mention of every service performed by the Barbara, whilst on the Baltic station, a period of nine months, during which she captured and destroyed no less than 2,544 tons of the enemy’s shipping, navigated by 136 seamen; and, in conjunction with the Hawke privateer, of Hastings, captured a Danish privateer, and retook a ship from under the batteries on Lessee island and the fire of ten gun-boats. It is almost superfluous to add, that the activity and gallant conduct of her commander were highly approved by Rear-Admiral Hope and his successor, the present Sir Graham Moore.

On his return from the Baltic, Lieutenant Morgan was ordered to Plymouth, on which station he continued until July 1814, when the deranged state of his affairs, occasioned by the failure of his prize-brokers at Gottenburg, obliged him most reluctantly to resign the command of the Barbara, in order, if possible, to obtain some kind of settlement. During the usurpation of Napoleon Buonaparte, in 1815, he commanded the Aggressor gun-brig, to which vessel he was appointed through the kind intervention of Sir George Hope; and subsequently, for a period of nearly two years and a half, the Pictou schooner, of 16 guns, on the Irish station. His promotion to the rank of commander took place July 19th, 1821. We here subjoin the copy of a letter addressed to him by Sir Graham Moore, dated at Cobham, Surrey, Mar. 14th, 1827:–

“Sir,– I yesterday received your letter dated the 5th inst., in which you request of me to give you a certificate of my opinion of your conduct