The vessel that escaped was immediately despatched to Halifax with intelligence of what had happened; and at the end of 12 days Captain Huskisson and his companions in misfortune were released from their unpleasant situation by the arrival of the Shannon frigate, and a schooner sent to their relief. The sentence of the court-martial afterwards held at Halifax, to enquire into the circumstances attending the loss of the Barbadoes, was as follows:–
“No blame is imputable to Captain Huskisson, his officers, and ship’s company; but the loss of the ship was occasioned by the extraordinary and uncertain set of the currents; and it appears to the Court that every exertion was used for the preservation of the stores and provisions, but the state of the weather precluded every possibility of doing it: the Court doth therefore most fully acquit Captain Huskisson, his officers, and ship’s company and they are hereby most fully acquitted accordingly.”
From Halifax, Captain Huskisson returned to England in the Africa 64, a guest at Vice-Admiral Sawyer’s table. His next appointment was, June 7, 1815 to the Euryalus 42, in which frigate he proceeded to cruise off Havre, where he remained as senior officer of the squadron employed in watching that port and the mouth of the Seine, to prevent the escape of Napoleon Buonaparte, until it was known that that personage had surrendered himself to the Bellerophon 74.
On the 25th July, 1818, Captain Huskisson was again appointed to the Euryalus, then fitting at Chatham for the Leeward Islands station. On the 18th Nov. 1819, he hoisted a broad pendant at Barbardoes, the command of the squadron in the Caribbean seas having devolved upon him in consequence of the death of Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell, which had taken place at Tortola seven days before.
On the 16th May, 1820, Rear-Admiral Fahie arrived from England, when Captain Huskisson received directions to proceed to Jamaica, and place himself under the command of his friend Sir Home Popham. On the 16th June, only eight days after his arrival at Port Royal, he again hoisted a broad pendant, and assumed the command of the squadron on that station, the health of Sir Home being in so precarious a state as to oblige him to return to England, where he died on the 11th Sept. following. It perhaps has never before happened
