Blue; and he retained the command in that quarter until about the commencement of the following year. Previous to his departure for England he received an address from the merchants, ship-owners, and underwriters of Bombay, expressive of their acknowledgments for the protection he had afforded to the trade of that port.
We next find our officer, with his flag on board the Christian VII., during the summer of 1810, employed in the blockade of Flushing. He was afterwards appointed to succeed Sir Charles Cotton, as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, and proceeded to that station in the Caledonia of 120 guns, which ship bore his flag during the remainder of the war[1].
On the 14th May, 1814, Sir Edward Pellew, as a reward for his eminent and long services, was raised to the dignity of the peerage by the title of Baron Exmouth, of Canonteign, in the county of Devon; and on the 4th of the following month he became an Admiral of the Blue. He was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815.
The resumption of the sovereign authority in France by the exile of Elba, having again disturbed the repose of Europe, a squadron was immediately sent to the Mediterranean, under the orders of Lord Exmouth, whose flag was in the Boyne, of 98 guns. Having had the pleasure of contributing, in conjunction with an Austrian army, to the restoration of the legitimate King of Naples, his Lordship proceeded to Marseilles, where he co-operated with Major-General Sir Hudson Lowe, and the Marquis de Riviere, Lieutenant to Louis XVIII. for Provence and the neighbouring departments, in reducing the rebellious Toulonese, headed by Marshal Brune, to submission.
After the second abdication and final overthrow of Buonaparte, the English squadron was employed in no service of importance until the month of March, 1816, when Lord Exmouth sailed for Algiers, where, after some hesita-
- ↑ The transactions of the various detachments from Sir Edward’s fleet are fully detailed in the memoirs of Sir Josias Rowley, Sir Benjamin Hallowell, Sir Edward Codrington, Sir William Hoste, and numerous other officers, who commanded squadrons and single ships employed on the coasts of the different kingdoms washed by the Mediterranean Sea.
