ford. In this vessel, Captain Harvey was employed in the North Sea until January 1783, on the 20th of which month he was advanced to post rank by the express command of his late Majesty, but does not appear to have served again afloat until the Spanish armament, in 1790, when he obtained the command of the Hussar, of 28 guns.
At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, our officer was appointed to the Santa Margaritta a fine frigate, in which he served at the reduction of Martinique and Guadaloupe by the naval and military forces under the orders of Admiral Sir John Jervis, and General Sir Charles Grey[1].
In the autumn of 1794, Captain Harvey assisted at the destruction of la Felicité, French frigate, and two corvettes, near the Penmarks[2]. Early in 1796, he removed into the Valiant, of 74 guns, and on the llth August in the same year, sailed for the West Indies in company with Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, and the trade bound to that quarter. After remaining some time at the Leeward Islands, our officer proceeded to the Jamaica station, and invalided from St. Domingo in 1797.
On the first establishment of the Sea Fencibles, in the spring of 1798, Captain Harvey was entrusted with the command of the Essex district, on which service he continued about fifteen or sixteen months, and then received an appointment to the Triumph, of 74 guns. He served with the Channel fleet during the remainder of the war.
At the general election in 1802, Captain Harvey succeeded Mr. Bramston as M.P. for Essex, and continued to represent that county until 1812, when he retired to avoid the expence of a contest. On the renewal of hostilities in 1803, he assumed the command of the Temeraire, a second rate, in which ship he greatly distinguished himself on the ever memorable 21st Oct. 1805[3]. The Temeraire was that day the next vessel astern of the Victory, bearing Lord Nelson’s flag, and had no less than 47 men killed and 76 wounded; 43 of her crew likewise perished in the prizes, after the battle[4].
- ↑ See p. 19.
- ↑ See p. 213.
- ↑ For an account of the battle of Trafalgar, see p. 202, et seq.
- ↑ Vice-Admiral Collingwood, in his official account of the action, reported
