tion, under Sir Richard G. Keats, who entrusted him with the command of a squadron sent to convey Lieutenant-General Graham (now Lord Lynedoch) and his troops to Tariffa, for the purpose of co-operating with the Spanish General La Penas, in an attack upon the rear of the French besieging army. It being found impracticable to effect a landing any where between Cape Trafalgar and Tariffa, Captain Brace proceeded to Algeziras, where the troops were disembarked under his personal superintendence. From thence the Lieutenant-General immediately marched for Tariffa, to which place the artillery, provisions, stores, &c. of his little army were conveyed in boats, notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather, by the indefatigable exertions of the navy. The famous battle of Barrossa followed; and the assistance afforded by Captain Brace to the combined armies, was most handsomely mentioned in the naval and military despatches respecting that truly glorious event[1].
Towards the latter end of 1811, Captain Brace removed into the Berwick of 74 guns, which ship he commanded on the Mediterranean station during the remainder of the war.
A gallant exploit was performed May 16, 1813, by a detachment from the Berwick and Euryalus, under the direction of Mr. Henry Johnston Sweedland, first Lieutenant of the former ship. Upwards of twenty vessels collected in Cavalarie bay, to the eastward of Toulon, under the protection of several land batteries, and la Fortune, a French national xebec mounting ten long 9-pounders and 4 swivels, with a complement of 95 men, were either brought out or destroyed, and the batteries taken in a period of time astonishingly short, the assailants sustaining no greater loss than 1 marine killed, and an ordinary seaman missing. The attack was ably planned; and Lieutenant Sweedland carried it into execution with that calm intrepidity which, while it leaves an enemy nothing to hope from protracted resistance, foresees and provides all that is requisite to ensure success.
- ↑ The British and Spanish armies formed a junction at Tariffa, Feb. 28, 1811, and five days afterwards obtained a most brilliant victory over two divisions of Marshal Victor’s army. The loss of the French, who left behind them two generals, an eagle, and six pieces of cannon, was computed at 3,000 in killed, wounded, and prisoners: on the side of the allies, the loss was stated at 1,243 in slain and wounded.
