he was appointed to the Magnificent 74, on the North Sea station; and we subsequently find him serving as first Lieutenant of the Galatea, a 32-gun frigate, forming part of a squadron employed in the Channel under the orders of Sir John Borlase Warren, who makes very honorable mention of his conduct in boarding and assisting at the destruction of l’Andromaque, of 44 guns and 300 men, near Arcasson, on the 23d Aug. 1796, the particulars of which event, and others not already noticed in our memoir of his commander, the present Admiral Sir Richard G. Keats, will appear in the supplement to this work.
Lieutenant Carter continued in the Galatea, and shared in a series of active services under the command of Captain Keats, and his successor, Captain Byng, now Viscount Torrington, until promoted to the rank of Commander, May 15, 1800; on which occasion he was appointed to the Adventure, a 44-gun ship, armed en flute, and attached to the armament then about to sail from Cork for the purpose of making a diversion on the enemies’ coasts, and of ultimately joining the grand expedition destined against the French army in Egypt. To his great disappointment, however, the Adventure, after conveying the 82d regiment to Belleisle, Corunna, Cadiz, Tetuan, and Minorca, was found to be in so leaky a state as to render it impossible for her to continue on that service; in consequence of which she was ordered to carry Sir James Pulteney and his staff, with the 52d regiment to Lisbon, from whence she returned home in the spring of 1801; and being surveyed, was soon after put out of commission.
Captain Carter was advanced to post rank April 29, 1802, and appointed to a command in the Sea Fencible service about July, 1803; from which time he appears to have been stationed in the Isle of Wight till the dissolution of that corps in March 1810. During his continuance there he made repeated applications for an appointment more congenial to his zealous disposition; and two days after the discharge of the above force we find him endeavouring to prevail upon the nobleman then at the head of the Admiralty to employ him actively afloat, by offering to serve without pay, depending on his own exertions against the enemy for remuneration;
