promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on the 16th Feb. 1799: he subsequently accompanied Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Curtis to the Cape of Good Hope, in the Lancaster of 64 guns, from which ship he was made a Commander into the Penguin sloop of war, by commission dated in Feb. 1801. His promotion to the rank of Post-Captain took place April 28, 1802, on which occasion he was appointed to the Braave of 40 guns.
At the renewal of the war, in 1803, we find Captain Bouverie commanding the Mercury, a 28-gun frigate, fitted as a floating battery for the defence of Guernsey. In Dec. 1804 he sailed from Portsmouth as convoy to the outward-bound Mediterranean trade: and on the 4th Feb. following, he captured El Fuerte de Gibraltar, a Spanish vessel of 4 guns and 59 men, from Cadiz bound to Algeziras. His next appointment was about Aug. 1805, to l’Aimable 32, in which ship he fell in with and was chased by a French squadron under M. Richery, when proceeding to join Lord Nelson’s fleet off Cadiz. Early in 1806 he was removed to the Medusa frigate, then under orders for the East Indies, but afterwards sent to the Rio de la Plata, where he joined the squadron under Sir Home Popham, Oct. 7, 1806, and continued to serve till the final evacuation of Spanish America, Sept. 9, 1807. The Medusa returned to Spithead with Lieutenant-General Whitelocke and his staff on the 7th Nov. in the same year[1].
On the 4th April 1808, Captain Bouverie captured l’Actif French privateer of 14 guns, near Dunnose. He was subsequently ordered to the coast of Labrador, where he remained three months under the orders of Captain Thomas Manby of the Thalia frigate[2]. On his return from that inhospitable station, we find him employed as a cruiser in the British Channel, and Bay of Biscay, where he captured the French privateers l’Aventure, of 14 guns and 82 men, l’Hirondelle, of
- ↑ The Medusa assisted at the capture of the town of Maldonado, and the island of Gorrite, in Oct. 1806. The operations of the British from that period till the final evacuation of Spanish America, have already been detailed in our memoirs of Sir Josias Rowley, and other officers. See vol. I, note at p. 624, et seq.
- ↑ See vol. II. part I. p. 210, et seq.
