privateer which molested the trade of the Adriatic so much, also two of her prizes.
“I have to lament the loss of two seamen, killed by grape; one man drowned, by thee sinking of the yawl; and one slightly wounded. I have also to regret that the ship’s main-mast is very badly wounded, as well as a quantity of rigging cut.
“Upon the walls of the town, and in its towers, were three 18-pounders and eight small guns. The day the island surrendered, we captured several vessels in the channel, bound to Ragusa and Cattaro, principally with grain, for which those places were in great distress. We have also had the satisfaction of returning a quantity of church plate, bells, &c. which had been seized by the French, and were about to be carried away from Curzola and Augusta. I have the honor to be, &c.
“To Rear-Admiral Fremantle.”
The active manner in which the Apollo was employed during the remainder of the French war, has been stated in Vol. III. Part I. p. 293, et seq. We have only to add, that Mr. Bowen continued as her first lieutenant until advanced to his present rank, June 15th, 1814.
HENRY TAYLOR, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Mar. 1806; and commanded the Olympia cutter, on the Cape of Good Mope station, during the operations against the island of Bourbon, in 1810. On his return from thence to England (having then on board the officers charged with the naval and military despatches, announcing the reduction of that colony; and also Captain Matthew Flinders, the celebrated navigator, who had recently been liberated from his confinement at Mauritius,) he captured the French brig Atalante, pierced for eighteen guns, two only mounted, with a valuable cargo, from Port Louis, bound to Bourdeaux.
In May, 1811, the Olympia was taken by the enemy, off Dieppe; and Lieutenant Taylor appears to have remained in captivity from that period until towards the close of the war: he was granted a pension for wounds, in Dec. 1813; and promoted to the rank of commander, June 15th, 1814.
