After the battle of Waterloo, Captain Maude was despatched to India, with the intelligence of Napoleon’s overthrow; and he appears to have reached Madras on the same day that the overland express arrived there. In July, 1816, he discovered several islands on the southern side of the Persian Gulph, previously unknown to European navigators. In June, 1817, the Favorite, then at Deptford, and about to be paid off, he commanded a division of boats, under the orders of Captain Andrew King, at the opening of Waterloo Bridge, by his late Majesty George IV.
Captain Maude’s next appointment was. May 15th, 1824, to the Dartmouth 42, fitting out for the Jamaica station; where his boats, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Warde, captured two piratical vessels ; one mounting a long 12-pounder on a pivot, and manned with about fifty well armed desperadoes, some of whom were killed, and twelve taken prisoners to Havannah.
Whilst thus employed in the protection of trade on the coast of Cuba, Captain Maude was recalled home, to take the command of the Glasgow 50, his appointment to which ship bears date Feb. 9th, 1825. In Oct. following, he took out Viscount Strangford, H.M. ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburgh; and on his return from Cronstadt, towards the end of November, was sent to join the squadron in the Tagus, under the orders of Lord Amelius Beauclerk. He subsequently proceeded to the Mediterranean, and there received the insignia of a C.B. and the Orders of St. Louis and St. Anne, for his conduct at the battle of Navarin, Oct. 20th, 1827. The following are extracts of his commander-in-Chief’s official letter to the Lord High Admiral, reporting the issue of that action:
