burnt by the fire-vessels. And the Cambrian, Glasgow, and Talbot, following the fine example of Capitaine Hugon, of the Armide, who was opposed to the leading frigate of that line, effectually destroyed their opponents, and also silenced the batteries.”
Captain Maude continued on the Mediterranean station until Aug. 1828; and paid off the Glasgow, at Chatham, on the 8th of the following month.
This officer married, Oct. 18th, 1817, Albinia, second daughter of his Grace the Hon. Charles Brodrick, D.D., the Archbishop of Cashel.
THOMAS SMITH, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1825.]
Addendum.
We omitted to state in Vol. III. Part I., that this officer, while serving as midshipman under Captain (now Sir Thomas) Baker, was in the action between the Nemesis 28, and the Danish frigate Freya, near Ostend, July 25th, 1800[1].
After the capture, by Sir R. J. Strachan, of the four French line-of-battle ships which had escaped from Nelson’s victorious fleet off Trafalgar, he was sent to assist the present Captain Alexander Cunningham, then first lieutenant of the Hero 74, in conducting into port the Duguay-Trouin 74[2]. He was subsequently turned over from the Phoenix to la Didon, which frigate, as we have before stated, he had assisted in capturing; but as Captain Baker’s expected appointment to the latter ship did not immediately take place, he was in a short time after this transfer placed under Captain the Hon. Henry Blackwood, in the Ajax 80; and he appears to have been mate of the watch when that ship took fire, near the Island of Tenedos, in the night of Feb. 14th, 1807. On that terrific occasion, he displayed great activity in endeavouring to subdue the flames; and when all hopes of arresting their progress were at an end, he, not being able to swim, retreated to the bowsprit, on which he remained till it took fire, obliging him, at all risks,
