Dickson anchored with the Victorieuse and Zephyr, and opened a smart fire on both forts, one of which mounted four, the other two guns. In ten minutes the seventy troops and seamen carried the lower fort; and immediately the Spanish flag at the other was hauled down and replaced by a French one. At the end of five minutes more, the upper fort also surrendered. The number of men that garrisoned the two was estimated at 300; but they, as well as the crew of the privateer, effected their escape. The Couleuvre and the battery guns were carried off, and both forts destroyed. The casualties on the part of the British were two men killed and two wounded.”
In Aug. 1802, we find Lieutenant Case serving under Captain Christopher Basset Jones, of the Beaver sloop, and exhibiting the following charges against him: – 1st, for running the said vessel on shore through obstinacy; – 2d, for tyranny and oppression; – 3d, for having used language to his accuser, scandalous and unbecoming the character of an officer. The first charge was declared to be frivolous and vexatious; the second was partly, and the third fully, proved. Captain Jones was therefore adjudged to be dismissed H.M. service.
On the 25th of Sept. 1806, Lieutenant Case, then first of the Centaur 74, Captain Sir Samuel Hood, assisted at the capture of four large French frigates, full of troops, arms, ammunition, provisions, and stores, from Rochefort, bound to the West Indies. On this occasion. Sir Samuel Hood received a severe wound in his right arm, and was obliged to quit the deck, leaving the ship in charge of Lieutenant Case, whose “judicious conduct,” during the whole affair, he highly approved and duly represented[1]. On the 27th of Aug. 1808, the same officer, then a rear-admiral, again recommended him, in an official letter addressed to Sir James Saumarez, reporting the destruction of the Sewolod, a Russian 74[2].
Lieutenant Case’s next appointment was in 1811, to be first of the Minder 74, fitting out for the flag of Sir Samuel Hood, as commander-in-chief on the East India station. He obtained his present rank, and the command of the Samarang sloop, in August 1812. This officer married, Sept. 15th, 1829, Miss Hallett, of Chickcock, Devon.
