defences[1]. On regaining his liberty, during the confusion which arose from conflicting opinions among the French sailors, he was immediately promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and appointed aide-de-camp to Captain George K. Elphinstone[2], governor of Fort la Malgue and its dependencies[3]. Whilst in the power of the rebel commodore, St. Julien, he suffered much ill treatment.
After the evacuation of Toulon, Lieutenant Ribouleau was appointed, through the intervention of Captain Elphinstone, to take charge of l’Arethuse frigate, manned with a Jacobin crew, under the Bourbon colours, in which ship he accompanied two other French men-of-war and a large convoy to England, escorted by the Robust 74. On his arrival he was removed into the Glory 98, Captain John Elphinstone, under whom he served at the glorious battle of June 1st, 1794[4].
Lieutenant Ribouleau’s next appointment was to the Barfleur 98, flag-ship of Sir George K. Elphinstone, attached to the Channel fleet. In the beginning of 1795, he followed that officer into the Monarch 74; and on the 2d April in the same year sailed with him for the Cape of Good Hope. During the operations against that colony[5], he served on shore with a party of seamen.
The Monarch subsequently proceeded to Madras, where Mr. Ribouleau, then first lieutenant, was promoted to the rank of commander, and sent home, in a merchant ship, with despatches announcing the surrender of Columbo and its dependencies, in the island of Ceylon[6]. In 1800, he commanded the Astraea troop-ship, employed in conveying part of the guards to Vigo, and afterwards attached to the Egyptian expedition.
An account of the landing of the British army in Aboukir Bay will be found in our memoir of Admiral Sir Alexander I. Cochrane[7]. The following are extracts of Sir W. Sidney
- ↑ See Naval Chronicle, Vol. II. 378, et seq.
- ↑ The late Viscount Keith.
- ↑ See Vol. I. Part I. p. 46.
- ↑ See id. p. 76.
- ↑ See id. p. 47, et seq.
- ↑ See id. note at p. 49, et seq.
- ↑ See id. note † at p. 259, et seq.
