mantle, and receiving a wound at the attack made by Nelson upon Santa Cruz, in July 1797[1].
On the 17th Jan. 1798, the Seahorse, then commanded by Captain (afterwards Sir Edward James) Foote, on the Irish station, captured la Belliqueuse, French privateer, of 18 guns and 120 men. She subsequently proceeded to the Mediterranean, where Lieutenant Dickson assisted at the capture of la Sensible frigate, after a short action, near the island of Pantellaria, June 27th, 1798[2].
Lieutenant Dickson’s next appointment was to the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Earl St. Vincent, in which ship he continued until advanced to the rank of commander, Jan. 1st, 1801. His post commission bears date April 29th, 1802.
Captain Dickson commanded the Sea Fencibles at Dingle, in Ireland, from June 1807 until the dissolution of that force in 1810; and the Akbar frigate, mounting 60 guns, from May 1813 until Nov. 1814, part of which time he was employed on the Halifax station. He married his first cousin, Jane, daughter of the late Admiral William Dickson, and sister to Commander David John Dickson[3].
RIGHT HON. LORD WILLIAM FITZ-ROY, C.B.
(Vol. II. Part II. p. 863.)
This officer served as midshipman under Lord Hugh Seymour, in the Sans Pareil 80[4]; commanded the Mutine and Fairy sloops, in 1802 and 1803; was posted into the AEolus frigate, at Jamaica, Mar. 3d, 1804; sailed from thence with the homeward bound trade, on the 6th of the following month; assisted at the capture of four French line-of-battle ships, by the squadron under Sir Richard J. Strachan, Nov. 4th, 1805; took despatches to Halifax in 1807; and was
