by John Marshall

“ On the 2d Feb. 1804, Captain Gosselin was appointed to the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Admiral Cornwallis, then commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet, in which ship he remained until Sept. following, when he was removed to the Latona 38, and entrusted with the command of the in-shore squadron off Brest. For his services while thus employed, he received the thanks of Admirals Cornwallis, Lord Gardner, and Sir Charles Cotton. ”

“ In Jan. 1809, he received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, for his “unremitted exertions” in embarking the army after the battle of Coruna, the official despatches relative to which were written by Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope, on board the Audacious. ”

“ One of the latter was the Amphion, of twelve guns and seventy men.
On the 19th May, 1806, the Audacious, then forming part of a squadron under Sir Richard ;. Strachan, sailed from Plymouth in pursuit of six French line-of-battle ships; and on the 8th Aug., after having cruised for some time off Madeira and the Canaries, anchored in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes. A few days afterwards, when about eight degrees to the northward of that island, she was totally dismasted in a hurricane. In 1807, we find her attached to the Channel fleet; and in the beginning of 1808, employed in the blockade of Ferrol. ”