by John Marshall

“ François de Paule, a brig of eight guns, partly laden with ship-timber, and Lieutenant M‘Dougall, in the launch, successfully co-operated with his messmate in bringing her out, under showers of grape, from a battery on the beach. Towards the end of Nov. following, while in charge of a large detained Austrian ship, and on his way to Malta, Lieutenant M‘Dougall fell in with three French men-of-war, when, “with a judgment and zeal which did him infinite credit,” he immediately resolved upon putting back, to acquaint the senior officer in the Adriatic that he had discovered the enemy. ”

“ Charles Sheldon Timins, R.N., many years commander of an East Indiaman. His elder brother was killed at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, in 1812. One of his younger brothers is in the army, and another in the law. ”

“ M‘Dougall, then belonging to l’Unité frigate. Captain P. Campbell, stationed in the Adriatic, commanded one of that ship’s boats in an attack upon five vessels under a battery, near the town of Omago. Ten days afterwards, he assisted in storming a battery, and capturing several sail of merchantmen near Point Salvooy. On the 28th April 1807, he was present at the reduction of the island of St. Piedro de Niembo. On the 12th June following, he commanded a division of boats at the capture of several vessels in the river Po, and the destruction of three signal posts. ”