by John Marshall

“ We first find him serving under Sir Richard J. Strachan, in the Phoenix frigate, on the East India station [1] ; and next in the Alexander 74, commanded by the late Sir Richard Rodney Bligh, with whom he was taken prisoner and carried into Brest, in Nov. 1794 [2] . On his return from captivity he joined the Topaze frigate, Captain Stephen George Church; and on the 28th Aug. 1796, assisted at the capture of la Elizabet, French frigate, near Cape Henry, on the coast of America. His promotion to the rank of lieutenant took place in 1799 ”