by John Marshall

“ On the 1st October in that year, he was appointed to the Comus 22, Captain John Tailour, in which ship he proceeded to Africa, and was there very actively engaged in the suppression of the slave trade. The Comus appears to have been the first man-of-war that ever ascended the new Calabar river as high as Duke’s Town, where her boats captured seven Spanish and Portuguese vessels with 550 slaves embarked, after a determined resistance and much bloodshed. ”

“ Charles Yorke was pleased to grant him a commission. On the 1st Oct. following he was appointed to the Mulgrave 74, Captain Thomas James Maling, under whom he served off Cherbourg and in the Mediterranean until the summer of 1814. ”