this occasion, sustained some trifling damage in her masts and hull, and had several men hurt by the explosion of a cartridge on the main-deck. Le Buonaparte was found in a very shattered condition, having lost her foremast, bowsprit, and top-masts, in a previous action with three English letters of marque; but no mention is made of her loss, if any, by the Cyane’s fire, in Captain Cadogan’s official letter.
On the 12th May, 1805, the Cyane was herself taken by two French frigates, near Martinique; and from that period we find no mention of Captain Cadogan until his promotion to post rank, Mar. 23, 1807. In the following year he commanded the Crocodile frigate, and had the honor of conveying Sir Arthur Wellesley from England to the peninsula.
Captain Cadogan’s next appointment was to the Pallas frigate, and in her he appears to have been very actively employed during the expedition against Antwerp. The following mention of him is made in Commodore Owen’s letter to Sir Richard J. Strachan, reporting the evacuation of Walcheren, in Dec. 1809.
“On the morning of the 23d, I received your letter, acquainting me that you intended to quit Flushing on that day. * * * * * I immediately made preparation likewise to withdraw. The boats assembled, and embarked the rear-guard of the army, under the direction of the Hon. Captain Cadogan; whilst the few remaining guns of Veere and Armuyden points were rendered useless, and every other article of stores was taken off. * * * * * In the Hon. Captain Cadogan, of the Pallas, I found a most Zealous second and supporter.”
In 1811, Captain Cadogan commanded the Havannah of 42 guns, employed on Channel service. On the 6th Sept. same year, observing that six chasse-marées had taken shelter under a battery of three 12-pounders, on the S.W. side of the Penmarks, he sent his first Lieutenant (the present Commander William Hamley) with the boats of the frigate, to spike the guns, and bring out or destroy the vessels, which service was performed in a very creditable manner. Four of the prizes taken on this occasion were laden with wine and brandy, as was also another which Lieutenant Hamley dismantled and set fire to; the sixth vessel had nothing on board but salt.
