impression that will ever be retained in lively remembrance. We have the honor to be, with the highest sentiments of esteem, &c. &c. &c.
“To Pulteney Malcolm, Esq.
H.M.S. Donegal.”
On his arrival in England Captain Malcolm was honored with a gold medal, for his conduct in the action off St. Domingo; and in common with the other officers of the squadron, received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. He was also presented by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund with a vase value one hundred pounds[1].
In the summer of 1808, we find our officer escorting the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley from Cork to Portugal. Some days after the arrival of the transports in Mondego Bay, the troops were all landed in safety, notwithstanding a heavy surf; the same good fortune attended Captain Malcolm’s exertions in disembarking the various reinforcements which afterwards arrived; and there can be no doubt that the extraordinary efforts he made on those occasions, and for which he received the warm approbation and thanks of Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, contributed to the happy commencement of those glorious successes which afterwards attended the British arms in the Peninsula.
The Donegal was subsequently attached to the Channel fleet, at that time commanded by Lord Gambier; and after the memorable discomfiture of the French ships in Aix Roads, April 11 and 12, 1809, Captain Malcolm was entrusted with the command of a squadron sent on a cruize, during which,
- ↑ It may not be amiss in this place to remark, that from the renewal of the war in the spring of 1803, to the period when she arrived at Jamaica, after the above battle, the Donegal had been almost constantly at sea. Under her former commander, Sir Richard J. Strachan, she was principally employed in the blockade of Cadiz and Toulon; under Captain Malcolm she twice visited the West Indies; and from the day he joined her to that on which she entered Port Royal with the prizes, including a space of eleven mouths, was only at anchor 15 days, and then merely for the purpose of receiving supplies.
