rate, bearing his father’s flag; and in that ship assisted at the attack upon Porto Rico, in the ensuing month of April[1]. His post commission bears date March 27, 1797.
Captain Harvey’s subsequent appointments were to the Concorde, Lapwing, and Unité frigates. The former he commanded for a very short period. In the Lapwing he intercepted several of the enemy’s privateers and letters of marque, and accompanied Lord Hugh Seymour on the expedition against the Dutch colony of Surinam, which surrendered to the British arms, Aug. 20, 1799. The Unité was attached to the armament (under Rear-Admiral Duckworth) which took possession of the Danish and Swedish West India islands, in March 1801[2]; and she was subsequently ordered to escort a large fleet of merchantmen to England. Previous to his leaving the West Indies, the inhabitants of Montserrat voted Captain Harvey the sum of 100l. sterling, for the services he had rendered that colony. During the remainder of the war he was stationed off Margate, under the orders of Lord Nelson, whose flag was at one time hoisted on board the Unité.
From 1802 till the autumn of 1805, our officer appears to have been on half-pay. At the latter period he was appointed to the Standard of 64-guns, in which ship he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and joined Lord Collingwood’s fleet off Carthagena.
In our memoir of Sir W. Sidney Smith, p. 316, et seq., we have already given a brief account of the celebrated expedition against Constantinople, in 1807. The Standard having borne a very conspicuous part during the operations carried
- ↑ See note at p. 112, et seq.
- ↑ At the period of the Northern Confederacy – that confederacy which our great hero Nelson annihilated before the walls of Copenhagen – Rear-Admiral Duckworth and Lieutenant-General Trigge were ordered to seize upon the possessions of Denmark and Sweden in the West Indies. The naval and military forces employed on this occasion, consisting of one 74-gun ship, five frigates, two sloops of war, three smaller vessels, and about 3,500 troops, arrived off Great Saline Bay, in the island of St. Bartholomew, March 16, 1801; and a summons having been sent to the Governor, he, after some little hesitation, agreed to capitulate. On the morning of the 24th, the squadron, reinforced by another frigate and an armed ship, with a number of soldiers, appeared off St. Martin; and the Governor refusing to sur-
