station, was employed in the respective blockades of Genoa and Malta[1]. Early in the following year, he accompanied Lord Keith to Aboukir Bay, where he commanded the left wing of the boats employed to land the army under Sir Ralph Abercromby[2]. For his conduct on this occasion, and during the subsequent operations in that quarter, the gold medal of the Turkish Order of the Crescent was presented to him by order of the Grand Seignior[3].
Captain Scott continued in the Mediterranean during the suspension of hostilities, occasioned by the treaty of Amiens; and retained the command of the Stately till Aug. 1804, when he joined the Success of 32 guns. From the latter he removed March 13, 1806, into the Malabar 54; which ship he left on the 31st July following.
His next appointment was, June 11, 1807, to the Horatio, a 38-gun frigate, built of fir. On the 10th Feb. 1809, being in the neighbourhood of the Virgin Islands, he fell in with, and at three-quarters of an hour past noon brought la Junon, a French frigate of the largest class, to close action, which was maintained with the greatest skill and bravery on both sides till 3h 25' P.M. when the Latona frigate, which had previously chased the enemy, arrived within pistol-shot; and in a few minutes afterwards la Junon, having lost her fore and mizen-masts, was compelled to surrender.
In this gallant action the Horatio had 7 men killed and 26 wounded 5 among the latter was Captain Scott, who, after being deprived of the services of his first Lieutenant, received a very severe wound in the shoulder by a grape-shot, and was thereby obliged to leave the ship in charge of the Hon. George Douglas, by whom his place was most nobly supplied, She was also much cut up in her masts and rigging, the enemy in the early part of the conflict having used every effort in his power to disable her. The Latona had 6 men slightly wounded, and lost her fore-mast two minutes after the firing had ceased, The Driver, a ship-sloop, closed towards the termination of the affair, but does not appear to have been of
- ↑ See Vol. I. pp. 53 and 281.
- ↑ See Vol. I., note †, at p. 259; and note *, at p. 313.
- ↑ See Vol. I. note at p. 129.
