The officers to whom the charge of the principal explosion vessels was confided by Lord Keith, were Commanders Donald M‘Leod (of the Sulphur), Samuel Jackson (Autumn), – Edwards (Fury), Valentine Collard (Railleur), and Thomas Searle (Helder); Lieutenants Hew Steuart (of the Monarch), – Lowry (Leopard), Charles Payne (Immortalité), and – Templer (Sulphur); the only midshipman thus employed was Mr. David Ewen Bartholomew, of the Inflexible. Captains Robert Winthrop and Edward W. C. R. Owen, of the Ardent and Immortalité, most zealously and usefully superintended the operations from the southward; and the Hon. Henry Blackwood (Euryalus), from the northward[1].
Captain M‘Leod was subsequently appointed to the Cygnet sloop of war. During the Copenhagen expedition, 1807, he commanded the Superb 74., bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Keats; and he afterwards successively served as flag-captain to the same distinguished officer, to Rear-Admiral William Albany Otway, and to Vice-Admiral John Holloway; the latter commander-in-chief at Newfoundland. His post commission bears date Jan. 22, 1806.
In the summer of 1810, we find Captain M‘Leod regulating the impress service at Liverpool, where he continued until the peace with France, in 1814. On the return of Napoleon Buonaparte from Elba, he assumed the command of Rear-Admiral W. H. Scott’s flag ship, on the Downs station; in Dec. following he was nominated a C.B.; and in the year 1819, he became superintending Captain of the ships in
- ↑ In addition to the officers mentioned by Lord Keith, and whose names we have given above, the following gentlemen volunteered to conduct catamarans, and consequently shared the dangers of the night of Oct. 2, 1804; Lieutenants Elliston and Pearce (Leopard), Orchard and Bridges (Veteran), Parker and Mainwaring (Leda), Tucker, Williams, and Sibthorp (Euryalus), Campbell and Williams (Adamant); Mr. Bowen, Master’s Mate of the Ardent; and Messrs. Rooke, Lloyd, and Crawford, Midshipmen of the Veteran and Leda. For a description of the ‘catamarans’ and an account of the manner in which they were employed, we must refer our rcaders to the Naval Chronicle, Vol. XII pp. 313–315.
