Harvey suffered a most severe attack of yellow fever at Antigua, from the effects of which he did not recover for a very considerable period. His next appointment was to the Salisbury 50, Captain William Mitchell, and in that ship, after running along the coast of Guinea, he once more proceeded to the West Indies, where he again had the misfortune to be wrecked. May 13, 1796: this disaster occurred at the Isle of Vache, from whence he started in one of her boats, with the intelligence thereof, for Jamaica. On his way thither he was intercepted and disarmed by an enemy’s privateer, but allowed to proceed without any further molestation.
From Port Royal, Lieutenant Harvey was despatched by Captain Roddam Home, of the Africa 64, in a schooner, to join the commander-in-chief at Cape Nicola Mole, St. Domingo, where he received an appointment to the Canada, a third rate, in which he served under Captains George Bowen, Thomas Twysden, Sir John B. Warren, and the Hon. Michael De Courcy, until about Nov. 1800; when he followed the last named officer but one into the Renown 74.
The Canada bore Sir John B. Warren’s broad pendant in the action with Mons. Bompard, off the N.W. coast of Ireland, Oct. 12, 1798; and formed part of the expedition to Quiberon, in the summer of 1800[1]. The manner in which the Renown was employed, from the time Lieutenant Harvey joined her till towards the latter end of 1804, will be seen by reference to Vol. II. Part I. pp. 231–233: she returned to England, from the Mediterranean, under the command of Sir Richard J. Strachan, in the spring of 1805.
We next find the subject of this memoir serving in the Bellona 74, from which ship he was appointed first Lieutenant of the Foudroyant 80, bearing the flag of Sir John B. Warren, a short time previous to the capture of the Marengo and Belle Poule, by the squadron under that officer’s orders[2]. Having conducted the former prize safely into port, he was promoted to the rank of Commander, by commission dated May 20, 1806.
