sentences:  On 2 December 1796, in command of the frigate , he led a squadron which destroyed a French settlement in Madagascar and captured five merchant vessels.In 1799 he briefly commanded before she became a troopship, and in 1801 took command of the newly commissioned frigate , serving in the Baltic Sea and then to the West Indies.In May 1805 he was in command of the frigate , cruising off the Texel, and from the records of one of his crew, it appears he was appointed to the command of , a 74-gun third-rate, with effect from 12 July 1806.