[1] He is next mentioned proceeding to join the Queen Charlotte, 110 guns, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, which ship, however, was accidentally destroyed by fire, near the island of Capreja, on 17 March 1800, only two or three days previous to his arrival at Leghorn.

[3] The Phoenix returned home from the Mediterranean in June 1802; and Maude appears to have subsequently served under Captain Lord William Stuart, in the Crescent frigate, on the North Sea and Channel stations.

Shortly after this event, Lieutenant Maude was appointed to the Lavinia, 40 guns, in which frigate he continued, under Captains Lord William Stuart and John Hancock, on the Channel, Oporto, and Mediterranean stations, until January 1809.

[3] His spirited conduct at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the Bay of Rosas, on 31 October 1809, on which occasion he was slightly wounded, is thus spoken of by Lord Collingwood, to whose flag-ship he had been removed from the Lavinia:Many officers in the fleet were desirous of being volunteers in this service.

Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, of the Bulwark, 74 guns, in destroying all the batteries between Tarifa and Gibraltar, with the concurrence of the Spanish authorities; and subsequently, in convoying some transports laden with corn, from Sardinia to Cadiz.

[5] In the beginning of 1815, he took out the treaty of peace, concluded at Ghent, between Great Britain and America; and on 13 March, only nineteen days after his departure from Washington, he arrived at the Foreign Office with the ratification of the same, by the President and Senate of the United States.

[7] Captain Maude's next appointment was on 15 May 1824, to the Dartmouth, 42 guns, fitting out for the Jamaica station; where his boats, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Warde, captured two piratical vessels; one mounting a long 12-pounder on a pivot, and manned with about fifty well armed desperadoes, some of whom were killed, and twelve taken prisoners to Havannah.

[7] In October following, he took out Viscount Strangford, the British ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburgh; and on his return from Cronstadt, towards the end of November, was sent to join the squadron in the Tagus, under the orders of Lord Amelius Beauclerk.