From an engraving by Henry Meyer, after Samuel Woodford, R.A.

PORTRAIT OF LADY MAITLAND _At p._ lxviii
From a miniature at Lindores.

CHART OF THE BASQUE ROADS " 1

PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON " 68
From a sketch taken on board the _Bellerophon_ by Colonel
Planat.

NAPOLEON ON BOARD THE BELLEROPHON " 108
From the picture by W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., in the Tate
Gallery.

H.M.S. BELLEROPHON AT PLYMOUTH " 132
From the picture by J. J. Chalon, R.A., in the Painted Hall at
Greenwich.

TUMBLER GIVEN TO CAPTAIN MAITLAND BY NAPOLEON " 202
Photograph from the original at Lindores.

FACSIMILE OF PART OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NOTES ON THE
"NARRATIVE" " 230
Photograph from the original at Lindores.

MEMOIR

OF

SIR FREDERICK LEWIS MAITLAND.

The name of Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland has found a permanent place
in history as that of the captor of Napoleon. Apart from the rare
piece of good fortune which befell him in the Basque Roads in July
1815, his distinguished career of public service entitles him to an
honourable place in the records of the British Navy.

He was the third son of Captain the Hon. Frederick Lewis Maitland,
R.N., and was born at Rankeilour in Fife on September 7, 1777. His
father, Captain Maitland, was the sixth son of Charles, sixth Earl of
Lauderdale, grand-nephew of Charles II.'s famous minister, and was
godson to Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of George
II. He held various naval commands with distinction, served under
Rodney in 1782, and between 1763 and 1775 commanded the royal yacht.
He died in 1786, having been promoted rear-admiral just before his
death. Maitland's mother, Margaret Dick, was the heiress of the family
of Makgill of Rankeilour. The estates of that family were ultimately
inherited by her eldest son, Charles Maitland.

Young Maitland entered his father's profession at a very early age. He
served as a midshipman, first under Captain George Duff in the
_Martin_ sloop-of-war, and afterwards with the Hon. Robert Forbes in
the _Southampton_ frigate, in which he was present at Lord Howe's
great victory off Ushant on June 1, 1794,--the "glorious First of
June." On April 5, 1795, he was promoted to