li INTRODUCTION. 
January 1801 ; but in the course of a month his complaint 
of the liver returned, and his health suffered so many severe 
shocks that he was reduced to a skeleton, and obliged to 
make his way back to India, where the physician of the 
fleet advised him to return home, as the only means of his 
accomplishing his recovery; and the Admiral entrusted 
him with his dispatches. 
His native climate had the desired effect ; and imme- 
diately on the re-establishment of his health he applied to 
ithe Admiralty for active employment ; accordingly in 1802 
he was appointed First Lieutenant of His Majesty’s ship 
Calcutta, in which situation he served during the whole of 
her long and arduous voyage, the object of which was to 
form a new establishment in New South Wales. Here Lieut. 
Tuckey had an opportunity of rendering very essential ' 
service, which was strongly acknowledged by the Lieu- 
tenant Governor, Colonel Collins, who transmitted to the 
First Lord of the Admiralty a most flattering testimony of 
his merits; and in particular for a complete survey he had 
made of the harbour of Port Philip, and for his examination 
of the adjacent coast and surrounding country. He was also 
furnished by the Lieutenant Governor with letters of recom- 
mendation to Sir Joseph Banks. He reached England in 
1804, and published an account of the voyage. 
But the favourable testimonies he had received were 
rendered abortive by the capture of the Calcutta in 1805, 
on her homeward voyage from St. Helena (whither she had 
been sent to bring home some ships under her convoy) 
and by an imprisonment of nearly nine years in France. 
For the preservation of a valuable convoy entrusted to his 
charge, Captain Woodriff, with a conduct which, as truly 
