army as well as a stockpile of arms, and continued to harry the French army as they retreated down the coast. By October Morris had completed this duty, and he was serving off Malaga; on 28 October the boats of Phaeton successfully cut out the Spanish 14-gun polacca San Josef from under the guns of an enemy battery. In 1801 Phaeton moved from the centre of the Mediterranean to continue serving off the coast of Spain and on 16 May Morris sent his ship's boats, in tandem with those of the 32-gun frigate HMS Naiad, in to Marin where they captured the Spanish armed packet L'Alcudia and destroyed her compatriot El Raposo. Morris continued serving off Spain until the end of the year when he was sent home to England with dispatches from Admiral Lord Keith. He arrived at Portsmouth on 27 February 1802 and paid off Phaeton. Trafalgar Morris stayed on half pay throughout the Peace of Amiens but upon the start of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803 he was given command of the Sea Fencibles located between Blackwater and the River Stour on 12 July. On 10 October of the same year he was given command of the 50-gun fourth rate HMS Leopard as flagship to Commodore Charles Cunningham. Morris stayed in Leopard only until 11 May 1804 because he was then given command of the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Colossus. When Morris first joined Colossus, a brand new ship, her crew was sickly and "unpromising", but he worked to improve the ship while serving in the fleet of Admiral William Cornwallis off Brest, and the ship would go on to be described as an "excellent sailer" there. He and Colossus served off Brest until October 1805 when they were sent to join the fleet of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson off Cadiz. As part of such on 21 October Morris fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. In the battle Colossus was the sixth ship in the leeward column, led by Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood. As he reached the enemy line, Morris had Colossus fire her starboard guns in order to create a smoke screen to assist their advance. In the fighting that came after the two columns of Nelson's fleet had pierced the Franco-Spanish line of battle Colossus received the most damage and casualties out of any British ship in the battle with 40 men killed and 160