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1142 armée en flûte, and troop-ship. In the (in which ship he was wrecked on the north end of the island of Barbuda in a violent hurricane, 6 Nov. 1813) he conveyed Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, 4 Commanders, 8 Lieutenants, 24 Midshipmen, upwards of 400 seamen, and the frames of several gun-vessels from England to Quebec, for the Lake service in Canada. During his command of the he was employed with great activity on the North American station. At the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, 22 Aug. 1814, being the Senior-Commander present, he had charge of a division of boats and tenders, and by his “cheerful and indefatigable exertions” proved himself “most justly” entitled to the “warmest acknowledgments” of Rear-Admiral Cockburn, by whom he was earnestly recommended to the favourable notice of Sir Alex. Cochrane. In his despatch to the Commander-in-Chief, announcing the failure of the Baltimore expedition, the Rear-Admiral thus expresses himself: “It is, Sir, with the greatest pride and pleasure I report to you that the brigade of seamen with small arms, commanded by Capt. Edw. Crofton, assisted by Capts. Sulivan, Money, and Ramsay (the three Senior Commanders in the fleet), who commanded divisions under him, behaved with a gallantry and steadiness which would have done honour to the ablest troops, and which attracted the admiration of the army.” In March, 1815, Capt. Sulivan, who had been promoted to Post-rank 19 Oct. 1814, left the Weser. He was nominated a C.B. 4 June following. On 18 March, 1836, he obtained command of the 74, at Plymouth; and from 26 Nov. in that year until paid off on his return to England in the spring of 1841 he served as Commodore on the South American station, with his broad pendant in the  46. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Sulivan married, 19 March, 1808, Henrietta, youngest daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James, by whom he has had issue 14 children. Three of his sons are in the Naval service, one of them,, a Captain.

 SULIVAN. 

passed his examination 7 Jan. 1843; obtained his commission 10 Aug. following; was appointed, 13 Jan. 1846, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads; and, since 7 Aug. 1847, has been serving in the  40, Commodore Jas. Hanway Plumridge, now in the East Indies.

 SULIVAN. 

is first-cousin of

This officer entered the Navy 25 Jan. 1811; passed his examination in 1820; and was made Lieutenant, 25 April, 1825, into the 18, Capt. John Leith, on the West India station. He had, while serving as Midshipman and Mate in the, , and frigates, been very actively and usefully employed against the pirates on the coast of Cuba and in the Isle of Pines. His appointments after he left the were – 18 May, 1826, to the  46, Capt. Geo. Harris, again in the West Indies, where, while filling the post of Senior Lieutenant, he was wounded in the boats at the capture of a slave-brig of 10 guns and 57 men – 13 May, 1829, to the 18, Capt. Joseph Harrison, fitting for the coast of Africa – l8 March, 1833, to the command of the  steamer, on the same station, whence he returned to England and was paid off at the close of 1834 – and, 19 Jan. 1836, as Second-Lieutenant, to the  74, bearing the flag of Sir Peter Halkett, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies. On the latter ship being paid off she was immediately recommissioned by Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas for the flag of Rear-Admiral Hon. Geo. Elliot at the Cape of Good Hope, and Mr. Sulivan was at the same time, 1 Sept. 1837, again appointed to her as First-Lieutenant. He proceeded ultimately to the coast of China, and while there he was promoted, 25 June, 1840, to the command of the 18. Before he joined that vessel, however, he appears to have been for a time a Supernumerary-Commander in the. He continued in the on the East India station until 1843, when he returned to England and was paid off. He was advanced to his present rank 29 April, 1847. – Fred. Dufaur.

 SULLIVAN, Bart. 

, born 28 Feb. 1789, is second son of the late Sir Rich. Joseph Sullivan, Bart., by Mary, only surviving daughter of Thos. Lodge, Esq., of Leeds; and brother of Sir Henry Sullivan, Bart., Lieut.-Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, who fell in a sortie from the garrison of Bayonne, 14 April, 1814; also of Major Arthur Sullivan, who died 7 June, 1832; and of the present Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Sullivan. His youngest sister, Elizabeth, married the Hon. and Rev. Fred. Pleydell Bouverie, brother of Vice-Admiral Hon. D. P. Bouverie. One of his uncles, the Right Hon. John Sullivan (father-in-law of the late Capt. John Jas. Stuart, R.N., and of the present Capt. Sir Geo. Tyler, Kt., K.H.), was Under Secretary-at-War from 1801 until 1805. Different members of his family have ranked high in the Army.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 Feb. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and Henry Hill, with whom he was for 14 months employed in the Baltic and North Sea. In June, 1802, he joined the 50, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambier at Newfoundland; and in June, 1804, he removed as Midshipman (a rating he had before attained) to the 74, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies; where he assisted at the capture, 27 Nov. 1806, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other merchant- vessels lying in Batavia Roads. He contributed also to the reduction of Sourabaya; and while acting subsequently as Lieutenant in the 36, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, he aided in the boats at the cutting out, 31 Aug. 1807, of a schooner of 8 guns and a large merchant-brig at. On the following day he aided in making prize of the Scipio corvette of 24 guns, with two other vessels, the Resolutie armed merchantship of 700 tons richly laden, and the Ceres, a remarkably fine brig, in the Dutch Company’s Service, of 12 guns and 70 men. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 25 April, 1808, into the frigate, Capts. John Bastard, Wm. Dawson, Geo. Bell, and Wm. Wilbraham, on the East India station; was nominated, 26 Oct. 1811, Acting-Commander of the Madagascar at the Isle of France; was officially promoted on his return to England in that vessel 24 March, 1812; and from 26 Oct. 1813 until 3 Oct. 1814 was employed in the troop-ship on the coast of North America. His promotion to Post-rank took place 7 June in the latter year. He commanded the 42 from 19 Aug. 1825 until the commencement of 1829, and the  84 in the Mediterranean from 14 Dec. 1841 until transferred, 23 April, 1844, to the  110; which ship he brought home and paid off in the course of the same year. In the, after serving off the coast of Portugal at the time the army of occupation was at Lisbon, Sir Chags. Sullivan visited the Morea with Sir Fred. Adam, Alexandria with the present Lord Howden, and Rio de Janeiro with Lord Strangford, and was for six months employed on the latter station under the broad pendant of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. The, while he was in her, got on shore, in Nov. 1842, near Barcelona, and was rescued by the 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell. In March, 1844, Sir Charles witnessed the settlement of the