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 Sir Josiah Coghill has been twice married: his present lady is the eldest daughter of Charles Kendall Bushe, Esq. the late Solicitor-General in Ireland.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son. 

 made a Lieutenant in 1800, and promoted to the rank of Commander, July 30, 1805. On the 18th Dec. following, being then in the Kingfisher sloop, he captured l’Elisabeth, French privateer, of 14 guns and 102 men.

Captain N. D. Cochrane is the officer who brought home the despatches announcing the result of the action between Sir John T. Duckworth and the French Rear-Admiral Leissegues, off St. Domingo his advancement to post rank took place Mar. 26, 1806; and he subsequently commanded the Alexandria and Orontes frigates, on the North Sea and Cape of Good Hope stations.

Agents.– Messrs. Maude. 

 of the late Captain Ayscough, R.N. a gallant and veteran officer, who was often wounded whilst fighting the enemies of his country; who expended a large portion of his private property in raising several thousands of seamen for her service, at the period when she was engaged in a serious dispute with Spain, respecting the occupancy of Falkland’s Islands; and whose last injunction to his sons, then very young, was “Serve your King and Country .”

