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 and a 74 covered in that manner long before the expiration of his command in the river Tamar.

Captain Ayscough married, Dec. 18, 1813, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the late Captain Thomas Parr, R.N. (of Langdown House, co. Hants, a descendant of the celebrated Earl Godolphin); and has issue one son and two daughters.

Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney. 

 son of Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander I. Cochrane, G.C.B.

This officer was made a Commander, Sept. 24, 1805; and posted into the Jason frigate, at the Leeward islands, April 23, 1806.

On the 1st June following, a small party of seamen and marines belonging to the Jason, assisted by a boat’s crew from the Maria schooner, stormed and destroyed a battery of five large brass guns and one field-piece, near Aquadilla, in the island of Porto Rico. The particulars of this exploit will be given in our memoir of Captain Charles Julius Kerr, the officer who commanded on that occasion. The subsequent capture of a French national ship near the coast of Surinam, is thus described by Captain Cochrane:

“H.M.S. Jason, Jan. 28, 1807.

“Sir,– Having received your orders by H.M. sloop Osprey, I proceeded towards Maroney river, and yesterday morning at day-light, Soramine river bearing S. by E. 26 miles, discovered a ship and brig nearly six miles on the weather beam, apparently men of war; and from the information I received a few days before, conceived them to be the vessels of which we were in search. About a quarter before ten, I succeeded in bringing the ship to action within pistol-shot. She shortly after struck, and proved to be la Favorite (formerly in H.M. service), mounting 16 long sixes and 13 twelve-pounder carronades, with a complement of 150 men. The brig, from her sailing superior to la Favorite, and in consequence of signals from her, kept above gun-shot to windward, and I am sorry to say, from the time it took to exchange the prisoners, and being favored by the wind, she has made her escape. The brig mounts 14 brass 8-pounders, and has on board 120 men.

