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 upon the limited resources of Captain Tucker, will consider him, if possible, entitled to greater praise for his address and judgment in removing so many prisoners, finding the means of subsistence for the British garrisons, and protecting them for many months before supplies and reinforcements were received from India.

The Dover returned to Madras without the loss of a single man by sickness, and in such a complete state, that Captain Tucker immediately volunteered lo accompany the expedition then about to proceed against Batavia; but circumstances prevented him from sailing with it, and his ship was unfortunately wrecked, during a hurricane which arose very soon after its departure.

Captain Tucker received the honor of knighthood May 6, 1813; and in the course of the same year we find him commanding the Inconstant frigate, on the South American station, from whence he returned to England in the autumn of 1815. He was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, in the latter year.

Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney. 

 of a respectable country gentleman, who is the eldest branch of the Mount Edgcumbe family.

The subject of this memoir was born on his father’s estate, Edgcumbe, Milton-Abbott, near Tavistock, in the county of Devon, Dec. 9, 1775; the house in which he drew his first breath is supposed to have been built in 1292, as these figures, and the initials R.E., are still legible on its walls. Mr. John Edgcumbe entered the naval service in Dec. 1788, under the patronage of Admiral Viscount Mount Edgcumbe; of which nobleman a memoir will be found in the Naval Chronicle, Vol. XXII, p. 177, et seq.

