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 the directions of Lieutenant Richard Stovin Maw, captured an American gun-vessel and four merchantmen, part of a convoy which had heen discovered passing between Cumberland and Jekyll islands. The British on this occasion had 4 officers and men wounded; the enemy, 1 man killed, 4 wounded, and several driven overboard.

One of the last acts of hostility in that quarter of the world was the attack of fort St. Petre and the town of St. Mary’s, already noticed in our memoir of Captain Robert Barrie, C.B.: the subject of this memoir, who had for several months previous been employed with a squadron under his orders blockading the enemy’s ports and rivers between Cape Fear and Amelia Island, was afterwards sent up the Chesapeake to recapture an East India ship recently taken by the Americans, and which he succeeded in bringing down the river without any resistance on the part of the enemy. He returned to Portsmouth June 4, 1815, after assisting at the capture and destruction of property calculated at more than half a million sterling.

Captain Jackson’s next appointment was, Aug. 29, 1815, to the Niger 38, which frigate appears to have been successively employed conveying the Hon. Charles Bagot, ambassador to the United States, from Portsmouth to Annapolis; and Sir John Sherbrooke, Governor of Canada, from Halifax to Quebec. During the winter of 1816, we find him left as senior officer on the coast of Nova Scotia, where he continued until his ship was found unserviceable, when he returned to England in a transport, bringing with him the officers and crew of the Niger.

Being put out of commission on his arrival, in Sept. 1817, Captain Jackson remained on half pay for upwards of five years; but was at length appointed to command the Ordinary at Sheerness, which highly responsible office he held during the established period. The insignia of a C.B. was conferred upon him in 1815, as a reward for his long and meritorious services.

Captain Jackson married, Dec. 6, 1817, Clarissa Harriet, daughter of Captain Madden, Agent for the Portsmouth 