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  in Captain Schomberg’s public letter respecting the action off Madagascar, the subject of this sketch, on his arrival in England, demanded a court-martial, which the Board of Admiralty did not think proper to grant; and we shall therefore merely state that Captain Losack was continued in the command of the Galatea until the conclusion of the war. A copy of Captain Schomberg’s official despatch will be found ; and a long account of the action is given by Mr. James, in his Naval History, edit. 2nd, Vol. VI. pp. 22–38.

Captain Losack married, first, March 16, 1809, a Miss Gordon, who died in 1815; and 2dly, Aug. 23, 1823, the widow of Captain Edward L. Crofton, R.N. C.B.

Agent.– A. C. Marsh, Esq. 

 Son of the late Sir Elijah Impey. Made a Lieutenant in 1793, promoted to the rank of Commander in 1802, and posted Jan. 22, 1806.

Agent.– Sir Francis Ommanney. 

 Son of Lieutenant Robert Kerr, R.N. who died at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, in 1805.

The subject of this memoir entered the naval service as a Midshipman on board the Endymion 44, commanded by Captain (now Lord) Gambler, in Nov. 1781; and served in that ship, the Nemesis, Alarm, and Boreas frigates; Rattler sloop of war, Orion 74, Narcissus 20, and Boyne 98; under Captains Edward Tyrrel Smith, Charles Cotton, Horatio Nelson, James Wallace, Sir Hyde Parker, Philip d’Auvergne, John Salusbury, Paul Minchin, and George Bowyer; on the 