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 august Prince could not do, as none beneath the rank of General and Flag-officers are now admitted to the honor of K.C.B.

One of Sir Nisbet J. Willoughby’s brothers, a captain in the 50th regiment of foot, was drowned at the debarkation of the British army, under Earl Cathcart, near Copenhagen, August 16, 1807. His youngest brother Ferris, perished in the Sylph sloop, off Long Island, Jan. 17, 1815.

There is an excellent full length portrait of Sir Nisbet J. Willoughby (by Barber) at VVollaton, the principal seat of the head of his family, Henry Lord Middleton: the same mansion also contains one of Admiral Sir Hugh Willoughby, who was frozen to death in a desert part of Russian Lapland, when endeavouring to discover a N.E. passage to China, in the year 1553.



 officer is related to Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, K.C.B. He was made a Lieutenant in Aug. 1796;