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  of that island, whose brethren at Trinidad also voted him their thanks for rescuing considerable property belonging to them, which had fallen into the hands of some Spanish pirates, and been carried into la Guiara. The Scamander was paid off at Portsmouth, in November 1818.

Captain Elliot’s last appointment was, Nov. 22, 1823, to the Lively of 46 guns, in which frigate he escorted Don Miguel, then an exile, from Lisbon to Brest: on his return to the Tagus, he was honored with the company of King John, the Infantas of Portugal, and the Ministers of State, all of whom had been invited to a grand fête given on board the Lively, and which his Portuguese Majesty declared to be the most splendid entertainment he ever witnessed. Among other honors distributed by the happy monarch, to commemorate his restoration to power, was the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword, set in diamonds, presented to the subject of this memoir, who has since received his own sovereign’s most gracious permission to accept and wear the same.

On the 2d Jan. 1826, the Lively arrived at Plymouth from Vera Cruz, with despatches, announcing the surrender of the castle of St. Juan d’Ulloa to the Mexican forces. On her being paid off, the officers gave a splendid dinner to Captain Elliot, at the Royal Hotel, Devonport, “to evince their sense of his kindness to them, while under his command, and as a mark of their high esteem for the man and for the officer.”

Captain Elliot married, first, in 1806, Lucretia, daughter of the Rev. John Harries of Newfoundland; and by that lady, who died at Barbadoes, in 1818, he had four children, all of whom are deceased: 2dly, Sarah, daughter of John Parkin, Esq., ship-builder at Frank Quarry, co. Devon, by whom he has issue two sons and one daughter. He has three brothers in the naval service, viz.– John, a Purser; and Thomas and James, Lieutenants. One of his sisters is married to Lieutenant Lapidge, R.N.

Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.

