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 General’s stay there, for the purpose of being distributed as guard-boats.

After witnessing the removal of Napoleon to the Northumberland, off Berry Head, Aug. 7, 1815, Captain Lillicrap returned to Plymouth, in company with Lord Keith; and on the 17th of the same month, he received Generals Savary and Lallemand, three Colonels, and several other officers, late belonging to Buonaparte’s suite, as passengers to Malta, where he delivered them into the charge of Sir Thomas Maitland, on the 19th Sept. The Eurotas was paid off on her return from that service.

In April, 1821, Captain Lillicrap obtained the command of the Hyperion; and on the 19th Sept. following, he sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, with Lord Charles Somerset and suite passengers. Finding on his arrival there, that Rear-Admiral Lambert had proceeded to England, he hoisted a broad pendant, agreeably to orders received from the Admiralty, and continued in the command on that station until relieved by Commodore Nourse, in 1822. Previous to his departure from thence, he rendered a very important service to the East India Company, the nature of which will be seen by the following handsome acknowledgment of the Hon. Court of Directors:–

“East India House, Nov. 1, 1822.

“Sir,– Representation having been made to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, of the great promptitude and exertion displayed by yourself and the officers and seamen employed under your command, in rescuing the Company’s extra ship Albion, Mr. Charles Weller, Master, homeward bound with treasure and a valuable cargo of merchandise, from the situation of extreme peril in which she was placed on the 10th of June last, off the Cape of Good Hope, when in a strong gale of wind she broke from her anchorage in Simon’s Bay, and drove to within the distance of a few fathoms from the rocks; – I have received the Court’s commands to acquaint you, that they have resolved to present you with the sum of Five Hundred Pounds for the purchase of a piece of plate, as a token of the Court’s appreciation of your meritorious conduct upon this occasion, whereby so many lives and so much valuable property were preserved from imminent danger.

“The Court also adverting to the successful exertions of the officers and seamen of His Majesty’s navy, who were employed in rendering 