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 guns, in which brig he captured the following armed vessels, on the Leeward Islands station:

Captain Sanders obtained post rank June 2, 1809.

Agents.– Messrs Stilwell. 

 son of George, the first Marquis Townshend, by his second lady, Anne, daughter’ of Sir William Montgomery, Bart.

This officer was born Sept. 11, 1785; and he appears, by Mr. James’s account, to have been first Lieutenant of the Atlas 74, in Sir J. T. Duckworth’s action, off St. Domingo, Feb. 6, 1806, His promotion to the rank of Commander took place Nov. 14 following.

On the 15th Aug. 1807, Lord James Townshend addressed an official letter to Vice-Admiral Berkeley, commander-in-Chief at Halifax, of which the following is a copy:

“Sir,– I beg leave to represent to you, that the five men named in the margin, belonging to H.M. sloop Halifax, under my command; when sent with a petty officer in the jolly-boat, in Hampton roads, on the 7th March last, to weigh a kedge-anchor, which had previously been dropped for the purpose of swinging the ship by, taking advantage of the dusk of the evening, mutinied upon the petty officer, some of them threatening to murder him; but the rest interfering they desisted. However, taking the boat under their own command, they succeeded in deserting, by landing at