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 Attempt to lay the Skylark on board, obliged Captain Sturt to fire at her, by which the French commander was wounded, and his lugger’s main-mast shot away.

The Termagant formed part of the squadron under Rear Admiral (now Sir George) Martin, when that officer was employed in protecting Sicily from an invasion, threatened by Murat, in 1810; and Captain Sturt was rewarded with a post commission for his active services, as senior officer of the mortar-boats then stationed in the Faro of Messina. He takes rank from Oct. 21, 1810. Since the peace he has commanded the Phaeton of 46 guns, in which frigate he conveyed the Right Hon. C. R. Vaughan, British Ambassador, to North America, in 1825; and afterwards brought home three miirums of dollars, from the West Indies.

Captain Sturt married a Portuguese lady, whom he had assisted in her flight from a convent in one of the Western Islands.

Agent.– ___ M‘Inerheny, Esq. 

 first find this officer serving as a midshipman under Sir W. Sidney Smith, at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in 1799. Whilst thus employed he was wounded by a musket-ball passing through the muscle under his left arm, but which does not appear to have incapacitated him for more than a few weeks. On his recovery he was entrusted by his heroic chief with the command of the flotilla on the coast of Damietta. He next joined the flag-ship of Lord Keith, who, we believe, gave him a commission, in the year 1800.

From this period we lose sight of Captain Janvrin until he received an appointment to a command in the flotilla attached to the Walcheren expedition. The evacuation of that island being at length determined upon, he was then charged by Sir Richard J. Strachan with the duties of the port of Flushing, and Commodore (now Sir Edward) Owen, who conducted the retreat from