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 of Mr. Macdonald, the British Consul at Algiers, whose other daughter has since been united to the Danish consul resident at that regency.



 born in 1784; made a lieutenant in 1801; and advanced to the rank of commander Sept. 29, 1808. He commanded the Vimiera brig, and assisted at the capture of the islands of St. Martin’s, St. Eustatius, and Saba, in Feb. 1810.

His post commission bears date April 3, 1811; at which period we find him in the Thais of 20 guns.

Captain Scobell was subsequently sent to the African station, where he captured the American privateer brig Rambler, of 12 guns and 88 men. Mar. 31, 1813. The cause of his giving up the command of the Thais, in Jan. 1814, is stated.

In Aug. 1815, Captain Scobell was appointed to the Bann 20, but he never went to sea in that vessel. He married April 19, 1816, Rebecca Anne, only child of Richard Collins, of Brockhurst Lodge, Hants, Esq.; and died at Poltair, near Penzance, after repeated attacks of apoplexy, April 17, 1825.



 officer is descended from a family of the same name, residing near Wigan, co. Lancashire, in the reign of Edward III. his father, Edward Markland, Esq. married Elizabeth Sophia, second daughter of Josiah Hardy, Esq. H.B.M. Consul at Cadiz, and formerly Governor of the Jerseys, in North America; a son of the first Sir Charles Hardy, Knt. by the daughter and heiress of Josiah Burchett, Esq. many