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 of a Falmouth packet. One of his brothers, Stephen Bell, Esq. died in command of the Francis Freeling, a vessel of similar description, on the same station. Another brother was blown up in the Amphion frigate, Sept. 22, 1796.

Agent.– J. Copland, Esq. 

 of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Goate, of the West Suffolk militia.

This officer received his first commission in Nov. 1790; and at the commencement of the French revolutionary war, we find him serving as junior Lieutenant of the Orpheus a 32 gun frigate. Captain Henry Newcome, on the African station, where he assisted at the capture of several merchant vessels, in April, 1793.

Proceeding to Sierra Leone, in charge of four prize-brigs, with Mr. Willoughby and two other midshipmen under his orders. Lieutenant Goate struck on a shoal off Rio Grande, to the southward of the river Gambia, and in less than a quarter of an hour his vessel went to pieces, as did likewise Mr. Willoughby’s very soon afterwards. The perilous situation of the whole, owing to their ignorance of the coast, and having neither charts nor pilots on board, is thus described by one of the prizemasters:

“We parted company with our frigate on the 25th of April, and on the 27th or 28th, when running along the coast of Bissaos, with a strong