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 Residence – Ethy, St. Winnoe, near Lostwithiel, Cornwall.



 officer is the second son of the late Colonel John Gore, who served many years in the 33d regiment, and retired from the command of that corps, in 1776, upon being appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Tower of London, where he died in 1794, leaving three sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Ralph, was then a captain in the 33d, and his youngest, Arthur, a lieutenant in the 73d regiment: the latter gentleman attained the rank of Major-General, and was slain on the walls of Bergen-op-Zoom, Mar. 9, 1814. The Gores are distantly related to the noble Irish family of Arran.

The subject of this memoir entered the navy as a midshipman on board the Monarca of 70 guns, Captain John Gell; but he first went to sea in the Canada 74, commanded by the Hon. William Cornwallis, with whom he sailed for North America, in Aug. 1781.

The Canada formed part of the fleet under Rear-Admiral Graves, when that officer proceeded from Sandy Hook to the Chesapeake, for the purpose of extricating Earl Cornwallis from his perilous situation at York Town. She subsequently accompanied Sir Samuel Hood to the West Indies, and bore a very conspicuous share in his brilliant actions at