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  his troops and go to Jamaica, which island he particularly wished to visit. He was accordingly received on board the frigate, with several of his near relations; and the whole were soon afterwards conveyed to Port Royal in the Decouverte, a schooner under Captain James’s orders. The garrison of Carthagena were subsequently starved into a surrender; Castilto and many of his adherents were put to death, by order of the royalist general, Morillo; and Bolivar, had he been there, would doubtless have shared the same fate. The Tanais was paid off in May, 1816.

Captain James married, in 1803, Bridget Elizabeth, second daughter of Arthur Raymond, of Lyme, co. Dorset, Esq.

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 son of the late John Davie, of Orleigh, near Bideford, Esq.; a gentleman of considerable landed property in Devonshire, and a magistrate for that county.

The subject of this sketch was born at Orleigh, May 8, 1776; and he appears to have entered the naval service as a midshipman on board the Apollo frigate. Captain Charles Powell Hamilton, in 1782.

We subsequently find him serving in various ships, on the Mediterranean, West India, Newfoundland, and Channel stations. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place Aug. 28, 1793; on which occasion he was appointed to command a gun-boat employed at Toulon.

From thence Mr. Davie returned home in command of le Pompée 74; and on his arrival in England he was directed to assist Rear-Admiral Christian in making arrangements for the disposal of her crew, and numerous other French emigrants. He afterwards joined the Diana, a new 38-gun frigate, and continued in that ship for a period of three years, principally as first Lieutenant.

