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 29, 1802; and Post-Captain Aug. 12, 1812. During the late war he successively commanded the Speedy, Serpent, and Sheldrake, brigs; on the Channel and North Sea stations.

Captain Gifford is said to be the author of “The Remonstrance of a Unitarian, addressed to the Bishop of St. David’s;” and of “The Unitarians’ Defence;” being a reply in part to the late Rev. ___ Anderson’s Sermons, preached before the Deanery of Gower, and published at their request.

Agents.– Messrs. Maude & Co. 

 made Lieutenant in Aug. 1798; and Commander, Mar. 22, 1803. We subsequently find him in the Busy sloop, protecting the trade bound to Halifax and Newfoundland.

On the 13th April, 1804, Captain Clinch sailed from Portsmouth for the West India station; where he removed to the Osprey 18, in which vessel he captured le Teaser, French privateer, of 7 guns and 51 men, May 17, 1805. On the 27th June following, being then about 60 leagues to the N.E. of Barbuda, in company with the Kingfisher sloop, Captain Richard William Cribb, he was pursued by five French frigates; but no sooner did the enemy observe the Osprey and her consort hoist signals and fire guns, as if to a fleet a-head of them, than they relinquished the chase, and set fire to fifteen British merchant vessels under their charge, which had been captured about three weeks before, by the French and Spanish combined squadrons under Mons. Villeneuve: by this successful ruse on the part of Captains Cribb and Clinch, our inveterate enemies were deprived of booty which they valued at upwards of 200,000l.

In July, 1812, one of the Osprey’s boats, in company with another belonging to the Britomart brig, captured l’Eole French privateer, of 6 guns and 31 men, to the N.W. of Heligoland. In this spirited enterprise, which was conducted by Lieutenant Henry Dixon, of the Britomart, the British had