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  officer served as lieutenant under Earl St. Vincent; obtained the rank of commander Aug. 4, 1806; and was appointed to the Lyra brig about Jan. 1810. His subsequent services, on the north coast of Spain, have been noticed in our memoirs of Sir George R. Collier and Captain Joseph Needham Tayler, C.B. He was advanced to post rank Sept. 23, 1813; and nominated a C.B. in 1815.



 made commander Jan. 22, 1806; and appointed to the Tweed, a new 18-gun sloop, fitting for the Jamaica station, in the spring of 1807. His conduct while employed in co-operation with the Spanish troops investing the city of St. Domingo is thus described by Captain William Pryce Cumby, in an official letter to Vice-Admiral B. S. Rowley, dated July 7, 1809:–

In Oct. 1810, Captain Symonds, then on the North Sea station, captured the Steinbill, Danish cutter privateer, of 10 guns and 30 men. He continued to command the Tweed until his promotion to post rank, Sept. 29, 1813,

Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.

