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 satisfaction to H.R.H., may be judged of from the circumstance of his being honored by a nomination as Groom of the Bedchamber to H.R.H., and the mark of favor shewn by his Sovereign, who, in October of the same year, conferred upon him the title of Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. He was knighted at Windsor, on the 24th of the following month.

Sir Robert C. Spencer now commands the Madagascar 46, on the Mediterranean station. He received his appointment to that ship Sept. 26, 1828; and sailed from Portsmouth Jan. 21, 1829. His brother, the Hon. Frederick Spencer, commanded the Talbot 28, at the battle of Navarin.



 made lieutenant Mar. 30, 1805; commander Dec. 27, 1808; and post-captain June 6, 1814.

On the 14th Dec. 1809, being then in the Pylades sloop, on the Mediterranean station, he captured l’Aigle French privateer, of 10 guns and 80 men.

Captain Ferguson married, first, in 1812, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of J. Woodhouse, Esq. of Aramstone House, Herefordshire; and secondly, in April, 1825, the Hon. Elizabeth Jane Rowley, sister to the present Lord Langford.

Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co. 

 son of the late Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart. by Jane, eldest daughter of Edward Collingwood, of Greenwich, Esq.

