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On the 26th June, in the latter year, Captain Willes obtained permission to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight of the third class of the above Neapolitan Order, which the King of the Two Sicilies had been pleased to confer upon him, for his " great courage and intrepidity," as first lieutenant of the Spartan. He was removed from the Leveret to the Bacchus brig, Dec. 6, 1813; advanced to post rank, June 7, 1814; and appointed to the Cherub 26, fitting for the coast of Africa, Oct. 3, 1817. His subsequent appointments were, Dec. 15, 1818, to the Cherub, 26; and, Jan. 17, 1823, to the Brazen of similar force; in which latter ship we find him successively employed on the South American and African stations. He returned to Portsmouth from Sierra Leone, Dec. 4, 1826.

Captain Willes married Anne Ellen, second daughter of Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart. His brother. Lieutenant Cornelius Willes, R.N. died at Gosport, Hants, July 10, 1810, aged 22 years.

Agent.– Messrs. Stilwell. 

 made lieutenant. Mar. 21, 1807; promoted to the command of the Sappho brig, June 15, 1810; and advanced to post rank, while serving in that vessel, on the Jamaica station, June 7, 1814.



 the eldest son of Admiral Sir John Knight, K.C.B. by his first wife, who died in Nov. 1798.

This officer entered the navy at an early age, and served for