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 the rear of Socoa, preparatory to the attack of the enemy’s lines by Lord Wellington. On the 26th Mar. 1814, her master was killed and one man wounded, in a partial action with two French frigates, afterwards taken by the Hebrus 36, and Hannibal 74.

Captain Loch was posted into the Minstrel of 26 guns, Sept. 29, 1814; and appointed to the Eden, a ship of similar force, fitting for the East Indies, Mar. 21, 1818. He returned to England from that station, Aug. 11, 1821; and was soon afterwards put out of commission.

Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell. 

 born in 1781. He entered the navy in 1796, and served as midshipman on board the Captain 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Nelson, at the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797. He also fought under the same hero at Teneriffe, the Nile, and Trafalgar. We subsequently find him serving under Sir Alexander Cochrane, on the Leeward Islands station, where, he was promoted to the command of the Peruvian brig, Aug. 21, 1812. In that vessel he captured, after an anxious chase pf 15 hours, and a running fight of some duration, the American privateer ship John, of 16 guns and 100 men. He obtained post rank Oct. 1, 1814; and died, in Scotland, Aug. 21, 1826.



 descended from the Kerrs of Fernyhirst, N.B. His grandfather, James Kerr, Esq. was chosen M.P. for Edinburgh, at the general election that took place after the rebellion of 1745, and married the third daughter of Lord Charles Kerr, second son of Robert, the first Marquis of 