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  the rank of Lieutenant, Jan, 8, 1799; was made Commander, Feb. 1, 1812; and appointed to the Regulus 44, armed en flûte, Oct. 29, 1813. The principal services in which he was afterwards engaged have been fully detailed. His post commission bears date June 13, 1815.

Agents.– Messrs. Barnett and King. 

 a son of William Roberts, Esq., late a captain in the 2d or Queen’s regiment of dragoon guards, by Sarah Gawen, of Salisbury, whose family, for many generations, possessed considerable estates in Wiltshire. His paternal ancestors were related to the former Earls of Radnor, and long settled in Yorkshire, from whence his grandfather emigrated to Poland, where he formed a noble alliance, and had several children.

Mr. John C.G. Roberts was born at Salisbury, co. Wilts, Aug. 25, 1787; and brought into the royal navy at a very early age, by his maternal uncle, Lieutenant Jeffery Gawen; but under the patronage of that inestimable and much lamented nobleman, the late Earl of Pembroke, K.G.

After serving the necessary time as midshipman, on board the Dreadnought 98, Captain James Vashon, and Naiad frigate, successively commanded by Captains James Wallis