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 forces with bread and rum. She also formed part of the squadron sent up the Patapsco river, in Sept. 1814, to threaten the water approach to Baltimore, during the advance of Major-General Ross by land.

After that fruitless descent upon the enemy’s coast, Captain Bruce was removed to the Rover sloop, and ordered home with despatches. In 1815, he accompanied Rear-Admiral Sir George Burlton, and the outward bound East India trade, to the southward of the equator; touched at Maranham; and convoyed a fleet of merchantmen from Barbadoes to England. He subsequently cruised off Dieppe, in order to intercept Napoleon Buonaparte, should that personage attempt to escape from thence to America; and was proceeding with despatches from Lord Keith to Sir Henry Hotham when he met the Bellerophon, 74, off Ushant, with the idol of the French army on board.

The Rover was paid off in Oct. 1815; and Captain Bruce remained on shore from that time till March 1821, when he was appointed to the Sappho sloop, fitting for the Irish station, where he happened to be the senior commander employed when his Majesty visited the sister kingdom, and was received by the squadron under Sir Josias Rowley. He was consequently promoted to post rank on the 16th Nov. 1821; and superseded in the command of the Sappho on the 24th of the following month.

Captain Bruce married, in Feb. 1822, the second daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander J. Cochrane, G.C.B. whose flag-ship, the Britannia 120, he commanded from Oct. 4, 1823, until she was paid off, at Plymouth, April 3, 1824. His eldest surviving brother, Sir James Robertson Bruce, Bart, is in the royal artillery, with which distinguished corps he served in the peninsula and at Waterloo.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son. 

 and eldest surviving son of the late Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burrard, colonel of the first regiment of