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  A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Knight of the Royal French Order of St. Louis, and Knight of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne.

officer is the third surviving son of Earl Spencer, K.G. formerly First Lord of the Admiralty, by Lady Lavinia Bingham, eldest daughter of Charles, first Earl of Lucan.

He was born, April 14, made lieutenant, into the Myrmidon of 20 guns, Captain Robert Gambier, on the Mediterranean station, July 14, 1818; removed to the Albion 74, flag-ship of Sir Charles V. Penrose, on the 2d Nov. following; appointed to the Suberb 78, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Thomas M. Hardy, Aug. 30, 1819; promoted to the command of the Alacrity sloop, in South America, Mar. 5, 1821; and posted into the Creole frigate, on the same station, Aug. 26, 1822.

Captain Frederick Spencer’s next appointment was, Sept. 21, 1826, to the Talbot 28; in which ship he bore a conspicuous part at the battle of Navarin, and afterwards co-operated with the French forces employed in the Gulf of Lepanto. The following are extracts of an official letter from Captain Edmund Lyons, of the Blonde frigate, to Sir Edward Codrington’s successor, dated off Patras, Oct. 14, 1828:

“Captain Spencer’s letter, by the Echo, will have informed you of the capitulation of Patras.

“I have now the honor of sending you the terms; in defiance of which five Agas, with (it is believed) 1200 or 1500 troops, have thrown themselves into the Morea Castle, and refuse to surrender, unless a written order to do so be produced from Ibrahim Pacha of Egypt, or Ibrahim Pacha of Lepanto.

“Under these circumstances, General Schneider has resolved on commencing offensive operations against the castle. * * * * *

“I have promised to approach the fort, on the 19th instant, as near as the wind and other circumstances will admit; under the hope, that the dread of a naval attack may have the same effect that it undoubtedly had 