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 in the surrender of Patras. * * * * * * This letter will be delivered to you by Captain Spencer, who is perfectly informed on all the subjects which I have mentioned.

“I have only to add, that I hope, throughout this service, to preserve that good understanding, and hearty co-operation, with the officers of His Most Christian Majesty, which has so auspiciously commenced under Captain Spencer’s firm, though conciliatory, management.”

The manner in which the Turco-Egyptians were expelled from their last strong hold in the Peloponnesus, has been officially related. The companionship of the Bath, the cross of St. Louis, and the order of St. Anne, were conferred upon Captain Spencer immediately after the conflict at Navarin; on which occasion the Talbot had 6 men killed and 17 wounded

Captain Spencer married, Feb. 23, 1830, the second daughter of W. S. Poyntz, of Cowdrey Park, co. Sussex, Esq.



 made lieutenant, Sept. 5, 1816; appointed to the Leander 60, refitting at Portsmouth, for the flag of Sir David Milne, Oct. 7, 1816; promoted from the Vigo 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Lambert, to the command of the Beaver brig, on the St. Helena station, July 7, 1821; sent from thence to South America, in September following; and there posted into the Blossom 26, on the 9th Sept. 1822,

Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co. 

 made lieutenant, Aug. 20, 1806; and commanded the boats of the Melpomene frigate. Captain (afterwards Sir Peter) Parker, at the destruction of a Danish national cutter, and some merchant vessels, on the coast of Jutland, under a very heavy fire, by which six of his party were severely