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 the Baltic fleet, under Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez) until his promotion to the rank of commander, June 2, 1812.

Captain Reid’s subsequent appointments and stations were, Sept. 11, 1812, to the Fervent brig, of 12 guns, Channel and Baltic; June 17, 1814, to the Calypso 18, Western Islands and Mediterranean; early in 1816, pro tempore, to the Trident 64, guard-ship at Malta, where being for some time the senior officer, he conducted the various duties of the port, and likewise those of the naval arsenal during the temporary absence of Commissioner Joseph Larcom; Dec. 12, 1817, to the Driver sloop, on the coast of Scotland; and, lastly. Sept; 3, 1818, to the same ship and station, where he had the command of all the small cruisers under the orders of Sir William Johnstone Hope and his successor, Rear-Admiral (now Sir Robert Waller) Otway.

The Driver was paid off at Portsmouth, in Oct. 1821; and Captain Reid promoted to post rank, Dec. 26, 1822. His eldest son was educated at the Royal Naval College, and is now a midshipman of the Pearl sloop, on the Irish station.

Agents.– Messrs. Maude & Co. 

 related to Rear-Admiral Isaac Smith, and to Mrs. Cook, of Merton Abbey, Surrey, widow of the great circumnavigator.

This officer made his way to the rank he now enjoys, from a very humble station in the navy, entirely by his own conduct. He was left an orphan when extremely young. His mother died before he was sensible of the loss; and his father, who was a younger son of a numerous family, became insane, while he was yet at a country boarding school. Although in that unhappy state, his surviving parent was permitted to remain without any controul whatever, until he had squandered and made away with what property he had, till at last his relations found it absolutely necessary to confine him in a private lunatic asylum, where he breathed his last, leaving his children totally unprovided for.

