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92 suspension of hostilities at the latter end of the year enabled him to return to England. During his absence he was raised to the dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain, by patent, dated Sept. 12, 1801.

At the general election, in the following year, Sir Charles M. Pole was chosen representative in Parliament for the borough of Newark-upon-Trent; and soon after nominated Chairman of the Board appointed to inquire into the abuses in the civil department of the Navy, and other branches of public expenditure, the duties of which office he continued to perform until the month of February 1806, when he was called to a seat at the Admiralty; from which he retired in October following, in consequence of the change in the administration which took place at that period.

The limits of this work will not admit of our entering at length into the parliamentary services of officers. We must therefore content ourselves with observing, that during the whole of his senatorial life, Sir Charles M. Pole has never omitted to embrace every opportunity of rendering service to the naval profession, whether as it related to the seamen and marines, or the officers generally; and that the conduct of himself and his colleagues in the commission of Naval Inquiry, was approved by a vote of the House of Commons, which was communicated to them by the Speaker in a most handsome manner. 