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338 property. The generous Captains, immediately on hearing it, repaired to that place, where yielding to the full and noble gratification of love and friendship, they settled an annuity on the father, and married his daughters.”

We know nothing more of the early services of the subject of this sketch, than that he served under his father during the war with our trans-atlantic colonies, at the conclusion of which we find him commanding the Porcupine sloop, at Jamaica. His commission as a Post-Captain bears date Feb. 3, 1789, and in the following year he commanded the Pegasus of 28 guns, on the Newfoundland station. At the commencement of the contest with France, in 1793, he commissioned the Amphion frigate, from which ship he removed about the year 1795, into the Nassau of 64 guns, and cruized in her on the coast of Ireland, and with the North Sea fleet, until the autumn of 1797? when he was appointed to the Saturn, 74, attached to the Western squadron. In the spring of 1799, he succeeded Sir Henry Trollope in the command of the Russell, also a third rate, and continued in that ship till the beginning of 1801, when he joined the Juste, of, 80 guns, and accompanied Sir Robert Calder to the West Indies, in pursuit of a French squadron that had escaped from Brest, but which instead of crossing the Atlantic had proceeded up the Mediterranean.

Subsequent to his return to England, Captain Sawyer was appointed to superintend the payments of the ships at Plymouth, where he remained until advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Oct. 2, 1807. About the month of May, 1810, he hoisted his flag as second in command at Portsmouth; and towards the latter end of that year proceeded in the Africa of 64 guns, to the Halifax station, where he assumed the chief command. He had previously been promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral.

When about to leave the coast of Nova Scotia, in 1813, our officer was presented with the following address from the colonists:–

“Sir.– His Majesty’s consul, the merchants and other inhabitants of Halifax, cannot allow you to depart from Nova Scotia, without expressing the satisfaction they have 