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Rh including her Commander, wounded. Our officer was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, April 28, 1808, and.soon after hoisted his flag as second in command at Portsmouth. He subsequently served under Sir Charles Cotton, off the Tagus, and was present at the surrender of the Russian Admiral Seniavin, Sept. 3, 1808, the first division of whose fleet he escorted from Lisbon to Spithead, where they arrived on the 6th of the following month.

In the autumn of 1812, Rear-Admiral Tyler was appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope, where he continued until relieved by Sir George Cockburn, in 1815. On the 2d Jan. in the latter year, he was nominated a K.C.B. Sir Charles has been twice married; first to Miss Pike, of Portsmouth; and secondly to Miss Leach, of Pembroke, South Wales. His son, George, has recently been promoted to the rank of Post-Captain.



 the latter end of the American war we find this officer commanding the Jamaica sloop, at the island of that name; and in 1783, the Tobago, a vessel of similar description, on the same station. He was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, Nov. 22, 1790; and at the commencement of the contest with revolutionary France, appointed to the Porcupine of 24 guns, in which ship he cruized for some time on the coast of Ireland; and afterwards obtained the command of l’Espion, a fine frigate, employed in channel service during a period of about two years.

Captain Dixon’s next appointment was to the Lion, a 64-gun ship, in which he proceeded to the Mediterranean; and on the 15th July, 1798, being off Carthagena, on his way to the coast of Egypt to reinforce Sir Horatio Nelson’s squadron, he fell in with four large Spanish frigates. At the time the enemy were first discovered, the Lion was steering east, under a press of sail. Captain Dixon instantly resolved to bring them to action in the closest manner possible, and 