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32 been in Hamoaze, immediately after a smart gale from the south-west. The pleasure of seeing so great a public work in such a rapid state of progress, must have been greatly increased (as his Lordship confessed was the case), both by the reflection, that he himself was the projector of so great a national benefit, and the conviction that it answered his most sanguine expectations.

On the 19th July, 1821, the day of his present Majesty’s coronation, Earl St. Vincent was elevated to the rank of an Admiral of the Fleet. His Lordship had been senior Admiral of the Red, for more than five years previous to that event.

A portrait, by Hoppner, representing this venerable commander in a naval uniform, on the quarter-deck of a man-of-war, being an admirable likeness of him in his old age, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1809. A bust by Chantrey, was exhibited at the same time.

Earl St. Vincent married, June 6, 1783, his cousin Martha, daughter of Chief Baron Parker, before-mentioned. By that lady, who died Feb. 8, 1816, and to whose memory he has erected a beautiful monument in Caverswall Church, Staffordshire, he had no issue. His Lordship’s nephew, Edward Jervis Ricketts, Esq., Barrister at Law, is heir presumptive to the Viscounty of St. Vincent.

Residence.– Rochetts, Essex. 