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572 with the Spanish authorities for a suspension of hostilities, till the official accounts of the late political changes in Europe could be received from the junta in the mother country.

In the summer of 1809, Captain Lee, who had returned to England with Commodore Moore, assisted at the occupation of the island of Walcheren, by the forces under Sir Richard J. Strachan and the Earl of Chatham, and from that period was stationed in the North Sea until 1812; when the Monarch being found unfit for further service, was put out of commission at Chatham. Captain Lee was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral on the 12th Aug. in the same year; nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815; and on the 31st May following, obtained the royal authority to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, which had been conferred upon him by the Prince Regent of that kingdom, in testimony of the high sense H.R.H. entertained of his great merit, and of the services rendered by him to the House of Braganza.

Sir Richard Lee’s commission as Vice-Admiral, bears date July 19,1821.

Residence.– Walmer, Kent.





officer is the second son of the late Sir John Halkett, Bart. , of Pitferran, N.B. by Mary, daughter of the Hon.