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746 mainmasts; but, by great exertions, she was taken safe into the port of Lissa under jury-masts. Her mizen-mast fell a few minutes before she struck.

Towards the close of the year 1812, we find Captain Talbot, to whom the Board of Admiralty had presented a gold medal, for his gallant conduct in capturing the Rivoli, proceeding with Sir John B. Warren to the coast of North America, on which station he continued in the Victorious during the remainder of the war. He obtained a Colonelcy of Royal Marines, June 4, 1814; and was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815. His advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place Aug. 12, 1819.

Sir John Talbot married, Oct, 17, 1815, Juliana, youngest daughter of James Everard, 9th Lord Arundel, and a Count of the Sacred Roman Empire, by Mary Christiana, eldest daughter of his first cousin, the 8th Lord.



 officer is the eldest son of the late John Delap Halliday, of Castlemains, in the Stewartry of Kircudbright, N.B., and of the Leasowes, in Shropshire, Esq., by Lady Jane Tollemache, daughter of Lionel, third Earl of Dysart, whose ancestors were settled at Bentley, in Suffolk, previous to the Norman Conquest.

