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 the artillery brought forward with the necessary ammunition and stores, and placed in battery in a situation to be served against the enemy at the moment in which he signified his wish to open a negociation.”

Previous to his return to England, Captain Ballard visited Antigua, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Tobago, Trinidad, Dominica, St. Kitts, Tortola, and St. Thomas’s. He sailed from the latter island with the homeward-bound trade early in August, and arrived at Spithead Sept. 25, 1810. After docking and refitting the Sceptre, he was placed under the orders of Lord Gambier, and by him occasionally entrusted with the command of a detached squadron employed in watching the enemy’s ships in Brest harbour and Basque Roads. Some time in 1812, he received official notice of his being appointed to superintend the payment of the ships at Spithead; but as he did not choose to be superseded at sea, while blockading an enemy, he remained in the Sceptre, on Channel service, till she was ordered to return to port, in Jan. 1813. He became a Rear-Admiral, June 4, 1814. Our officer married, first, his cousin, Maria, only daughter of James Flint, of Faversham, in Kent, Esq., arid by her had eight children, three of whom, a son and two daughters, are now living; secondly, Catharine, daughter of the late, and sister to the present Sir Thomas Crawley Boevey, Bart., of Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester.

Residence.– Coates Hall, in Yorkshire, left him by his uncle, Colonel Flint; and 34, Park Street, Bath.  . (Note at p. 694.) The Ponsborn was lost in consequence of her not removing to a greater distance from the shore. The person who had charge of her at the time, was cautioned of the danger of remaining so near the land, by Captain Wood of the Favorite, but obstinately persisted in continuing there. On looking over the list of armed vessels captured by Captain Otway during the late wars, we find that they carried 1000 guns; but that instead of the whole being taken in the West Indies, some of them fell into his hands on other stations.  , (p. 717.) Superintended the debarkation of the first division of the army employed in the reduction of Guadaloupe, and commanded a detachment of seamen on shore during the whole of the operations. In the general orders issued by Sir George Beckwith, the military Commander-in-Chief, immediately after the surrender of the island, his services on that occasion are thus noticed:–

“The Commander of the forces is equally anxious to convey to Commodore Fahie, to Captains Dilkes and Dowers, of the Royal Navy, and to the other officers and seamen serving under their orders, to windward, the high sense he entertains of the important services rendered by them, not only at the landing of the first division of the army under the command of Major-General Hislop, and of the reserve, with a considerable proportion of provisions and stores, but for similar exertions at Three Rivers, in disembarking five days’ provisions for the troops, without which they could