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 actively employed under the immortal Nelson, during a most important part of his Lordship’s command on that station. In the summer of 1805, Captain Boyle exchanged into the Amphitrite, a Spanish prize frigate, and returned to England. His last appointment afloat was May 31, 1806, to the Royal William, bearing the flag of the Port Admiral at Spithead, the command of which ship he retained until the month of June, 1809, when he succeeded the late Captain Towry as a Commissioner of Transports. The controul of the dock-yard at Sheerness was confided to him in the summer of 1814; and some time after he was appointed, by an order in council, to superintend the bringing up of the arrears of the accounts left unaudited by the Transport Board at the time of its dissolution. He has recently obtained a seat at the Navy Board.

Commissioner Boyle married, in 1J99, Caroline Amelia, daughter of the late William Poyntz, of Midgham House, co. Berks, Esq. His son is a Lieutenant R.N.



 officer, a brother of Vice-Admiral Thomas Wolley, was educated at the celebrated maritime school formerly established at Chelsea, and which furnished the navy with many excellent officers. At the commencement of the French war in 1793, we find him holding the rank of Lieutenant, and commanding a large ship in the West India trade. He subsequently joined the Santa Margaritta frigate, commanded by the present Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, with whom he served on shore at the reduction of Martinique by the naval and military forces under Sir John Jervis and Sir Charles Grey.

