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 him with a gold snuff box, having the initials M.T. set in diamonds on the lid.

At the commencement of 1816, the flag of Sir Charles V. Penrose was hoisted on board the Bombay; and Captain Bazely afterwards proceeded with the squadron under Lord Exmouth to Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers, for the purpose of obtaining the liberation of those Europeans who were then in the power of the Barbary States. His Lordship, on this occasion, succeeded in releasing 1792 persons from their chains.

Previous to Captain Bazely’s return from the Mediterranean, he received the Grand Cross of the order of St. Maurice, and St. Lazarus; and was presented with a miniature of the King and Queen of Sardinia. The Bombay was paid off at Portsmouth in July 1816.

Captain Bazely married, first, in 1796, Miss Stringer of Canterbury, Kent; second, Miss Ruddle, of Queen’s Square, Bloomsbury, London. He has six children living.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son. 

 ''A Companion of the most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; and a Knight of the Royal Orders of Charles III. of Spain; St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, of Sardinia; and Wilhelm of the Netherlands.''

officer is a son of Francis Brace, of Stagbatch, co. Hereford, Esq. He entered the navy when extremely young, about the year 1781; and after visiting the West Indies, where he served under Captains Macbride and Pakenham, proceeded with Commodore Cornwallis, in the Crown of 64 guns, to the East India station; from whence he returned as a Lieutenant of the Ariel sloop, in the autumn of 1792, after an absence of nearly four years.

On the 13th May, 1793, the Iris, a 32-gun frigate, to which Mr. Brace had previously been appointed, fell in with, and engaged a French ship of superior force; but owing to the loss of her fore and mizen-lower-masts, and main-top-mast, had the mortification to see the enemy escape. The Iris on this occasion had 5 men killed and about 30 wounded.

