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 leaving issue six sons and five daughters. His eldest son is now serving as a Midshipman on board the Revenge 78, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Neale, in the Mediterranean.

Captain Austen has two brothers living; one, a clergyman, took the sirname of Knight, on succeeding to considerable property in Kent and Hampshire. The other is a Post-Captain of 1810. Another brother (deceased) was in holy orders.

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 officer is the second son of the late Baker John Littlehales, of Moulsey House, Surrey, Esq., a Barrister at Law, by Maria, daughter and sole heiress of Bendall Martyn, Esq. His elder brother, Edward, formerly a Lieutenant -Colonel in the army, was created a Baronet of Great Britain, as a reward for various important services in Ireland, Sept. 2, 1802; and obtained the Royal permission to assume the surname of Baker only, Jan. 6, 1817.

He entered the naval service at an early age, as a Midshipman, on board the Vigilant 64, under the protection and command of Captain (afterwards Sir Robert) Kingsmill; and at a period (early in 1778) when the insidious conduct of France caused this country, already engaged in a war with her American colonies, to make preparations for a long, severe, and bloody contest with her ancient European rivals.

The Vigilant had 2 men killed and 3 wounded in the action between Keppel and d’Orvilliers. At the conclusion of the same year, she was ordered to the West Indies, where Mr. Littlehales removed into the Royal Oak 74; which ship formed part of Vice-Admiral Byron’s fleet, and sustained a loss of 4 men slain and 12 wounded, in the battle off Grenada, July 6, 1779. From that date he was almost constantly employed in different ships and on various stations, till his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, in Sept. 1790; soon