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 side, he is descended from Colonel John Tomlinson, of Burntcliffe Thorn, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, who bore a conspicuous part in the civil wars, during the reign of Charles I.

Mr. Tomlinson’s earliest patrons were the late Earl of Carhampton and Captain (afterwards Lord) Hotham, with the latter of whom he first went to sea, about 1772, in the Resolution 74, of which ship his father was, at that time, senior Lieutenant. He subsequently served as a Midshipman on board the Thetis frigate and Charon of 44 guns, on the American and West India stations.

In 1779, Mr. Tomlinson acted as aid-de-camp to the Hon. Captain Luttrell, at the siege of St. Fernando de Omoa, and was one of those who scaled the walls of that fortress ; he also assisted at the capture of le Compte d’Artois French privateer, of 64 guns and 644 men, Aug. 13, 1780. Early in 1781 we find him commanding a gun-boat, and accompanying Brigadier-General Arnold on an expedition up the rivers of Virginia. Whilst thus employed, he was almost daily engaged with the enemy, and frequently two or three times in the same day, for upwards of two months.

The Charon was burnt by hot shot from the enemy’s 