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  Dec. 6, 1796; superannuated Aug. 24, 1819; resides at Bradninch, near Columpton, in Devonshire.



 officer, the second son of the late Rev. John Bullen, Rector of Kennet, in Cambridgeshire, and of Rushmoor-cumNewburn, co. Suffolk, entered the navy in 1774, under the patronage of the late Hon. Sir William Cornwallis, and served with that admirable officer during the greater part of the American war. He was with him in the Isis at the reduction of Mud fort, and in the Lion, in the action between Byron and d’Estaing.

On the glorious 12th April, 1782, when Rodney defeated de Grasse, we find Mr. Bullen serving as a Lieutenant on board the Prince George of 98 guns, commanded by the late Captain John Williams, and not by the present Admiral Freeman, as stated in our first volume. The Prince on that occasion was next astern of the Princessa, which ship carried the flag of Rear-Admiral Drake, and led the fleet into action. Lieutenant Bullen subsequently served with the late Lord Nelson, in the Hinchinbrooke frigate, on the Mosquito shore; where the mortality was so great, owing to the unhealthiness of the climate, that at the end of six weeks, only 27 officers and men were surviving, out of a complement of 235.

