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 , and on the following morning was received by the King with marked distinction and approbation, and honored with a long conference on the esplanade.

On the Medusa’s arrival at Chatham, she was ordered to be put out of commission; and Captain Inglefield soon after obtained the command of l’Aigle frigate, in which ship we find him serving at the reduction of Corsica, under the orders of Lord Hood, by whom he was appointed, conjointly with Vice-Admiral Goodall, Captain James Young, and his Lordship’s Secretary, Mr. M‘Arthur, to draw up the articles of the capitulation, by which Bastia was surrendered to the British arms.

In the spring of 1794, our officer was appointed to succeed the late Sir Hyde Parker, as Captain of the Mediterranean fleet; and towards the close of the same year, he returned to England with Lord Hood, in the Victory of 100 guns. From this period until the summer of 1811, he appears to have been employed as a resident Commissioner of the Navy, successively, at Corsica, Malta, Gibraltar, and Halifax. Preferring the retention of his civil appointment to a flag, he was placed on the retired list of Post-Captains in Feb. 1799. Captain Inglefield is the reputed author of “A View of the Naval Force of Great Britain,” published in 1791. His son, Samuel Hood Inglefield, obtained post rank in 1807, and his daughter is the lady of that excellent officer, Vice-Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell, K.C.B.

Agent.– William Marsh, Esq. 

 officer’s post commission bears date May 9, 1781. He resides at Tregrehan, near St. Austle, Cornwall.



 officer, the third son of the late Dennis George, of Clophook, in Ireland, Esq. and a brother of the late Baron George, of the Irish Court of Exchequer, was born at Dublin January 16, 1749; and during the colonial war commanded the Vulture sloop of war on the American station.

