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 assistance could arrive; and it is added, that from their uncommon dexterity as swimmers, they would most probably have succeeded. By the same account we learn that the jolly-boat, with 2 men, broke adrift, and was supposed to have been lost among the rocks, and that 96 officers and men were taken prisoners; among the former were 2 Lieutenants, who had been sent on shore to solicit assistance from the enemy, and to request the French commandant to cease firing, but which he inhumanly refused, notwithstanding a flag of truce and the signal of distress had previously been displayed.

Captain Rowley was tried by a court-martial, and acquitted of all blame on account of the loss of his ship, Feb. 19, 1812. In 1815, he commanded the Impregnable of 104 guns, bearing the flag of his brother, on the Mediterranean station 5 and he has subsequently served as flag Captain to the same officer on the coast of Ireland. He married, Sept. 16, 1805, Miss Thompson, of Cork; and received the freedom of that city in a silver box, in 1819. His lady died about June 1821.

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

 officer is related to the London banker of the same name; and a protege of the late Earl St. Vincent. He commanded the Crash gun-brig during Sir Home Popham’s expedition against Ostend in May, 1798; and was captured by the enemy on the coast of Holland, Aug. 26, in the same year. His commission as Commander is dated April 21, 1799; and that of Post-Captain April 29, 1802. During the late war he held an appointment in the Sea Fencible service.



 officer was made a Lieutenant, May 30, 1782; and obtained the rank of Commander, April 29, 1799. In the spring of 1801 we find him proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope, in the Hindostan, a 54-gun ship armed en flute; and