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 Cooper Willyams, and it is from that gentleman’s publication that we make the following extract:–

Lieutenant Aylmer received the Turkish gold medal, at the close of the Egyptian campaign; and obtained the rank of Commander in 1802; previous to which he had acted as such in the Fury bomb, during the absence of Captain Richard Curry, whom we have already described as the bearer of Lord Keith’s dispatches relative to the surrender of Grand Cairo, June 26, 1801.

We subsequently find Captain Aylmer commanding in succession the Delight and Wasp, sloops of war; and in July, 1803, capturing a French privateer, on the Mediterranean station. From the latter vessel he was posted into the Glory, of 98 guns, bearing the flag of Sir John Orde; but he appears to have been soon afterwards superseded, in consequence of that second rate being required for the flag of Rear-Admiral Domett, who had selected an old shipmate to command her. His post commission bears date May 18, 1805.

After quitting the Glory, we lose sight of Captain Aylmer till July 1809, when he assumed the command of the Narcissus, a 32-gun frigate, employed on Channel service. Early in the following year he captured the French privateers Duguay Trouin, of 14 guns and 75 men; and Aimable Josephine, of 14 guns and 105 men. A merchant brig, which had been taken by the former, was also recaptured by him.

The result of an expedition, undertaken by the late Commodore Sir Robert Mends, in conjunction with the Spanish