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 frigate, June 18, 1793. He afterwards commanded the Otter fire-ship. During the late contest with France he was principally employed as an agent for prisoners of war.

Captain Pellowe married, Sept. 7, 1805, Miss Sparg, of Penryn, in Cornwall. That lady died April 29, 1812.



 officer is a son of the late James Dick, Esq. who passed his life in the civil department of the navy, and a cousin of Colonel Sir William Dick, Bart., representative of the ancient family of that name, long settled at Braid, in Mid-Lothian, N.B.

He is a native of Rochester, and entered the naval service under the patronage of Sir Andrew Snape Hamond in 1789. His time as a Midshipman was completed under the respective commands of that excellent officer, and Captains John Drew, Francis Laforey, and Andrew Snape Douglas. In 1795 he obtained the rank of Lieutenant in the Victorious of 74 guns; and he subsequently served as such in l’Aimable frigate and the Majestic 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Laforey, in the West Indies. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place in 1796, and on that occasion he was appointed to the Bull Dog sloop of war, in which vessel he returned to England at the period when our seamen were unhappily engaged in acts of open treason, the expected disastrous effects of which were prevented by the exertions of himself and those of his brother officers selected to direct the operations of a flotilla equipped for the express purpose of reducing the mutineers at the Nore to obedience.

Captain Dick was soon after appointed to the Discovery bomb, on the North Sea station. In 1799, he accompanied the expedition sent against the Helder, covered the landing of the troops, and served on shore with the army till the final evacuation of Holland. Early in 1800 he removed into the Cynthia of 18 guns, and proceeded to the Mediterranean, where he was most actively employed during the remainder