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  Captain Coffin’s post commission bears date April 29, 1802. He had previously commanded the Sphynx sloop of war, on the Cape station; and held an appointment in the Sea Fencible service. During the late war he was appointed to command a portion of the same corps at Tralee, in Ireland; and after its dissolution we find him serving in the Arethusa frigate, on the Jamaica station.

Agents.– Messrs. Maude. 

 officer is descended from a noble German family. He obtained post rank April 29, 1802; and married, about the same period, a daughter of the Rev. Peter Hawker, Rector of Woodchester, and of Hampnett, co. Gloucester.



 officer was made a Lieutenant in 1789: his post commission bears date April 29, 1802.



 officer is a son of the late Christopher Nesham, Esq., who served as Aid-de-camp to Colonel Monson, at the capture of Manilla, in 1762, by Mary Williams, sister of the present Admiral Freeman, and a relative of the late Lord North.

He was born in 1771; entered the naval service under the patronage of his maternal uncle in 1782; and served as a 