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 and paid off, in October, 1822. His Admiralty commissions as Commander and Post-Captain bear date June 4th, 1821, and April 2d, 1823.

Captain Price Blackwood married, July 4th, 1825, Helen Selina, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Sheridan, Esq.

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

 son of John, first Earl of Stradbroke, by Charlotte Maria, daughter of Abraham Whittaker, Esq. and brother and heir presumptive to the present peer.

This officer was born Jan. 23, 1795. We first find him serving as midshipman under Captain (afterwards Sir William) Hoste, and assisting at the capture of la Tisiphone French national xebec, two gun-boats, seven transports laden with timber for the Venetian government, and two merchant vessels, by the boats of the Bacchante frigate, at Port Lema, on the coast of Istria, in the night of Aug. 31st, 1812. He also bore a part at the capture of the Corfu flotilla, Jan. 6th, 1813; as will be seen by reference to our memoir of Captain Donat Henchy O’Brien. On the 15th May following, he assisted at the capture and destruction of the castle and batteries of Karlebago, mounting two long 12-pounders, four nines, and two brass sixes ; and on the 12th June in the same year, he commanded the Bacchante’s yawl, under the orders of Lieutenant Silas Thomson Hood, in a most brilliant affair on the coast of Abruzzi, the result of which was the capture of seven large Neapolitan gun-vessels, each mounting a long 18-pounder in the bow, throe others armed with 4-pounders, and fourteen sail of merchantmen, from Ancona bound to Barletta, many of the latter lying aground under the town of Gala Nova, and 