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 Committee of the Shipwreck Institution, a card of instructions for the use of Captain Manby’s apparatus, together with a code of night signals to be used at the various stations where it is placed. These were perfectly approved of, and readily adopted, as appears by a letter from Thomas Edwards, Esq. secretary to the society, expressing their best thanks for the same.

On the 30th April, 1827, Commander Astley was appointed to the Herald yacht, and about the same period he received a letter from the present Comptroller-General of the Coast-Guard, of which the following is an extract:–

“I take this opportunity, with very great pleasure, of expressing, in the strongest terms, my entire approbation of your conduct on all occasions, during the period which you have served with me in this department; and I consider myself under very great obligations to you, for the assistance I have uniformly received from you, and for the zeal, assiduity, and ability, for which you have always been remarkable. I am, my dear Sir, very sincerely yours,

(Signed)“William Bowles.”

After his appointment to the Herald, Commander Astley was first employed in conveying his friend S. R. Lushington, Esq. to Madras, for the purpose of assuming the government of that presidency. He returned home from India, with Earl Amherst and his suite passengers, July 22d, 1828; sailed for the islands of Barbadoes and Jamaica with their newly appointed governors, Major-General Sir James Lyon and the Earl of Belmore, on board, Jan. 3d, 1829; and was again in England on the 3d of April following. His promotion to the rank of captain took place April 7th, 1829; and he received the honor of knighthood Oct. 27th, 1830. Lady Astley, to whom he was united in June, 1829, is the daughter of James Pitman, of Dunchideock House, near Exeter, Esq.

Agent.– J. Copland, Esq. 

 a midshipman of the Leander 50, Captain (now Sir John) Talbot, at the capture of la Ville de Milan French