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 having anchored within gun-shot of the shore, sent the boats armed under Lieutenant Smith, with the marines, to command the surrounding heights: he found both vessels lying near the beach, within a reef of rocks, scuttled, full of water, and quite dismantled; the schooner on her beam-ends, with only her larboard gunwale above water. Lieutenant Smith cut away their lower-masts, and as the mistico was so situated that there was no possibility of her being got off again, he destroyed her to the water’s edge. From thence I returned to Kitries, and took the vessels under my charge for this port, whence I shall return to my former cruizing ground off Sapienza.

(Signed)“.”

On the 2d of July, Captain Irby was promoted to the command of the Ariadne 26, but he did not quit the Pelican till Sept. 27, 1827. In the meantime he had detained a schooner, the master of which acknowledged having taken some money from a Cephalonian vessel ; and brought out from Port Pagagna another piratical cruiser, which had plundered an Austrian merchantman. After the battle of Navarino, he was requested by Sir Edward Codrington to bring home the Genoa 74, the command of which ship he assumed on the 15th of Nov. 1827, and retained until she was paid off at Plymouth, Jan. 21, 1828.

Captain C. L. Irby married Frances, daughter of John Mangles, of Hurley, co. Berks, Esq.

Agents.– Messrs. Goode and Clarke. 

 his examination, at Plymouth, in Mar. 1813; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, in the Dragon 74, Captain Robert Barrie, on the North American station, Nov. 13th following. His subsequent appointments were, – Aug. 30, 1815, to the Madagascar 38, Captain Francis Stanfell; – Oct. 31st, in the same year, to the Phäeton frigate, commanded by the same officer; – Jan. 7, 1818, to the Blossom 26, Captain Frederick Hickey; – Feb. 9, 1821, to the Niemen, Captain E. R. Sibly; – and, July 19, 1822, to the command of the Doterel 18, on the Halifax station. His commission as Captain bears date July 7, 1827.

