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a lieutenant’s commission in 1782, and his present rank in April, 1802. 



a midshipman on board the Royal George when she sunk at Spithead, in 1782; and appears to have been promoted soon after that disaster. He commanded the Kite cutter during the Russian armament, and at the commencement of the French revolutionary war; and obtained his present rank in April, 1802. 



made a lieutenant in 1790, and commander on the 29th April, 1802. 



his first commission in 1791, and was senior lieutenant of the Argo 44, Captain (now Rear Admiral) James Bowen, at the reduction of Minorca, in Nov. 1798; and at the capture of the Spanish frigate Santa Teresa, off Majorca, in the night of Feb. 8th, 1799. The following is an extract of the official letter written by his captain on the latter occasion: –

This officer was made a commander on the 29th April, 1802.

