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made a lieutenant in 1791; and served as first of the Malta 80, Captain Benjamin Hallowell (now Sir B. H. Carew), in the expedition against Alexandria (Egypt), 1807. He subsequently commanded a sloop on the Mediterranean station; and died Mar. 30th, 1823. 



a commissioned officer on the 20th Feb. 1805, and was promoted to the command of the Dart sloop, in the West Indies, Feb. 9th, 1808. Early in 1810, being then on the same station, he had the misfortune to lose the Achates of 18 guns. 



made a lieutenant in 1799; appointed acting commander of the Favorite sloop, on the African station, in July 1807; and promoted to his present rank, Feb. 22d, 1808, In the beginning of May 1812, he lost the Apelles sloop, that vessel, then under his command, having unfortunately run on shore to the westward of Boulogne, where himself and nineteen of his people were obliged to surrender as prisoners of war; the remainder of his officers and crew effected their escape, and the Apelles was very soon afterwards recaptured by the Bermuda sloop. Captain Alexander Cunningham. 



made a lieutenant in 1802, and promoted to his present rank on the 1st April, 1808, previous to which he had commanded the Sandwich schooner. In the following year, he assisted at the reduction of the city of St. Domingo, as will be seen by the following official extract:

