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 On the 11th Jan. 1808, Lieutenant Rowe obtained a pension for his wounds, the present amount of which is 200l. per annum; and when sufficiently recovered he was ordered out to the Leeward Islands on promotion. He accordingly proceeded thither in the Rosamond sloop, Captain Benjamin Walker; and after serving for a short time in the Abercrombie 74, Captain (now Sir William Charles) Fahie, was advanced by Sir Alexander Cochrane to the command of the St. Christopher sloop, an appointment which appears to have been confirmed by the Admiralty, May 2d, 1810. After the reduction of Guadaloupe, he was removed to the Asp sloop, and sent home with despatches; since which he has not held any appointment.

In 1819, Commander Rowe published a poetical work, entitled “Sacred Beauties;” and he is now, we understand, employing his leisure hours on another, to be entitled “The Intellectual Globe,” and addressed to William Lawrence, Esq. Professor of Anatomy, author of “The Natural History of Man.”

This officer married Joanna, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Crew, and allied to a very respectable family in Cheshire, by which lady he has issue two sons and five daughters. His elder brother, John, died of yellow fever, in the West Indies, while serving as midshipman on board the Severn 44, Captain John Whitby. 



a lieutenant’s commission in 1797; and commanded the Whiting schooner, fitted for throwing rockets, at the attack made upon the French squadron in the road of Isle d’Aix, April 11th, 1809. He was advanced to his present rank on the 3d May, 1810. 



his first commission in 1794; and served as a lieutenant of the Defence 74, Captain John Peyton, at the