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home from Jamaica in the Ajax 74, Captain Nicholas Charrington; and subsequently served under Captains Lambert Brabazon, Thomas Byam Martin, Robert Hall, and George Gregory; Lieutenant George Clarke Searle; Captain Robert Linzee, and Lieutenant Henry Gunter; in the Porcupine 24, Pylades, and Serpent sloops. Liberty brig, Saturn 74, and Pilote cutter ; on the Channel, West India, and Irish stations. At ihe commencement of the French revolutionary war, he successively joined the Alcide 74, Commodore R. Linzee; the Windsor Castle 98, bearing the flag of the same officer as a Rear-Admiral; and the Britannia first rate, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Hotham. He removed from la Censeur into the Cyclops 28, Captain William Hotham, and in that frigate visited the Archipelago. 



the 14th Dec. 1831, this most respectable officer addressed the following letter to the Lord Mayor of London:

“My Lord, – I beg to apologise for a trespass on your Lordship’s time, but I rely with confidence on your Lordship’s indulgence, when I state that my only object is that those who apply and exert their minds for the benefit of the public, should enjoy that creditable reward which is most justly their due, and which they are at all times sure of receiving from the chief magistrate of the city of London.

“Having just read in the Albion newspaper, of the 12th instant, a statement of a Mr. Steevens having presented to your Lordship a model of paddles to he used, instead of wheels, by steam-vessels, it becomes my duty, in justice to my son, Captain Henry Ommanney Love, of H.M.S. Columbine, now on the Jamaica station, to inform your Lordship, that I have every reason to believe, that the invention and application of paddles to steam-vessels rests entirely with him, and was submitted to persons of