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 division of flotilla, proceeding through the Passage du Raz. In July, 1807, the Growler, then attached to the blockading squadron in the Pertuis Breton, assisted at the capture and destruction of two armed chassé marées and twenty other coasting vessels.

Lieutenant Rose subsequently commanded the Crown prison-ship, in Portsmouth harbour, and the Hearty gun-brig, on the Heligoland station; where he was serving when promoted to his present rank, Oct. 7th, 1813. The operations in which he was principally engaged, whilst thus employed, have been detailed in our memoirs of Captains John M‘Kerlie, John Marshall, Arthur Farquhar, &c. The Order of the Sword was conferred upon him for his conduct at the siege of Gluckstadt. Mrs. Rose, to whom he was married when only a midshipman, died in Jan. 1810. 



April, 1798, this officer, then commanding the Garland, tender to the flag-ship of the commander-in-chief at the Leeward Islands, captured, near Dominica, the French privateer la Jeune Nantaise, of 4 guns and 39 men. His first commission bears date Nov. 24th, 1798. We next find him commanding the Blazer gun-brig, on the Heligoland station, where he captured several Danish privateers and merchant vessels, in the year 1809. The following are copies of two official letters addressed by him to John Wilson Croker, Esq. dated off Cuxhaven, Mar. 16th and 17th, 1813:

“Sir,– I beg to inform you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that, from the intelligence communicated to me by the Lieut.-Governor of Heligoland, and what I otherwise learned by the arrival of vessels from the continent, of the distressed state of the French forces at Cuxhaven, and of the entrance of a Russian army into Hamburgh, I judged it expedient to take the Brevdrageren under my orders, and proceeded to the river Elbe, which I entered early this morning (16th)