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 Brevdrageren’s galley captured, near Brunsbuttel, on the Hanoverian side of the Elbe, two Danish gun-boats, each mounting two long 18-pounders and three 12-pounder carronades, with a complement of 25 men. This dashing service was performed by eighteen sailors, under the directions of Lieutenant Thomas B. Devon, commander of the Brevdrageren, and Mr. Dunbar, second master of the Blazer, at a distance of six leagues from the anchorage of those brigs.

On the 7th of Oct. following. Lieutenant Banks was promoted to his present rank, and ordered to retain the command of the Blazer, then rated a sloop of war. For his subsequent services, at the sieges of Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt, he was presented with the Orders of St. Anne and the Sword. 



gallant officer was a native of Lyme, co. Dorset; and appears to have commenced his nautical career in the merchant service. At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, he had the misfortune to be taken by the enemy; and we find him a prisoner on board the Jemmappe 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Richery, when that ship was beaten off by a Spanish 74, near the bay of Rosas, with the loss of several men killed and wounded.

The Jemmappe was then on her passage from Brest to Toulon, at which latter place Mr. Scriven was landed and marched off for Digne, where he endured very great hardships during a close confinement of about twenty months; At the end of that time, he was re-conducted to Toulon; from whence, having been exchanged, he proceeded first to Corsica; then to Leghorn hospital, to recruit his strength ; and finally joined the Agamemnon 64, commanded by the matchless Nelson, under whom he served, as a volunteer, for nearly twelve months.

