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of the late Mr. Smith, carpenter in the royal navy. This officer obtained his first commission on the 24th Aug. 1807; and was senior lieutenant of the Eurotas 38, Captain (now Sir John) Phillimore, in the severe action between that ship and la Clorinde French frigate, Feb. 25th, 1814. He was advanced to his present rank on the 4th of the following month.

Commander Smith married, June 26th, 1818, Miss Seeds, daughter of a medical practitioner. 



made a lieutenant on the 22d Jan. 1806; promoted from the Tenedos frigate, Captain Hyde Parker, to the command of the Indian sloop. Mar. 9th, 1814; and appointed an inspecting commander in the coast guard, Dec. 31st, 1820. 



the rank of lieutenant on the 12th Aug. 1801; and commanded the Protector gun-brig, at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, in Jan. 1806. His next appointment was. Mar. 19th, 1808, to the Redbreast, a similar vessel, on the North Sea station. In 1813, and the beginning of 1814, we find him very actively employed under the orders of Captains John M‘Kerlie and Arthur Farquhar; particularly at the sieges of Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt. His commission as commander bears date Mar. 16th, 1814; on which day he was re-appointed to the Redbreast, then rated a sloop of war.

