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 Growler, mounting one long 24-pounder and four eighteens, with a complement of sixty men. Since the peace he has been employed in the Ordinary at Sheerness. 



made a lieutenant in May, 1804, and promoted to the command of the Racehorse sloop, on the Cape of Good Hope station, April 18th, 1811. On the 20th of the following month, he witnessed the capture of la Renommée, French frigate, near Madagascar; and on the 24th, assisted in taking possession of her late consort, la Néréide, together with several merchant vessels, in the port of Tamatavé. He died in the year 1828. 



a native of Fifeshire, and appears to have served his time as an apprentice in the merchant service. In July 1794, having fallen into the hands of a press-gang, he entered as an able seaman on board the Sybil 28, Captain the Hon. Charles Jones, by whom he was rated master’s-mate of the Doris frigate in Oct. 1795. Subsequent to the demise of that officer, we find him serving in the latter ship, under Captains John Halliday and Charles Brisbane, until advanced to the rank of lieutenant for his gallant conduct at the attack and capture of la Chevrette, French national corvette, in Camaret bay, near Brest, July 22d, 1801. To the account already given of this brilliant enterprise, we have now to add, that, although knocked overboard when mounting her side, he was the first person who gained the enemy’s deck; and that he there received several slight wounds, of which no mention was made in the surgeon’s report. On receiving his first commission from Admiral Cornwallis, that veteran