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 chief thus addressed him: – “Your country is much indebted to you for your gallant services s you are now a lieutenant of the Namur; – you well deserve your promotion; – few officers have earned it so hardly.”

The Namur 90, Captain the Hon. Michael De Courcy, was paid off in April, 1802; from which period Mr. Clephan continued on half-pay until Mar. 1803, when he was appointed to the Spartiate 74, Captain George Murray. In this ship he visited the West Indies, under the command of Sir Francis Laforey, at whose particular request he became her first lieutenant immediately after the battle of Trafalgar, and remained as such until she was put out of commission in Dec. 1809. His next appointment was, in Aug. 1810, to be first of the Dragon 74, fitting out for the flag of Sir Francis, by whom he was promoted to the command of the Charybdis sloop, on the Leeward Islands’ station, April 20th, 1811.

On the 31st Dec. 1812, Commander Clephan captured the American schooner privateer Blockade, of 10 guns and 66 men, near the island of Saba. The Charybdis was paid off at Deptford, in Aug. 1815; since which he has not been employed. 



the rank of lieutenant in May, 1801; commanded the Favorite hired armed cutter, in action with the Flushing flotilla. May 16th, 1804 ; and lost an arm, whilst gallantly defending the Plumper gun-brig, near Granville, July 16, 1805.

“On the 15th of July,” says Mr. James, “the gun-brgs Plumper and Teazer” (the latter commanded by Lieutenant George Lewis Kerr), “while cruising off the port of Granville, found themselves becalmed, and likely to be carried into danger by the strength of the tide. They therefore anchored near the island of Chausey, but, owing to the exigency of the moment, at too great a distance apart to benefit by any mutual support, in the event of being attacked before a breeze sprang up. The critical situation of these brigs being plainly seen from Granville, which was