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 brought away a formidable praam, under Buonaparte’s immediate inspection; in this brilliant little affair, for which his captain was afterwards made a C.B., he commanded the whole of the main-deck battery, the junior lieutenant being absent in boats after smugglers: – lastly, in April, 1812, to be first of the Tenedos 38, Captain Hyde Parker, under whom he was most actively employed on the North American station; where his health became so much impaired, by the severity of the climate, that:, was obliged to invalid in April, 1814. On his arrival in England he found himself promoted to the command of the Rover sloop, by commission, dated June 7th, 1814. Unfortunately, he had not then sufficiently recovered to avail himself of this desirable appointment; and all his subsequent efforts to obtain employment have proved ineffectual.

This officer married, in 1815, the only child of the Rev. Benjamin Spencer, LL.D., who was fifty-two years vicar of Aston, near Birmingham; forty-four years rector of Walton, in Lincolnshire; and forty-two years a magistrate for the counties of Warwick and Stafford, in which capacity he rendered essential service to Government during the great Birmingham riots.

Commander Pickard has several children. His only brother married the sister of William Fletcher, Esq. a barrister of some eminence on the Midland Circuit: his only sister married an attorney, settled for some years at Walsall, co. Stafford. Mrs. Pickard had two brothers, one of whom held the living of Smithwick, in the same county; the other, a lieutenant of marines, was killed on board the Edgar 74, at the battle of Copenhagen, in April, 1801. 



son of the Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, bart., by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Alderman Sir John Durbin, knt., an eminent merchant of Bristol.

This officer’s first commission bears date Mar. 6th, 1807;