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  the larger one to follow him, and lost no time in boarding the enemy’s vessel, which he succeeded in getting afloat, although greatly annoyed by musketry from the shore. She proved to be the Impregnable of fourteen guns, two of which were long 9-pounders, and, as appeared by her log, she had on board, during the engagement, about sixty men. This vessel had been particularly successful during her former cruises, and was one of the greatest pests that infested the British coast.

The Lark was attached to the fleet under Sir Hyde Parker, sent against the Northern Confederacy, in Mar. 1801. Lieutenant Wilson obtained his present rank on the 15th June, 1814. 



of the late Henry Rowed, of Caterham Court, co. Surrey, Esq.

This officer obtained his first commission on the 30th May, 1794; and was wounded while serving with the Anglo-Russian armies, at the Helder, in Sept. 1799. We next find him commanding the hired armed cutter Union, employed on the coast of France, where, in May 1800, he displayed great gallantry at the attack and capture of two merchant brigs, under a heavy fire from the shore. On the 9th Sept. 1803, being then in command of the hired cutter Sheerness, he performed another exploit, for the account of which we are indebted to Mr. James:

“Lieutenant Henry Rowed, having the look-out on the French fleet in Brest harbour, observed, close in shore, two chasse-marées stealing towards the port. Sending a boat, with the mate and seven men, to cut off one, the Sheerness herself proceeded in chase of the other, then nearly five miles distant, and close under a battery about nine miles to the eastward of Bec du Raz. At 10 it fell calm, and the only mode of pursuing the enemy was by a small boat suspended at the stern of the Sheerness, and which with difficulty would contain five persons. Lieutenant Rowed acquainted the crew with his determination to proceed in this boat, and called for four volunteers to accompany him. Immediately John