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 Lieutenant Corbyn was promoted to the rank of commander on the 15th June, 1814. 



of Mr. Daniel M‘Coy, a master in the royal navy. He was made a lieutenant on the 3d July, 1802; promoted to his present rank, while serving as first of the Swiftsure 74, Captain Edward Stirling Dickson, June 15th, 1814; and appointed an inspecting commander in the coast-guard service, April 6th, 1831. 



the third son of the late Robert Canning, of Hertford, Esq. He entered the royal navy under the auspices of the late Rear-Admiral John Willet Payne, by whom he was placed, as midshipman, on board the Russel 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral M‘Bride, on the North Sea station, in the summer of 1796. From this ship he was soon afterwards removed into l’Impetueux 78, commanded by his patron, and attached to the Channel fleet; where he continued until that officer’s promotion to a flag, in Feb. 1799. He then joined the Tamar frigate, Captain Thomas Western, fitting out for the reception of Lord Hugh Seymour, the newly appointed commander-in-chief at the Leeward Islands, to whose patronage he was most strongly recommended.

Shortly after his arrival in the West Indies, Mr. Canning witnessed the surrender of the Dutch colony at Surinam, to the naval and military forces under Lord Hugh Seymour and Lieutenant-General Trigge ; and six days subsequent to that event, he assisted at the capture of the French frigate Republicain, mounting 34 guns, with a complement of 250 men, some of whom, however, were absent in prizes. In the short but close action which took place on this occasion (after an anxious chase of more than fifty hours), the enemy’s ship was