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  64, Captain Valentine Edwards, on the East India station. When that ill-fated ship was wrecked in Table Bay, Nov. 5th, 1799, he had the good fortune to be on shore. He obtained a lieutenant’s commission in Nov. 1805; the rank of commander, on the 15th June, 1814; and married, July 27th, 1815, Isabella, widow of T. Scott, Esq. of Calcutta. 



made a lieutenant on the 22d Jan. 1806. He commanded a boat belonging to the Tartar frigate. Captain Joseph Baker, at the capture of a Danish privateer, on the coast of Courland, May 15th, 1809; and obtained his present rank on the 15th June, 1814. 



made a lieutenant in Feb. 1806; and appointed first of the Apollo 38, Captain Bridges W. Taylor, fitting out at Portsmouth, for the Mediterranean station, April 30th, 1810. On the 13th Feb. 1812, he assisted in capturing the French frigate-built store-ship Merinos, of 20 guns and 126 men, under the batteries of Corsica ; and subsequently the national xebec Ulysse, attached to the Corfu flotilla, On the 21st Dec. in the same year, he commanded the boats of the Apollo, assisted by those of the Weazle sloop, at the destruction of St. Cataldo, the strongest tower between Brindisi and Otranto. The subsequent reduction of Augusta and Curzola, two islands in the Adriatic, was thus officially reported by his captain:

“H.M.S. Apollo, Curzola, Feb. 4th, 1813.

“Sir,– In compliance with your orders of the 18th January, we proceeded, with 250 men, under Lieutenant Colonel Robertson, on board the Apollo, Esperanza privateer, and four gun-boats, to the attack of Augusta, and I have the honor to acquaint you, that it surrendered on the 29th.

