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 conveyed despatches from Naples to Palermo, announcing the surrender of the former capital; and subsequently served as a volunteer at the siege of Gaieta. The Impregnable appears to have been put out of commission in December, 1815.

Lieutenant Fleming’s last appointment was, July 3d, 1816, to the Queen Charlotte 120, fitting out for the flag of Lord Exmouth, and destined against Algiers. During the attack upon that “warlike city,” he commanded with great credit a battering-vessel (No. 5), mounting one 68-pounder; and after expending all his ammunition, blew up an ordnance sloop, charged with 143 barrels of gunpowder, close under the semicircular battery to the northward of the lighthouse; which must have operated very successfully as a diversion in favour of the severely mauled Impregnable. He obtained the rank of commander on the 17th Sept. 1816.

This officer was the first person who fully represented the sufferings of the Christians in slavery at Algiers; for which, and his subsequent services, the King of the Two Sicilies was pleased to confer upon him the Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit. He married, Jan. 8th, 1821, Eliza, daughter of P. George, Esq. of Berkeley Square, Bristol. 



the rank of lieutenant on the 2d Feb. 1809; and served as such under Captain Nicholas Lockyer, in the Hound sloop, off Flushing; and Captain James Macnamara, in the Edgar and Berwick 74’s, on the Baltic and Channel stations. We lastly find him in the Queen Charlotte 120, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth, at the battle of Algiers. He was made a commander on the 8th Oct. 1816. 



of the late Mr. Philip Le Vesconte, who lost a leg in Earl Howe’s action, June 1st, 1794, and died purser of