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 the Royal William 84, flag-ship at Spithead, May 25th, 1807.

This officer was wounded on board the Monarch 74, Captain James Robert Mosse, at the battle of Copenhagen, April 2d, 1801; and wrecked in the Magnificent 74, Captain William Henry Jervis, near Brest, March 25th, 1804; on which latter occasion eighty-six of his shipmates were taken prisoners. He obtained the rank of lieutenant in May, 1801; and served for several years, previous to and since the peace, as first of the Elephant and Queen 74’s, the former ship commanded by the present Rear-Admiral Austen, in the North Sea and Baltic; the latter bearing the flag of the late Sir Charles V. Penrose, on the Mediterranean station. His commission as commander bears date Nov. 7th, 1816. 



his first commission in Aug. 1810; served as flag-lieutenant to LordExmouth, in 1815; and was advanced to his present rank, Nov. 7th, 1815. 



of a Greenock merchant, and first cousin to Thomas Campbell, Esq. the celebrated poet. This officer was made a lieutenant on the 7th Jan. 1802; and appears to have served successively as first of the Ville de Paris 110, Captain (afterwards Sir George) Burlton, on the Mediterranean station; Stirling Castle 74, Captain Sir Home Popham, employed in conveying the late Marquis of Hastings from England to Bengal; and Cornwallis 74, bearing the flag of Sir George Burlton, when commander-in-chief in the East Indies. He obtained the rank of commander on the 15th Nov. 1816; and died at Bothwell Mount Cottage, near Glasgow, In Aug. 1825. His brother, Robert Campbell, Esq. was made a commander in 1821.

