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 On the 15th Oct. 1812, Lieutenant Cobb was promoted to the command of the ten-gun brig Onyx, in which he served on the Lisbon and Jamaica stations, until again compelled to get invalided, in 1815. His opinion, grounded, as he expresses it, on an anxious and irksome experience of their insignificance, is decidedly opposed to the construction and equipment of such vessels as the Onyx, holding them unmeet for H.M. navy, whether in peace or war.

Commander Cobb married, in 1816, Sarah, eldest daughter of William Coates, Esq. and is now, we believe, a widower, with one son and three daughters. Lieutenant Charles Cobb, first of the Castilian sloop, who was mortally wounded in action with the Boulogne flotilla, Sept. 21st, 1811, and whose zeal for his country’s honor, and self-possession under very acute sufferings, excited the strongest admiration among those who witnessed his early and painful death, was a brother of this officer; as is also the present Lieutenant Thomas Cobb, R.N. 



made a lieutenant on the 19th April, 1803, and commander, Nov. 4th, 1812. 



officer is the third son of the late Colonel William St. Clair, of H.M. 25th regiment (who served with zeal and fidelity for the long space of forty-six years), by Augusta, daughter of the late John Tinling, Esq., and sister of the following gentlemen: viz. Lieutenant-General Isaac Tinling, grenadier-guards; Lieutenant-General David Latimer Tinling-Widdrington; Rear-Admiral Charles Tinling; Major George Tinling, 11th foot; John Tinling, Esq. of Fareham, Hants; and William Tinling, Esq. of Moira Place, Southampton. His grandfather was also a general officer, and