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his first commission on the 22d of April 1802; and was senior lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte 120, bearing the flag of Admiral Lord Keith, commander-in-chief on the Channel station, in 1813 and 1814. He was promoted to the rank of commander, October 12th, in the latter year; and appointed to the ordinary at Portsmouth, in 1816. 



Montagu obtained his present rank on the 13th of June, 1815. We cannot but express our surprise that this officer, who has had the honor of holding a naval commission for twenty-eight years, should be ignorant that he is not entitled to a superior appellation; the King in Council having commanded, in 1824, that only “officers appointed to command ships of the sixth rate and upwards should in future be styled Captains.”

Had Commander Montagu, when replying to a letter written to him on the 4th of February 1834, addressed us in courteous terms, we should have felt pleasure in privately referring him to the New Naval Regulations, Chapter II. Sect. IV. Art. I.; and to the “Classes and Denominations of His Majesty’s Ships,” as given in the “Navy List, published by Authority.” 



the royal navy under the patronage of his present Majesty, and first embarked on board the Cruiser 18, Captain (afterwards Sir James) Brisbane, in which sloop he was present at the battle of Copenhagen, April 2d, 1801. From that vessel, he followed Captain Brisbane into the Saturn 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Totty; which ship was paid off, on her return from the West Indies, in 1802. He then joined the Africaine frigate, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Thomas Manby, under whom he served on the North Sea station until 1805, when he was removed to the Blenheim