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 occasion, for surely never was greater spirit displayed I have the honor to be, &c.

(Signed)“.”

In the beginning of 1808, Lieutenant Furber was serving as first of the Flora frigate. Captain Loftus Otway Bland, on the North Sea station. The following account of the loss of that ship is taken from a letter dated at Lewarden, in Friesland, Jan. 26th, 1808:–

We lastly find Mr. Furber first lieutenant of the Lively frigate. Captain (now Rear-Admiral) M‘Kinley, employed in co-operation with the Spanish patriots on the coast of Galicia, from whence he was despatched to England in a hired vessel with intelligence of the surrender of Vigo, Mar. 7th, 1809. His commission as commander bears date Sept. 1st, 1824. 



his first commission on the 8th December, 1809; and was serving under Captain Charles Gill, in the Cleopatra frigate, at the close of the French war in 1814. He was subsequently flag-lieutenant to the late Sir William Charles Fahie, on the Leeward Island and Halifax stations. His promotion to the rank of commander took place Sept. 9th, 1824.

