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  ship Albion, “homeward bound with a valuable cargo of merchandise, and treasure to the amount of upwards of 100,000l., from the situation of extreme peril in which she was placed on the 10th June, 1822, when in a strong gale of wind, she broke from her anchorage in Simon’s Bay, and drove to within the distance of a few fathoms from the rocks .” He subsequently proceeded in the Hyperion to St. Helena, Ascension, and Jamaica, on which station we find him commanding the Union and Renegade schooners, for nearly four years. He obtained his present rank on the 10th July, 1826, and was appointed to the command of the Columbine sloop, in the West Indies, July 2d, 1831. The following letter was addressed by his respected and worthy father to the Lord Mayor of London, Dec. 14th in the latter year:–

“My Lord, – I beg to apologise for a trespass on your Lordship’s time; but I rely with confidence on your Lordship’s indulgence, when I state that my only object is, that those who apply and exert their minds for the benefit of the public should enjoy that creditable reward which is most justly their due, and which they are at all times sure of receiving from the chief magistrate of the city of London.

“Having just read in the Albion newspaper, of the 12th instant, a statement of a Mr. Steevens having presented to your Lordship a model of paddles to be used, instead of wheels, by steam-vessels, it becomes my duty, in justice to my son, Captain Henry Ommanney Love, of H.M.S. Columbine, now on the Jamaica station, to inform your Lordship, that I have every reason to believe that the invention and application of paddles to steam-vessels rests entirely with him, and was submitted to persons of distinction, and in high official situations, as far back as Christmas last; and that a model was transmitted accordingly to a Lord of the Admiralty. I have the honor to be &c.

(Signed)“.”

The following is an extract of a letter from an officer belonging to the Columbine, dated Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, Jan. 28th, 1833:–

“On the morning of the 22d, a signal was made for a ship on shore to windward: ours was instantly made by the Pallas frigate. Captain