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 and, since the peace, commanding the Active revenue cruiser. Ho was advanced to his present rank on the 29th Sept. 1827. This officer married, Aug. 28th, 1815, a daughter of Mr. George Thomas Tracey, purser in the royal navy. 



the rank of lieutenant on the 21st Dec. 1808, and was second of the Mediator fire-ship, Captain James Wooldridge, at the attack of a French squadron near l’Isle d’Aix, in April 1809. Speaking of this service, Mr. James says:–

The fortunate circumstance of the Mediator (formerly a 32-gun frigate) being fitted as a fire-ship, was the means of the success with which the British arms were so gloriously crowned, as all the other fire-vessels were so small and light, being mostly transport brigs, that none of them could possibly have forced the boom. She was not set on fire till long after the boom had been broken, many minutes after the vessel conducted by Lord Cochrane had exploded, nor until she was within the buoys of l’Océan 120, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Allemand. Her gallant commander was immediately