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 the Baltic station, until paid off at Plymouth, in Jun. 1814. During the first seven years of the peace he served in several guard-ships and sloops of war; and subsequently commanded the Hound, Basilisk, and Sylvia cutters, employed in protecting the revenue. From the latter vessel he was promoted to his present rank Sept. 20th, 1827.

Commander Dickson married, Aug. 21st, 1828, Hester, youngest daughter of the late Rev. William Rawlins, M.A., rector of Teversal, co. Notts. His surviving brothers are. Colonel Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.B., K.C.H., Deputy-Adjutant General Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp to the King; and Captain Rowland Cotton Dickson, H.E.I.C. artillery. His sister, Jane, married her first cousin, Captain Archibald Dickson, R.N., son of General John Dickson. 



first find serving as master’s-mate of the Minorca sloop. Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, on the Mediterranean station, in 1805. He passed his examination May 1809; obtained his first commission on the 9th Dec. in the same year; and was advanced to his present rank on the 29th Sept. 1827. 



himself on several occasions while serving as lieutenant under the late Sir William Hoste, from whose official letters, addressed to Rear-Admiral Fremantle, we make the following selection:–

“H.M.S. Bacchante, off Otranto, Jan. 6th. 1813.

“Sir,– At day-break this morning, in company with H.M. sloop Weazle, I discovered a division of the enemy’s flotilla close to us, steering for the coast of Italy; it was nearly a calm. The enemy, on seeing us, separated; and I detached the boats of this ship, under Lieutenant O’Brien, to attack one subdivision, and directed the Weazle’s boats, with one from the Bacchante, to pursue the other, then endeavouring to gain