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aide-de-camp to the Earl of Northesk at the memorable battle of Trafalgar. He passed his examination in Dec. 1807; obtained his first commission on the 22d Sept. 1808; and subsequently served in the Derwent sloop and Akbar frigate, as agent of transports, and as senior lieutenant of the Britannia first rate, flag-ship of Lord Northesk, when commander-in-chief at Plymouth. He was advanced to his present rank on the 24th Jan. 1828.

This officer married, July 9th, 1810, Miss J. M. Appleby, of Soberton. 



the royal navy in 1809, as midshipman on board the Blake 74, Captain (now Sir Edward) Codrington, under whom he served, principally on the Mediterranean station, for a period of four years. In 1813, we find him proceeding to North America, where he participated in much active service under the late Commodore Joseph Nourse, then commanding the Severn frigate. The last ship in which he served as a petty officer was the Tyne 26, Captain William M‘Kenzie Godfrey, on the Jamaica station.

On the 30th Sept. 1822, the Tyne’s tender, a small hired sloop named the Eliza, mounting one 12-pounder carronade, and having on board a midshipman (White), and twenty-four men, under the command of Mr. Nurse, was attacked at her anchorage in La Guahava by a piratical schooner, mounting six carriage guns, with a complement of forty men, and a felucca, the Firme Union, of five guns and thirty-five men:– the result will be seen by the following, hitherto unpublished, statement:–

“At 8-30,, the schooner brought up at a short distance, and without hailing, fired two shot at the Eliza. Mr. Nurse immediately