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 Commander Wyvill, who, with one of the gunner’s-mates, plugged the cask and slung it, apparently in the midst of the flame. On the 31st Jan. 1828, he was present in the Cameleon at the destruction of several Greek piratical vessels, lying in the port of Carahousa. He obtained the rank of captain Feb. 22d, 1832. 

 his first commission on the 8th April 1806; served as second lieutenant of la Nereide frigate. Captain (now Sir Nisbet J.) Willoughby; and was one of the gallant companions of that heroic officer when he landed at Jacotel, in the Isle of France, April 30th, 1810. We subsequently find him first of the Boadicea, Captain (now Sir Josias) Rowley, by whom he was recommended to the “favorable notice” of Vice-Admiral Bertie, commander-in-chief on the Cape station, for “the steadiness and zeal he manifested” at the recapture of H.M. ship Africaine, in the presence of two French frigates, near Isle Bourbon, Sept. 13th, 1810. On the 21st of the same month. Captain Rowley reported the capture of la Venus frigate commanded by Mons. Hamelin, senior officer of the French squadron in India; and the recapture of H.M. ship Ceylon, having on board Major-General the Hon. John Abercromby and his staff. The following is an extract from the official letter addressed to Vice-Admiral Bertie on this occasion:– “To Lieutenant Laugharne I feel much indebted, for his able assistance in taking charge of and conducting into port the Africaine and la Venus; and I beg you will have the goodness to recommend him to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.”

A few days afterwards, Lieutenant Laugharne was promoted to the command of the Otter sloop, and ordered to England with despatches announcing the Vice-Admiral’s