lant detachment of the navy, you will particularly express the high sense I feel for their services

Captain Leslie's able and meritorious conduct, while employed under the Hon. Captain Elliot, in reinstating the Sultan of Palambang, is thus handsomely acknowledged by his distinguished commander-in-chief, in a letter addressed to the latter officer, dated at Trincomalee, Oct. 18, 1813 :

'Sir, I have received your letter of the 3d Sept., detailing your services with those of H. M. ships Hussar and Volage under your orders, assisted by the troops commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Macgregor, on the expedition against Palambang. It is with peculiar satisfaction I notice the superior judgment displayed by you in the arrangement and management of this service, and the great and able exertions of Captain Leslie, the officers and men employed in the boats under his direction, whose expedition, successful efforts, and complete surprise, precluded any resistance in placing the Nagor Ordeen on the throne, as well as their further services. I beg you will communicate to Captain Leslie, and the officers and men employed, my entire approbation and thanks for their services.

* Lieutenant Henry Hoghton, who so gallantly seconded Captain Leslie in the above attack, was severely wounded in the left thigh-the anterior and principal muscle of extension being divided. After rest, and appropriate surgical treatment, the wound healed and he attempted to go to his duty, when he was attacked with the bilious remittent fever so general among those employed on the service against Sambas, and which attacked all the wounded seamen as they successively returned to their duty, a fever dreadfully severe in its attack, highly exhausting in its nature, and usually followed by serious visceral disease. Lieutenant Hoghton recovered from the fever (as did all on board the Hussar, although the mortality was very great among the other ships and the troops), yet his life has subsequently been one of great and acute suffering, from internal disease, as well as from the lameness occasioned by his wound.

This gentleman had previously served upwards of seven years, as midshipman and lieutenant on board the Modeste and Hussar, during which period he never relaxed from the most active and steady discharge of his duty, behaving on all occasions in a manner highly creditable to himself, and satisfactory to his captain, the Hon. George Elliot. He is at present senior lieutenant of the Victory first rate, commanded by that officer, and bearing the flag of the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, K. C. B. &c. &c.

Mr. William Henry Baptist Proby, the midshipman mentioned in Captain Leslie's report, was immediately promoted by Sir Samuel Hood, and confirmed as a lieutenant by the Admiralty, Jan. 9, 1814. He has recently been appointed to the Southampton 50, fitting for the flag of Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen.

I have to express how sensible I am of the conduct of the whole of the offi cers and men under your command. I am particularly gratified with the cordial manner in which you were supported by Lieutenant-Colonel Macgregor, and the officers and men of the 59th regiment, and the artillery under his command. I cannot conclude this without offering you my sincerest obligations for your judicious and excellent guidance and direction of the expedition. I have the honor to be, &c.

After his removal from the Volage to the Theban, Jan. 1, 1814, Captain Leslie hoisted the flag of Sir Samuel Hood, and proceeded with him to Calcutta. He was subsequently entrusted with the command of a squadron employed in the Java seas. The Theban was ordered home towards the close of 1815, and paid off at Plymouth, in April, 1816.

Captain Leslie married, Sept. 1817, Martha, only daughter of George Vaughan, Esq. descended from an old and respectable English family.

Agents.-Messrs. Stilwell.

RIGHT HON. HENRY JOHN, LORD SELSEY, Fellow of the Royal Society.

THIS officer is the second son of the late Lord Selsey, by Hester Elizabeth, daughter of George Jennings, of Newsells Park, co. Herts, Esq. and cousin to the late Marquis of Clanricarde.

He obtained the rank of Lieutenant, Jan. 5, 1807; and served as first of the Cornwallis frigate, Captain W. A. Montagu, at the capture of Amboyna, in Feb. 1810*: his conduct on that occasion was highly spoken of in the public despatches. A very gallant exploit subsequently performed by three boats, under his direction, is thus officially described:

"H. M. S. Cornwallis, at Sea, Mar. 3, 1810. "Sir,-Having chased a Dutch man-of-war brig, during the whole of the first day of March, we observed her take refuge in a small bay on the north side of the island of Amblaw; and as the wind was light and variable, and night approaching, I sent the yawl, cutter, and jolly-boat, under the

* See Suppl. Part I. pp. 198-201, and 219, et seq.

command of the Hon. Lieutenant Peachey, assisted by Mr. Garland, master, and Mr. Sanderson, master's-mate, to bring her off. After a fatiguing pull the whole night, they found themselves at day-light close to her, when she was boarded in a most gallant manner, in the face of a heavy fire of grape and musketry, and defended bravely by pikes and swords; in a few moments she was carried, and proved to be the Dutch national vessel Margaretta, mounting 8 guns, but pierced for 14, and having on board 40 men. She had left Souroubaya nine days, having between twenty and thirty thousand dollars on board, for Amboyna, and supplies of all kinds for Ternate.

"Lieutenant Peachey speaks highly of the able support he received from the officers and men under his orders. I am sorry to say, that we had one man dangerously wounded, and four slightly; the enemy, one officer killed and twenty seamen wounded. I have the honor to be, &c.

(Signed)

"W. A. MONTAGU." "To Captain Edward Tucker, H. M. S. Dover, senior officer."

The subject of this sketch commanded the Hecate sloop at the reduction of Java, in 1811; obtained post rank, Aug. 7, 1812 (on which occasion he was appointed to the Malacca frigate, at Madras); and returned to England, from Bengal, in the Sir Francis Drake 38, with a fleet worth, at least, three millions sterling under his protection, in May, 1813.

Lord Selsey succeeded to the title on the demise of his father, June 27, 1816; and married Oct. 21, 1817, the Hon. Anna Maria Louisa Irby, youngest daughter of Frederick, Lord Boston.

Agent.-J. Copland, Esq.

EDWARD ELLICOTT, Esq.

WAS senior lieutenant of la Revolutionnaire frigate, Captain Francis Cole, at the capture of l'Unité, thus described by Sir Edward Pellew, now Viscount Exmouth, in a letter to the Admiralty, dated H. M. S. Indefatigable, April 20, 1796:

"I have the pleasure to inform their lordships, that on the 13th instant, at 4 P. M. we fell in with, and gave chase to a French frigate to wind. ward la Revolutionnaire being far astern, was tacked by signal to cut the chase off from the shore; and I had the pleasure to see her, just before dark, in a situation to weather the enemy upon a different board, which obliged her also to tack.

"The night setting in cloudy, we lost sight of the chase before 9 o'clock,

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when she bore up, but not unobserved by that zealous and attentive officer, Captain Cole, who pursued and closed with her at half-past 11; and not being able to prevail upon her commander to surrender without resistance, he opened a close and well-directed fire upon her, which was but faintly returned after a second broadside, the enemy struck, and proved to be l'Unité, from l'Orient to Rochfort, mounting 38 guns, 12 and 6pounders, and manned with 255 men, 9 of whom were slain, and 11 desperately wounded. La Revolutionnaire happily had not a man hurt; and appears that she was manoeuvred by Captain Cole in the most officerlike manner, and the attack made with great gallantry. I have the honor to enclose the report which he has made of the good conduct of his officers and ship's company upon this occasion; and, from the high terms in which he speaks of his first lieutenant, Mr. Ellicott, who I know to be a good officer, I have thought it proper to give him an order to command the prize to England.

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"L'Unité was reputed one of the fastest sailers in the French navy; she is a very fine frigate, only 7 years old."

(Extracts of Captain Cole's report).

"Allow me, Sir, to express to you how much I feel myself obliged to my first lieutenant, Edward Ellicott, for his very particular attention in keeping sight of the chase, and for his steady and manly courage when close engaged the cheerfulness with which he put himself at the head of the boarders promised me the happiest success, if boarding had been necessary, and which was only stopped by the enemy's calling to surrender.

"I cannot sufficiently express my own good fortune in not having lost an officer or man, which is to be attributed to the enemy's firing at the masts and rigging."

This officer's promotion to the rank of Commander took place in May, 1797; and his post commission bears date Aug. 12, 1812, at which period he commanded the Hebe hired armed ship, on the North Sea station. Agent.—J. Dufaur, Esq.

ALEXANDER MILNER, Esq.

SUCCESSIVELY commanded the Devastation bomb, Swallow sloop, and Dolphin and Gorgon, 44 gun ships, armée-en flûte. His post commission bears date Aug. 12, 1812.

JAMES BARKER, Esq.

Son of Mr. James Barker, ship-owner, who perished at sea in 1778; and brother to the late Edward Barker, Esq. Commander R. N.

This officer was born at Rotherhithe, co. Surrey, Mar. 2, 1772; and his name appears on the books of the Beaver sloop so early as June 13, 1780. He belonged to the Solebay 28, Captain Charles Holmes Everitt, when that frigate was wrecked, in an action, at the Leeward Islands; and we afterwards find him on board the Prudent 64, Captain Andrew Barclay, which ship formed part of the fleet under Sir Samuel Hood, and sustained a loss of 18 killed and 36 wounded in the different affairs with Count de Grasse, Jan. 25 and 26, 1782 *.

At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, Mr. Barker was received on board the Russell 74, of which ship his uncle was then serving as master; and in her he assisted at the defeat of the republican fleet under Mons. Villaret de Joyeuse, on the glorious 1st of June, 1794 †. He was subsequently lent to the Jupiter 50, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore J. W. Payne, and placed by that officer in the yacht fitted for the reception of H. S. H. the Princess Caroline of Brunswick, whom he accompanied from Cuxhaven to the Thames, in the spring of 1795: his promotion to the rank of lieutenant took place a few days after her arrival in England ‡.

From that period, Lieutenant Barker served under Sir James Saumarez, in the Orion 74, till he was made a commander, Oct. 8, 1798: he consequently assisted at the capture of three French two-deckers, by Lord Bridport's fleet, off l'Orient, June 23, 1795; at the defeat of the Spaniards, by Sir John Jervis, off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797; and

* See Vol. II. Part I. note † at p. 63 et seq.

↑ See Vol. I. Part I. note at pp. 75-78, and Suppl. Part I. p. 55 See Vol. I. Part I. note ‡ at p. 353 et seq.