“The ship’s company of the little frigate that had the honour to lay between the Queen Charlotte and Superb, on the glorious 27th of August, 1816, beg leave to express their high admiration of the noble fire kept up by these ships on that glorious day, by which, in a great measure, the enemy’s fire was drawn from his Majesty’s ship Granicus.”
Superb’s Answer.
“The ship’s company of the Superb returns their many thanks to the ship’s company of the little frigate, for the high compliment they have been pleased to pay them, and have only to hope that should they ever again go into action, they may have a Granicus to support them.”
Captain Wise was nominated a C.B. Sept. 21, 1816, and appointed to the Spartan frigate, Jan. 6, 1818.
In the course of the latter year, the Genoese ship Misericordia having been plundered by the Algerines of considerable property, and the Genoese Vice-Consul treated with great indignity, previous to his being dismissed, a complaint was made to the British government of this violation of the treaty which had been concluded by Lord Exmouth. On this representation, the Spartan was despatched from England to demand an explanation, and to remonstrate against these violent proceedings. Captain Wise appears to have been completely successful in the object of his mission. Immediately on his arrival at Algiers, he entered, in conjunction with H.M. Consul, into a negociation with the Dey, the result of which was, the payment of 35,000 dollars as a compensation for the property plundered on board the Misericordia, and an unqualified disavowal, on the part of the reigning Dey, of the act of his predecessor (who died of the plague, Mar. 1, 1818) in sending away the representative of his Sardinian Majesty.
In 1819, the Spartan visited Madeira, Dominica, Vera Cruz, Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Halifax; in July 1820, she conveyed Lord Combermere from Barbadoes to England; and we subsequently find her proceeding to the Havannah, Charlestown, and New York; from whence she returned to England, for the purpose of being paid off, in Jan. 1821[1].
The subject of this sketch married, June 16, 1810, Fanny, only daughter of W. Grenfell, Esq.
- ↑ Captain Wise conveyed 2,000,000 dollars from Vera Cruz to Jamaica, and 500,000 from the Havannah to Charlestown, besides bringing smaller sums from Barbadoes and New York to England.
