There is another circumstance that we cannot avoid noticing, previous to our closing this memoir.
As all the materials of which “Beaufort’s Karamania” was composed, were acquired in his Majesty’s service, and in the execution of a public duty, the able Author refused to accept of any remuneration from the publisher for the copyright of the MS., thereby setting an example calculated to excite future officers to that independent and disinterested feeling which should ever characterise the British Navy!
Captain Beaufort now enjoys a pension of 250l. per annum, for his numerous wounds. He married, Dec. 3, 1812, Alicia Magdalena, eldest daughter of Lestock Wilson, of Harley Street, London, Esq.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.
BENJAMIN WALKER, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Was made a Lieutenant at the close of 1796; and promoted to the rank of Commander early in 1802. We subsequently find him commanding the Rosamond, an 18 gun ship-sloop, on the North Sea and West India stations. In June, 1806, he captured the Amstellan, Dutch privateer, of 12 guns and 60 men; and on the 18th Dec. 1809, le Papillon, French national brig, of 16 guns and 110 men, including 30 troops, with a quantity of flour on board, intended for the garrison of Guadaloupe. His post commission bears date June 15, 1810.
JOHN MAXWELL, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Brother to Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, C.B., whose services we already have recorded[1].
This officer was made a Lieutenant about May 1800; and advanced to the rank of Commander, Jan. 22, 1806.
