Allen, who distinguished himself in Canada under the immortal Wolfe. Captain Blarney’s two brothers died in the naval service: his sister married Captain, afterwards Major Hutcheson, of the 71st regiment.
Agents.– Messrs. Barnett and King.
JOHN COODE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Knight Commander of the Royal Neapolitan Order of St Ferdinand, and of Merit; and a Knight of the Order of Wilhelm, of the Netherlands.
This officer was made a Lieutenant, Sept. 5, 1799; and advanced to the rank of Commander, in 1802. His post commission bears date, Oct. 21, 1810.
At the commencement of 1814, Captain Coode commanded the Porcupine, a 22-gun ship bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral, (now Sir Charles V.) Penrose, who was then employed in co-operation with the victorious armies of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal; and whose eminent services in the neighbourhood of Bayonne and Bourdeaux, we shall take this opportunity of relating:– the means by which we are enabled to do so have been obtained from various authentic sources, since the publication of our first volume.
It may not be amiss to state that, on the 10th Feb. 1814, the present Dauphin of France, under the auspices of Lord Wellington, then at St. Jean de Luz, issued a proclamation In the name of Louis XVIII., addressed to him (the Duc d’Angouléme), and empowering him, with the usual formalities, to represent his uncle till the arrival of the latter in France, and authorizing to employ himself in the re-establishment of good order in the different provinces into which he might be able to penetrate, as well as in the adjacent provinces. To this proclamation was added a brief but animated address from the Dauphin himself, to the French nation[1].
A few days after the promulgation of the above, the Mar-
- ↑ See Elliot’s Life of Wellington, 2d edit. p. 542.
