saw the bottom, and carried soundings of 19 and 20 fathoms over a bank now bearing his name, but the extent of which he could not stop to ascertain: at the time of his discovering it, he made the latitude 6° 46' 30" S. and the longitude by chronometer was 70° 12' E. The ships in company with him had no soundings. The Cornelia returned home with a convoy from China, and was paid off, in 1813.
Since 1815, Captain Owen has surveyed the Lakes in Canada; and the coasts of Asia and Africa, from Cape Comorin, along the coasts of Malabar and Surat, the whole extent of the sea-side of Persia and Arabia, the east side of Africa (including Madagascar, the Seychelles, and other islands), and the Atlantic shores of that continent, to the river Gambia. He is at present employed in forming a new settlement at Fernando Po, an island in the Bight of Benin; it being supposed that it will prove not only a more healthy situation than Sierra Leone, but that it will also afford greater facilities for the prevention of the slave-trade.
We very much regret, that it is not at present in our power to give a more perfect sketch of the services of this gallant, enterprising, and scientific officer. At a future period we may be enabled to do so.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co.
MANLEY HALL DIXON, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]
Eldest surviving child of Admiral Sir Manley Dixon, K.C.B. by Miss Christiana Hall, of Jamaica.
This officer was born in the parish of Stoke Damarell, co. Devon, June 8, 1786; and he entered the navy in June, 1794, under the immediate protection of his father, with whom he served as midshipman, master’s mate, and acting Lieutenant, in the Porcupine of 24 guns, l’Espion 40, the Lion 64, and le Généreux 74; on the Channel, North Sea, Irish, and Mediterranean stations, until Captain Dixon’s removal to the Alexander 74, about June 1801.
In l’Espion, Mr. Dixon witnessed the capture of le Buonaparte French privateer, of 17 guns and 110 men, Feb. 14, 1797: the important services performed by the Lion have been fully described at pp. 375–378 of Vol. I. Part I. Le
