800 yards of the castle, as to enable that intelligent officer. Lieutenant George Logan, of the royal marine artillery, to throw 102 shells into the castle, only the first four going too far. Captain Lushington assures me, that he received the most valuable assistance from Lieutenant Baldwin W. Walker.
The gallantry and zeal displayed by our countrymen on this occasion are highly eulogised by the commander of the French forces, the Marquis Maison, in his official despatches, dated Oct. 31, at which period the British colours were flying alongside the lily of France, upon the lately supposed impregnable walls of the “Chateau de Morea.”
Captain Lyons married, July 18, 1814, Augusta, second daughter of the late Captain Josias Rogers, who commanded the Quebec frigate, at the capture of the French West Indian islands, in 1794, and was cut off in the midst of a gallant and prosperous career, to the infinite sorrow of his patron, Admiral Sir John Jervis, who pronounced him to have “a mind fertile in resources, a clear head, and a gallant heart.” Mrs. Lyons is a niece to the late Rear-Admiral Thomas Rogers, who died suddenly in her arms, at Tours, in France, Sept. 20, 1814.
SIR CHARLES SULLIVAN, Bart.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
Third son of Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan, Bart. M.P. for Seaford, who died in 1806, by Mary, daughter of Thomas Lodge, of Leeds, Esq. He was born June 8, 1791; made lieutenant, April 25, 1808; commander. Mar. 24, 1812; appointed to the Penelope troop-ship, Oct. 26, 1813; and posted June 7, 1814. Since the peace he has commanded the Galatea frigate, employed in various services, for the usual period of three years.
This officer married, Nov. 21, 1818, the only daughter of Robert Taylor, of Ember Court, co. Surrey, Esq. His eldest surviving brother. Sir Henry Sullivan, Bart. Lieutenant-Colonel of the first regiment of Foot Guards, was killed before Bayonne, in April, 1814.
Agent.– J. Copland, Esq.
