In April, 1820, Captain Hodder was assaulted in Hyde Park, by an armed black, who, under a threat of charging him with an offence of a detestable nature, extorted some money from him. Captain Hodder caused the miscreant to be instantly apprehended, and in the following month he was executed at the Old Bailey.
Captain Hodder died in France, at the commencement of the present year.
JOHN HARDY GODBY, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
Son of the late John Godby, Esq. Steward of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, by a daughter of Josiah Hardy, Esq. H.M. Consul at Cadiz, and formerly Governor of the Jerseys, North America[1].
He was made lieutenant in 1800; commander Sept. 25, 1806; appointed to the Prospero sloop, Nov. 18, 1809; and posted June 27, 1814. On the 17th Feb. 1811, he destroyed a Danish privateer cutter, of 2 guns and 25 men, near Christiansand, on the coast of Norway.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
CHRISTOPHER STRACHEY, Esq.
Knight of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Wladimer.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
This officer was made lieutenant in 1798; and promoted to the command of the Jalouse brig, April 29, 1802. On the 14th June, in the following year, he assisted at the capture of la Commode French national brig, and l’Inabordable schooner, each mounting 4 heavy guns. In the performance of this service, the master’s-mate of the Jalouse was badly wounded[2].
We next find Captain Strachey commanding the Dauntless praam, on the Downs station, from whence he was sent, with two other vessels of the same description under his orders, to
