by a party of the enemy’s dragoons, in the neighbourhood of Tarragona; but he appears to have been very soon liberated by the Baron d’Eroles, then commanding a division of the Catalan army. During his short captivity, he witnessed the defeat of 800 French infantry, advantageously posted behind the walls of Villa Suca.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney.
RICHARD PLUMMER DAVIES, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Served under Sir Richard J. Strachan, in the Caesar 80, at the capture of four French line-of-battle ships, Nov. 4, 1805; received a lieutenant’s commission on the 24th of the following month; was made commander, April 11, 1809; and advanced to post rank, June 19, 1812.
Captain Davies commanded a division of gun-boats during the Walcheren expedition, in 1809; and subsequently the Brazen sloop, and Garland of 22 guns.
GEORGE WYNDHAM, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Eldest son of the late Hon. F. W. Wyndham (brother to the Earl of Egremont), by the Hon. Miss Harford, daughter of the last Lord Baltimore, of the kingdom of Ireland.
This officer was born Aug. 30, 1785; made lieutenant July 7, 1806; commander, April 30, 1810; appointed to the Hawke brig, on the Cherbourgh station, in Aug. 1811[1]; and posted, July 3, 1812. He subsequently commanded the Bristol troop-ship, on the Mediterranean station. Captain Wyndham married, Nov. 14, 1820, Jane, third daughter of the Reverend William Roberts, Vice-Provost of Eton College; and sister to Captain John Walter Roberts, R.N.
Agent.– Messrs. Stilwell.
