teries at Point Coubre, Point Negre, Royan, Sonsae, and Meche, were successively entered and destroyed by a detachment under Captain Harris, of the Belle Poule.
Four days previous to the above event, by which the navigation of the Gironde was completely cleared as far as Blaye, the advanced boats of the British squadron, under Lieutenant Dunlop, of the Porcupine, encountered a flotilla, consisting of two gun-brigs, eight gun-boats, one armed schooner, four ehasse-marees, and an imperial barge, the whole of which were either captured or destroyed.
In the course of the same year, Rear-Admiral Penrose was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the. Mediterranean, where he continued during the customary period. He was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 3, 1816, and made a Vice-Admiral, July 19, 1821.
Sir Charles Penrose is married, and has several children, one of whom is the wife of Captain Coode, R.N.
Residence.– Ethy, Cornwall.
SIR WILLIAM HOTHAM,
Vice-Admiral of the Blue; and Knight Commander of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
This officer, the second son of the late General Hotham, by Diana, daughter of Sir Warton Pennyman Warton, Bart., and nephew of the late Admiral Lord Hotham[1], was born in Feb. 1772; entered early into the naval service, and obtained the rank of Post-Captain in the Cyclops, a small frigate stationed in the Mediterranean, Oct. 7, 1794. He returned to England about the month of Feb. 1796; and in the spring of the following year, obtained the command of the Adamant, a 50-gun ship employed in the North Sea.
The Adamant, as already mentioned p. 160 of this vo-
- ↑ The ancestor of this family, Sir John de Trehouse, Lord of Kilkenny in Ireland, for his services at the battle of Hastings, had a grant from the Conqueror, of the castles and manors of Colley Weston, co. Northampton, and Hotham in Yorkshire, from which his posterity assumed the name of Hotham: many of this family had summonses to parliament as Barons, and one of them was Chancellor to King Edward II.
