promotion of those Commanders whom he had selected to head the different divisions of boats employed on that occasion. From the Isis Captain Nowell removed to the Ardent, 64; and during the remainder of the war he was entrusted with the command of a squadron stationed at the entrance of the Thames, to prevent any hostile force from proceeding up that river.
The Ardent was paid off in April 1802, and from that period Captain Nowell remained on half-pay until the year 1811, when he assumed the command of the Monmouth, of 64 guns, bearing the flag of the present Sir Thomas Foley, in the Downs. His commission as Rear-Admiral bears date Dec. 4, 1813.
Residence.– Court Place, Iffley, near Oxford.
JAMES BISSETT, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the Red.
At the Russian armament, in 1791, this officer commanded the Swallow, of 14 guns, on the home station; and in the following year, the Falcon sloop of war, at Jamaica. In 1793, we find him cruising in the Channel, where he appears to have captured several of the enemy’s privateers. He was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, Oct. 24, 1794; and, in 1795, commanded the Venerable, of 74 guns, bearing the flag of Admiral Duncan, in the North Sea. From that ship he removed into the Janus frigate, and proceeded in her to the West Indies, from whence he returned with the homeward bound trade, in 1797; and from that period we lose sight of him until the month of Dec, 1805, when he sat as a member of the Court-Martial assembled to try the late Sir Robert Calder, for his conduct in the action with the combined fleets of France and Spain, in the preceding summer.
Towards the close of the late war, Captain Bissett commanded the Royal Sovereign a first rate, forming part of the Channel fleet, under Lord Keith. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Dec. 4th, 1813.
