Egyptian campaign he served as Flag-Captain to Lord Keith, in the Foudroyant, and returned to England with that officer on the 3d July, 1802. In Nov. following, he commissioned the Venerable, of 74 guns; and on the renewal of hostilities, in May 1803, upon Lord Keith being appointed Com mander-in-Chief of the North Sea fleet, he was selected to command the Monarch, another third-rate, bearing his Lordship’s flag, in which he continued until the summer of 1806, when he obtained a seat at the Victualling Board, of which he afterwards became the Chairman.
Commissioner Searle was passed over at the general promotion, Aug. 12, 1819; but on his retirement from the Board, he obtained the rank of Rear-Admiral (by commission, dated Feb. 8, 1822), with the same advantages he would have enjoyed had he accepted his flag at the former period.
SIR CHARLES BRISBANE,
Rear-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the White; Knight Commander of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath; Governor, Captain-General, and Vice-Admiral of the island of St. Vincent and its Dependencies.
This officer, the fourth and eldest surviving son of the late Admiral John Brisbane[1], entered the naval service about the year 1779, on board the Alcide, of 74 guns, under the auspices of his father, whom he afterwards accompanied into the Hercules, another third rate. This latter ship formed part of Sir George B. Rodney’s fleet, in the memorable battle of April 12, 1782, and was on that occasion commanded by Captain Henry Savage. Her loss, as already stated at p. 602, amounted to 7 killed and 19 wounded; among the latter was Mr. Charles Brisbane[2].
- ↑ Admiral Brisbane died at Southampton Dec. 10, 1807. He was a descendant of Allans de Brysbane, who obtained a grant of the lands of Mucherach, in Stirling, from Donald Earl of Lennox, who lived in the time of King David Bruce, anno 1329.
- ↑ Captain Brisbane on leaving the Hercules, confided his son Charles, then about nine years of age, to the care of her first Lieutenant, the present Rear-Admiral Nowell, whose brother officers, as a mark of the respect and esteem they had for their late commander, agreed that he should mess in the ward-room. Mr. Nowell appointed him his little aide-de-camp; but as he could not bring himself to acquiesce in the youngster’s wishes so far as
