mainmasts; but, by great exertions, she was taken safe into the port of Lissa under jury-masts. Her mizen-mast fell a few minutes before she struck[1].
Towards the close of the year 1812, we find Captain Talbot, to whom the Board of Admiralty had presented a gold medal, for his gallant conduct in capturing the Rivoli, proceeding with Sir John B. Warren to the coast of North America, on which station he continued in the Victorious during the remainder of the war. He obtained a Colonelcy of Royal Marines, June 4, 1814; and was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815. His advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral took place Aug. 12, 1819.
Sir John Talbot married, Oct, 17, 1815, Juliana, youngest daughter of James Everard, 9th Lord Arundel, and a Count of the Sacred Roman Empire, by Mary Christiana, eldest daughter of his first cousin, the 8th Lord.
JOHN RICHARD DELAP TOLLEMACHE, Esq
(late halliday.)
Rear-Admiral of the White.
This officer is the eldest son of the late John Delap Halliday, of Castlemains, in the Stewartry of Kircudbright, N.B., and of the Leasowes, in Shropshire, Esq., by Lady Jane Tollemache, daughter of Lionel, third Earl of Dysart, whose ancestors were settled at Bentley, in Suffolk, previous to the Norman Conquest.
- ↑ The following anecdote is related of James Daley, a seaman of the Victorious, whose left thigh was carried away by a shot, so high up that a portion of the hip was attached to it, and the right shattered to pieces. On his way to the cockpit, he observed that one of the guns close to the hatchway, was run out, and about to be discharged; he immediately desired the seamen who were carrying him down, to stop, which they did, when he requested to be allowed to have one shot more at the enemy before he died; “after doing which,” he added, “he would die content.” His request was granted; when he very contentedly permitted himself to be carried down, exclaiming on the ladder, “Fight on, my boys! fight on for your King and Country until you die.” On his arrival in the cockpit, he said to the Surgeon, “Sir, I know you will do all you can for me, but I also know, there is nothing in your power.” Tn less than half an hour after, his gallant soul left this for another world.
