In the following year, Captain Colville was appointed to the Sea Fencible service at Margate; and about the spring of 1807, he obtained the command of l’Hercule, a 74 gun-ship, in which he was employed during that and the succeeding year on the coast of Portugal. He afterwards commanded the Queen, another third rate, on the North Sea station, and in the West Indies.
Our officer succeeded to his present title on the demise of his father, March 8, 1811. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Aug. 12, 1819; and on the 10th Nov. 1821, hoisted his flag in the Semiramis frigate, as Commander-in-Chief on the Irish station. At the general elections in 1818 and 1820, he was chosen a representative peer for Scotland.
Lord Colville married, in Oct. 1790, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Francis Ford, of the Lears, Barbadoes, Esq. a Member of Council in that island, sister of the late Sir Francis Ford, and aunt of the present Baronet of that name.
JOHN COCHET, Esq
Rear-Admiral of the White.
This officer was born at Rochester, in Kent, Aug. 3, 1760; and entered the naval service, Dec. 22, 1775, under the auspices of Captain Philemon Pownall, with whom he served as a Midshipman, in the Blonde and Apollo frigates. On the 15th June, 17$0> the latter vessel, being on a cruise in the North Sea, fell in with, and after a sharp conflict compelled the French ship Stanislaus, of 26 guns, to seek shelter under the batteries at Ostend. The Apollo, on this occasion, had 6 men killed and 20 wounded. Among the former was her commander, who fell about an hour after the commencement of the action[1].
Towards the latter end of the same year, Mr. Cochet was appointed to act as Lieutenant in the Lizard; but being soon after superseded he joined the Amphion, another small frigate commanded by Captain Bazely[2], and proceeded in her to
- ↑ See note §, at p. 210. et seq.
- ↑ Captain Bazely succeeded Captain Pownall in the command of the Apollo, and on that ship being put out of commission was appointed to the Amphion. Soon after his arrival on the American station, he was en-
