subsequently commanded the Unicorn frigate, on the West India station, and at the reduction of Monte Video, by Rear-Admiral Stirling, and Brigadier-General Auchmuty. He also assisted at the destruction of a French squadron in Aix Roads, April 11, 1809. His next appointment was to the Armicle of 38 guns, employed cruising off the French coast.
On the 4th May, 1801, Captain Hardyman sent .the boats of that ship, assisted by those of the Cadmus, Daring, and Monkey, to attack a number of the enemy’s armed and coasting vessels, at the isle of Rhé; thirteen of which were destroyed under a heavy fire from the batteries, and four others driven on shore[1].
Captain Hardyman was nominated a C.B. in 1815. He married, Dec. 29, 1810, Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late John Travers, Esq., of Bedford Place, London.
Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney, M.P.
CHRISTOPHER LAROCHE, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1800.]
Post commission dated Jan. 29, 1800.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
JOSHUA SYDNEY HORTON, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1800.]
This officer entered the naval service about 1781; was first
- ↑ See Captain Samuel Roberts.
valour of the British navy, of which, had Providence spared his life, he would have, become one of the brightest ornaments.
“His Majesty’s 76th regiment will form the funeral party, and attend the remains of Captain Cooke, with every mark of solemnity and. respect that is in their power to shew, from the house of Mr. Mnir, at Chouringhee, to the place of interment, at six o’clock this evening; and as there is no officer of the rank of Colonel with that corps, Colonel Greene is directed to parade with it on this occasion.
“During the procession, miuute guns are to be fired from Fort William, and the colours to be hoisted half staff high.”
Captain Cooke was the officer who undertook the hazardous negociatiou between Lord Hood and the Magistrates of Toulon, previous to the allied forces taking possession of that place in 1793. An account of his proceedings in the neighbourhood of Manilla one year previous to his death, will be found in our first volume, at p. 584, et seq. A monument to his memory was subsequently erected at Calcutta, by order of the Honorable Court of Directors.
