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successful exertions against their trade, that they actually offered a considerable reward for the capture of the Hero. For these services, he received the high approbation of his commander-in-chief. Sir James Saumarez; and was, we believe, recommended by that officer to the Admiralty.

Lieutenant Reynolds’s next appointment was, Jan. 13th, 1813, to be first of the Doris frigate, Captain Robert O’Brien, with whom he soon afterwards sailed for China. On the 28th Nov. following, he was removed to the Owen Glendower frigate, Captain Brian Hodgson, in the East Indies; where he received his commission as commander, dated Nov. 20th, 1815, and appointing him to the Hecate of 16 guns. According to e navy lists, he was afterwards successively nominated to the temporary command of the Elk 18, Cornwallis 74, and Conway 24, all on the same station; but we rather apprehend that the ships which he commanded there, pro tempore, were the Elk, Conway, and Volage 22. In Feb. 1828, he commissioned the Orestes 18, fitting out at Chatham for the Cork station, where he continued until advanced to the rank of captain, July 22d, 1830.

Captain Reynolds married Miss A. H. Decouerdoux, of Plymouth.

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HENRY ALGERNON ELIOT, Esq.
[Captain of 1830.]

Is descended from Sir William de Aliot, a Norman knight, of whom the following anecdote has been traditionally related.

When William the Conqueror first set foot on English land, he stumbled and fell; “but,” says Hume, “he had the presence of mind, it is said, to turn the omen to his advantage, by calling aloud that he had taken possession of the country; and a soldier, running to a neighbouring cottage, plucked some thatch, which, as if giving him seizin of the kingdom, he presented to his general.” Upon this. Sir William de Aliot, then holding a distinguished rank in the invading army, drew his sword, and swore, by the honor of a soldier, that he would maintain, at the ha-