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captains of 1830.

on the 11th of the ensuing month. During the last year of the war between Great Britain and America, he served as senior lieutenant of the Saturn 56, Captain James Nash; and subsequently, in the same capacity on board the Northumberland and Vigo, 74’s, bearing the flags of Sir George Cockburn and Rear-Admiral Lambert, at St. Helena, where he received his commission as commander, dated Jan. 29th, 1821, the first anniversary of the accession of King George IV[1]. From this period he remained on half-pay until May 12th, 1827, when he was appointed to the Ocean 80, Captain Patrick Campbell, C.B., then stationed as a guard-ship at Plymouth, afterwards employed in withdrawing the British troops from Portugal, and subsequently forming part of the Mediterranean squadron. He continued in the Ocean until &he was paid off. May 15th, 1830. His promotion to the rank of captain took place on the 22d July following.

Agents.– Sir F. M. Ommanney & Son.



EDWARD SPARSHOTT, Esq.
[Captain of 1830.]

Was signal mate of Lord Gambier’s flag-ship, the Caledonia 120, during the operations against the French squadron in Aix Roads, in April 1809, and served during the remainder of the war as lieutenant on board the Niobe frigate, successively commanded by Captains John Wentworth Loring and William Augustus Montagu[2]. His subsequent appointments were, – Aug. 8th, 1814, to the Forester sloop. Captain William Hendry; – Oct. 15th, 1815, to the Myrmidon 20, Captain Robert Gambier; – Dec. 28th, 1816, to the Tagus 42, Captain J. W. Deans Dundas; – Aug. 26th, 1818, to be first lieutenant of the Rochfort 80, fitting out for the flag of Sir Thomas F. Fremantle, commander-in-chief on the Mediterranean station; – Jan. 11th, 1820, to the Revolutionnaire 64, Captain the Hon. F.B.R. Pellew; – April 15th, 1820, again to the Rochfort, in which ship he continued, under the flag of