the Pandora sloop, Captain Charles G. Randolph, fitting out for the Cork station, where he continued until Oct. in the same year; and, Aug. 29th, 1820, to the Sybille frigate, intended for the flag of Sir Charles Rowley, on the Jamaica station, where he was promoted to the command of the Bustard, a 10-gun brig, Jan. 14th, 1822; and removed from that vessel to the Scout 18, on the 12th June following.
In May, 1823, the Scout ran on a reef of rocks in the Gulf of Mexico, was obliged to throw all her guns overboard, and would probably have been lost but for the assistance rendered to her by the Grecian cutter. Lieutenant (now Commander) John Cawley. She returned home, and was paid off, in the summer of 1825.
Commander Wigston’s next appointment was, Jan. 22d, 1829, to be second captain of the Warspite 76, fitting out at Plymouth for the flag of Rear-Admiral (now Sir Thomas) Baker, with whom he proceeded to South America, where we find him serving when advanced to his present rank, July 22d, 1830.
Agents.– Messrs. Stilwell.
GEORGE FREDERICK RYVES, Esq.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Captain of 1830.]
Eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Ryves, by Catherine Elizabeth, third daughter of the Hon. James Everard Arundel, father of the ninth Lord Arundel.
This officer passed his examination, at Plymouth, in Oct. 1810; obtained a lieutenant’s commission on the 24th of the following month; served during the latter part of the war with France, in the Pomone 38, Captain Philip Carteret; and was subsequently appointed as follows: – In May, 1814, to the Magicienne 30, Captain the Hon. William Gordon; – Sept. 10th following, to the Clorinde 40, then commanded by Captain Thomas Briggs, but afterwards by Captain Samuel George Pechell, with whom he returned home from the Mediterranean, and was paid off, in the summer of 1810; –
