men and Impressment; suggestions for decreasing the demand on public revenue, and the consumption of materials, by increasing the duration of ships and efficiency of the navy; syllabus of a work entitled Outlines for a Maritime History, &c. &c. He is said to have terminated his existence in the year 1826.
EDWARD WILLIAMS (b), Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained his first commission in 1796; served as lieutenant on board Nelson’s flag-ship, at the battle of Trafalgar; and was promoted to his present rank on the 24th Dec. 1805.
JOHN YULE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Served as one of Nelson’s lieutenants at the battle of Trafalgar; obtained his present rank on the 24th Dec. 1805; and was appointed to assist in superintending the Ordinary at Plymouth, June 27th, 1828.
JOHN LANGDALE SMITH, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was born in 1767; made a lieutenant in Nov. 1790; promoted to the rank of commander on the 14th Jan. 1806; and granted the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital in May, 1821. He died at Westminster, Oct. 30th, 1827, after a distressing illness of four years.
WILLIAM ROGERS, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was first lieutenant of the Diamond frigate. Captain Thomas Elphinstone, at the capture of the Spanish corvette Infanta Carlos, with a valuable cargo, and 120,000 dollars in specie, from the Havannah bound to Corunna, in Dec. 1801. He obtained his present rank on the 22d Jan. 1806; and subsequently acted as flag-captain to the late Sir Edwin H. Stanhope, in the Thisbe 28, armed en flûte, stationed in the River Thames.
