shows, that his conduct, as all similar conduct ought, excited the notice of those to whom the power belonged of dispensing rewards to the brave and meritorious.” The service in question, viz. the storming of a tower, and cutting out of two vessels, laden with sugar, was performed in the manner Mr. James has stated, but under the directions of Lieutenant James Oliver, who did not obtain the rank of commander until Dec. 4th, 1813.
ALEXANDER KENNEDY (a), Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in April, 1806; advanced to his present rank in June, 1809; and dismissed from the command of the Forrester sloop, by sentence of a court-martial, for disobedience of the orders of Rear-Admiral William Brown, commander-in-chief on the Jamaica station, April 26th, 1814. In the preceding year, while accompanying the trade from England, he assisted at the capture of an American privateer.
ROBERT TUCKER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was born at Devonport, on the 7th Feb. 1769; and had his name entered on the books of the Boyne 70, commanded by the late Admiral Herbert Sawyer, in 1777. We first find him serving in an hired armed vessel, the Three Brothers; and, in 1785, he appears to have joined the Weazel sloop. Captain (afterwards Sir Samuel) Hood, then employed in surveying the coasts and harbours within the limits of the Halifax station.
On the completion of this service, about May, 1788, Mr. Tucker was removed to the Pegasus 28, Captain (now Sir Herbert) Sawyer, on the Newfoundland station; which ship he left, in order to rejoin Captain Hood, who had been appointed to the Juno 32, in the summer of 1790. The ships in which he subsequently served, as midshipman and master’s-mate, were the Diana frigate, Captain Thomas Macnamara
