He has another brother, Henry Edward, who was at the battle of Waterloo, and is now a captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Coldstream Guards.
GEORGE VERNON JACKSON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Eldest brother of Commander Caleb Jackson, R.N. This officer obtained his first commission on the 18th Aug. 1809; and was second lieutenant of the Junon 38, Captain John Shortland, when that frigate, after a noble defence, was captured and destroyed by a French squadron, to the N.E. of Guadaloupe, Dec. 13th, 1809[1]. He arrived at Brest on the 23d of the following month, in la Renommée frigate. Commodore Roquebert. From this period, we find no mention of him until July 1st, 1812, when he was appointed to the Indefatigable 44, Captain John Fyffe, in which ship he was serving subsequent to the peace with France in 1814. His next appointment appears to have been to the command of the Serapis, convalescent ship at Jamaica, Dec. 23d, 1818. He was promoted to his present rank on the 13th July, 1824; and returned home from the West India station, in command of the Pylades sloop, with the Bishop of Jamaica passenger, and a valuable freight of dollars and cochineal on merchants’ account, Feb. 10th, 1828.
ROBERT STUART, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained his first commission in Mar. 1812; and was a lieutenant of the Warspite 74, Captain Lord James O’Brien, at the close of the French war in 1814. He subsequently served under Captains William King and John Toup Nicolas, in the Leonidas 38, and Egeria 28, the latter ship successively employed at Newfoundland, in escorting King George IV. to Scotland, in the suppression of smuggling on the North Sea station, and in supporting the civil autho-
