refuge on board that ship, at Lisbon, in May 1824, His promotion to the rank of commander took place Nov. 24th, 1826.
WILLIAM CARLETON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of the late General Carleton. Obtained his first commission on the 18th July, 1810; served during the latter part of the war with France, in the Royal George, first rate, Captain T. F. C. Mainwaring, on the Mediterranean station; and was promoted to the rank of commander, Dec. 2d, 1826. He married, in 1832, Rosamond, daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Orde, of Westwood Hall, Northumberland.
WILLIAM TUCKER (a), Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 26th Dec. 1822; and served with great credit under Commodore Bullen, on the African station, in 1824, 5, and 6.
On the 6th Sept. in the latter year, after capturing a beautiful Spanish schooner, the Nicanor, with 176 slaves on board. Lieutenant Tucker, then commanding the Maidstone’s tender, Hope, a schooner of five guns and twenty-six men, was ordered to scour the Bight of Benin, and examine more particularly Lago, Whydah, and Badagry. At Whydah there were no less than twelve vessels waiting for slaves; and one of these, a Brazilian brig of nine guns and seventy-six men, was taken by the Hope, after a gallant action of two hours and a half. A letter written by an officer of the squadron gives us the following particulars:–
