serving as first of the Pactolus frigate, Captain the Hon. Frederick W. Aylmer. He obtained his present rank on the 25th Oct. 1827; and was appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard, July 8th, 1830.
JOSEPH NIAS, Esq.
[Commander.]
Passed his examination in April 1814; and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, on his return from the Arctic regions, in the Hecla, commanded by the enterprising Parry, Dec. 26th, 1820[1]. On the 1st of the following month, he was appointed senior lieutenant of the Fury, in which ship he served under the same officer until paid off, at Deptford, Nov. 14th, 1823[2]. His advancement to the rank of commander took place Nov. 11th, 1827.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON (b), Esq.
[Commander.]
Entered the royal navy in 1803; passed his examination in the beginning of Feb, 1810; was made a lieutenant on the 20th of that month; and subsequently served in the Lynx sloop. Captain John Willoughby Marshall, on the North Sea station. He was afterwards successively appointed to the Sarpedon sloop, Fortunée frigate, and Erne of 20 guns, in which ship we find him serving under Captain (now Lord) Napier, at the close of the war with France, in 1814. lie next joined the Isabella hired ship. Captain John Ross, fitting out for a voyage of discovery in the Arctic regions; and in May 1820, the Conway 26, Captain Basil Hall, from which ship he was removed to the Creole 42, Captain the Hon. Frederick Spencer, on the South American station, Dec. 2d, 1821. He was flag-lieutenant to Sir Thomas M. Hardy, when that officer escorted a body of troops to Lisbon, for the purpose of supporting the Portuguese constitu-
