the Sapphire 26, Captain Henry Hart, fitting out for the West India station, Aug. 26th, 1818; and we subsequently find him senior lieutenant of the Alacrity sloop, Captain G. J. Hope Johnstone, employed in the Mediterranean. On the 9th April 1826, and following day, the boats of the Alacrity, commanded by Lieutenant Triscott, made two very gallant attacks on, and succeeded in destroying, three Greek piratical vessels, near the island of Ipsara. Lieutenant Triscott and three seamen were severely wounded on this occasion; and Lieutenant John Wheatley, second of the Alacrity, very dangerously burnt. Forty of the Greeks were killed, and seventy taken prisoners in a tower which protected the vessels.
This officer was advanced to his present rank on the 22d Feb. 1830; and appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard in June, 1832. He married, in April, 1833, Eliza Jope, youngest daughter of R. J. Kinsman, Esq., of Falmouth, co. Cornwall.
ORLANDO GEORGE SUTTON GUNNING, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant into the Morgiana sloop. Captain William Finlaison, on the African station, Sept. 25th, 1821; and promoted to the command of the Infernal bomb, Feb. 26th, 1830. He returned home in that vessel, from the Mediterranean, May 27th, 1830; and was paid off, at Chatham, on the 11th June following.
WILLIAM HARWELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Mar. 1822; and commander on the 26th Feb. 1830.
GEORGE FULLER STOW, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 23d April, 1822; and promoted to the command of the Badger sloop, employed as a
