the Surly cutter; and in 1810, to the Mermaid revenue cruiser. He obtained the rank of commander, July 19th, 1831; and died at Harwich in 1834.
HENRY SMITH WILSON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained his first commission on the 9th Sept. 1799; served as senior lieutenant of the Unicorn frigate. Captain Lucius Hardyman; and commanded the boats of that ship at the capture of the French cutter privateer Tape-a-bord, of four guns and forty-six men, near the island of St. Domingo, May 6th, 1805. He subsequently commanded the Bahama prison ship and Surly cutter. His promotion to the rank of commander took place on the 19th July 1821.
SIMON HOPKINSON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant July 18th, 1801; and commander July 19th, 1821.
JOHN LITTLE, Esq.
Agent for His Majesty’s Post Office Steam Packets at Port Patrick.
[Commander.]
Son of the late Mr. Samuel Little, an American loyalist, and a master in the royal navy.
This officer was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia; and first went to sea with his father, in a merchant vessel belonging to that port, in 1791 . Early in the following year, he was wrecked on one of the Seal Islands, eight leagues from the west point of Nova Scotia, where he remained, with his parent and thirteen other persons, for fourteen days, with nothing to subsist on but a cat and a dog which fortunately happened to be washed on shore.
In 1793, Mr. John Little embarked on board the colonial brig Earl Moira, tender to the governor of Nova Scotia, commanded by Lieutenant Minchin, and principally employed in cruising against American smugglers. In 1795, he entered
