July 19th, 1821. His last appointment was, in Jan. 1833, to be secretary to Sir Michael Seymour, then a Rear-Admiral, with whom he sailed from Plymouth for the South American station, in the Spartiate 78, Captain Robert Tait, on the 25th of the following month.
This officer married, Dec. 4th, 1814, the only daughter of Captain Richard R. Bowyer, R.N.
THOMAS LOWTON ROBINS, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was a midshipman on board the Arrow sloop, Commander Richard Budd Vincent, when that vessel was captured, after a most heroic defence, by the French frigate Incorruptible, Feb. 1805[1]. He obtained a lieutenant’s commission on the 22d Oct. following; suffered shipwreck in the Manilla 36, Captain John Joyce, on the Haak sands, near the Texel, Jan. 28th, 1812[2]; continued a prisoner in Holland and at Verdun until the conclusion of the war in 1814; and was promoted to the rank of commander on the 19th July 1821.
MARK HALPEN SWENEY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Entered the royal navy in 1798. He was made a lieutenant on the 22d Jan. 1806; appointed first of the Benbow 74, Captain R. H. Pearson, in Dec. 1813; granted a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum, for wounds, Oct. 10th, 1816; subsequently employed in the coast blockade service, under Captain William M‘Culloch; promoted to the rank of commander in July 1821; appointed to the Gannet sloop, Nov. 22d, 1830; and to the Vernon 50, fitting out for the flag of Sir George Cockburn, commander-in-chief on the West India and North American stations, April 27th, 1833. He succeeded to the temporary command of that ship, vice Captain Sir George Augustus Westphal, invalided, in June 1834.
