Jenkin, the master; and afterwards beating a considerable way upon the flats, so that it was impossible to get her off. the evidence likewise imputed this disaster to the negligence of the Master, he having run beyond the proper distance before he hauled in for St. Helens, and not having anchored the ship at the time when the men at the leads declared, there was a material difference in the soundings; but those men differed in their reports. The evidence respecting Captain Faulknor and his Officers was highly creditable to themselves, and to the discipline of the ship in which they served. The room was cleared for an hour, when the Court adjudged the said Michael jenkin, in consideration of his having been deceived in the soundings, only to be dismissed from his Majesty's service and the said Captain Faulknor and his Officers to be honourably acquitted.

Nov. 20. His Majesty's ships sailed with convoys for the following places :Queen Charlotte, dmiral Lord Keith, the Mediterrangan bans Fareil, and 21-siphone, Captain Grant, the West Indies San Fiorenzo, Sir Harry Neale, Oporto; and Arethusa, Captain Wooley, Lishen, potet ma'y tahansa

I he whole number of the ships contained in the three fleets, was upwards of 300, and afforded a most magnificent spectacle of the present flourishing state of our trade and commerce.

The Alert Cutter, Lieutenant Inues, has taken a loop laden with coals. Fe ran her on shore about four files west of freeport, after a chace of three hours; the Lieutenant scnt a boat manned and armed, commanded by the boatswain, who carried out her, anchor to heave her off, amidst a heavy fire of musketry from the shore, and two field picces brought down from the Cliff, The Alert approached so near as to drive ah the French from the beach, and & thus effect the capture of the sloop.

Arrived the Ant schooner, Lieutenant Alt, from á cruise. On Sunday, "off Frighton, he fell in with a French privateer of 14 guns, in the act of boarding two colliers. He rescued the colliers, and chaced the privateer into Cher burgh.

The Pelter gun brig, Lieutenant John Walsh (second) Commander, from the Texel, having been ashore on the Dutch coast, was sent on Wednes day into this harbour for refitting, having lost her anchors, cables, and false beli

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She has brought I ieutenant Hill, of the Welch Fusileers. He was one of the twenty-five persons, and the only officer saved out of 529 that were on board the Voolk, a Dutch frigate wrecked in the night of the roth instant, on the island of Ameland. Among the above passengers were three companies of the said regiment. Lieutenant Hogart, who had got safe on a place of the wreck, died instantly in a state of delirium, caused by excess of joy, after exclaiming, "Thank God, my Lads, we are once agam safe on shore.”

Arrived the Fury, Captain Curry, from the Downs. He was one of the first ships in the late cxpedition to Holland, and sailed from thence the 17th Instant.

Arrived La Fomone, Captain Reynolds, from the Downs; and Venus, Captain Graves, from Halifax.

His Majesty's ship Aurora, Captain Caulfield, lately returned from the Mediterranean, is comic into the harboup to refit!

Hirondell privateer, taken by the Eurydice, Captain Talbot; is arrived at this port.

The Dragon, Captain Canyphell, and Magnificent, Captain Eowater, are ordered to fit and victual, for the Mediterranean. 10

Sailed the Sophia, Captain Burdett, lod a craises >

27. Arrived this day his Majesty's ships rince, Superb, Pompce, and Agamemnon, from the Channel feet, Under the command of Rear Admiral g Charles Cotton. Also, the Argo, Assurance, and Apollo frigates, from the epatward.

Earl St. Vincent, for the first time since his return from the Mediterra.

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Lord Clenawley, for the first time since the death' of his brother the late Earl Howe, and coming to the title as Baron Clenawley.

Vice Admiral Sir William Parker, on arriving from the Mediterranean, and Captain Mitford, of the Navy, on promotion, by his father, Sir John Mit ford.

Captains Digby and Young, of the Ethalion and Alemene frigates, engaged in taking the El Thetis and Santa Brigida Spanish prizes.

Nov 6. Captain Drummond, lately returned from the Mediterranean, by Lord Keith. Captain Wooley, of his Majesty's ship Arethusa, on his return from Halifax, having conveyed over his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent.-Captain Sir H. Popham, on his return from Holland. This Officer wore at his breast a brilliant diamond star, under an Imperial Crown, representing the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, with which he was knighted by the Emperor of Russia.

13. Admiral Barrington, on his promotion of General of Marines.-Captain M'Louall, of the Ganges man of war.-Captain Sir H. Popham took leave of his Majesty on setting off for the Court of Petersburgh, where he is to act as Inspector of the Russian forces.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

OCTOBER NOVEMBER.

Captain Drummond, of the Bull-dog bomb-vessel, who has just returned from the Mediterranean, is appointed a Post Captain.

Lieutenant Francis Mason, of the Alecto, is appointed First of the Beaver sloop, of 18 guns, Captain Christopher Basset Jones.

The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed Captain James Hanson, who sailed round the world with Vancouver, to the command of the Erazen sloop of war, now fitting at Portsmouth.

Edward Jekyll Canes, Esq. first lieutenant of his Majesty's ship Tigre, with fir Sydney smith, is promoted to the rank of Master and Commander

Lieutenant Osmar, late of the impregnable, is appointed to his Majesty's ship 1 ondon, of 98 guns.

The Rev.

Captain Syme.

Davis is appointed Chaplain of his Majesty's ship Puissant,

Lieutenant S. Halliday is appointed, by the Lords of the Admiralty, to the command of the Lady Charlotte hired schooner, of 12 guns,

MARRIAGES.

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER.

The 9th of July, in Naples Bay, on board the Fondroyant, William Comp ton, Esq. LL. D. Chancellor of Ely, the next collateral male relation of the Earl of Northampton, to the eldest daughter of the late Knipe Gobbet, Esq. Lieutenant Colonel of the West Norfolk Militia. The Lady was given away by the Right Hon. Lord Nelson.

Nov. 5. At Beddington, Rear Admiral Chechagoff of the Russian Navy, to Miss Proby, youngest daughter of the late Commissioner Proby, Some particulars of the life of the late Commissioner Proby are given in the present volume.

At St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth, by the Rev. J. Gandy, A. M. Captain Dashwood of the Sylph, of 18 guns, to the Hon. Miss De Courcy, daughter of Lord Kinsale of the kingdom of Ireland, and niece to the gallant Hon. Captain De Courcy of the Canada, of 74 guns, who so eminently distinguished self in, the Magnanime, of 44 guns, in the battle with Bompard's French squadron off the Rosscs, on the coast of Ireland, and the British fleet under Kear Admiral Sir J. B. Warren, Bart, and in many other gallant actions this

war.

OBITUARY.

OCTOBER NOVEMBER

O 10. At Chichester, after a long illness, Henry Chads, Esq. Captain in the Royal Navy, and regulating Officer of the Sea Fencibles on that coast.

On Sunday last was found in a small pond of water, in a field belonging to Mr. Lucas, near Stoke, the body of Lieutenant Hickman, of the Navy.18. Gregg, Esq. one of the Coroners for the County, held an Inquest on the body, and a verdict of Lunacy was returned.

16. At l'recoon, near Haverfordwest, Mrs. Johanna Vaughan, sister to the late Admiral Vaughan.

21. At his lodgings in Sackville-street, Lieut. H. Humphries, of the Royal Navy, one of the Officers who circumnavigated the globe with the late Captain Vancouver, in his Majesty's ship Discovery.

At Ham, Lady Lindsay, relict of the late Vice Admiral Sir John Lindsay, Knight of the Bath."

The 2adult. in Spa Fields, aged 34, Lieutenant Richard Caley, of the Royal Navy.

Captain Lancelot Skynner, of the Lutine frigate, 32 guns, lost in the North Seas. (Vide page 441). Made Fost in 1795. Commanded La Pique, 32 guns, in the West Indies, beginning of 1796—afterwards commanded the Ganges, 74 guns. Went out in the same year to the West Indies, in the Beaulieu.

Lieutenant Charles Aufrere, third son of Anthony Aufrere, Esq. of Hoveden Hall, in Norfolk. He was lost in the Lutine frigate.

Mr. Walter Montgomery, of Edinburgh, Surgeon of the Lutine, and one of the sufferers in that ship.

Mr. Robert Mardon, aged 19 years, Midshipman, a second son of Thomas Mardon, Esq. storekeeper at the island of Minorca.

At his house, Nottingham-place, London, the 7th inst. Thomas Lennox Frederick, Esq. He was made Post-Captain in 1779, and a Rear Admiral in 4797, and commanded the Princess Royal in the memorable victory gained by Lord St. Vincent, on the 14th of February, in the sanie year.

By letters received from Halifax, . He was a very zealous officer, and was to stare the death of Captain

Allen, Commander of the Termagant." some time First Lieutenant in the Royal William, under Admiral Sir P. Parker, from which he was promoted to a Captain.

Drowned, in the Lutine Frigate, on the coast of Holland, Lieutenant Kinmeer, son of Captain Kinmeer, of the Royal Navy-he was a young gentleman of great promise in his profession. His father first learnt the melancholy tidings of the premature death of an only boloved son, by seeing it in a newspaper accidentally. The shock can be conceived, but not described. Saturday, 23d November 1799, at his house in Henrietta-street, Bath, Mark Robinson, Esq. senior Rear-Admiral on the list of the Royal Navy, and a gentleman of the most distinguished merit in his profession. He was born on St. Mark's Day, 1722, O. S. and at the age of fourteen entered into the service qf his country. The exertions and consequent distinctions of this gallant veteran merit a brief detail. He was actively engaged in most of the combats under the command of Sir Peter Warren, and Lord Hawke. As Commander of the Falcon, his conduct and bravery were eminent and conspicuous at the reduction of Guadaloupe, where his ship sunk under him. He was afterwards appointed to the command of the Towey on the coast of America, where he had the satisfaction of preserving Charlestown from the effects of an alarming conflagration; a service, for which the merchants of South Carolina expressed their gratitude by a public vote of thanks, dated January 14, 1771, and a very large piece of plate, bearing a suitable inscription. Under ford Keppel he commanded the Worcester; whence he was transferred to the Shrewsbury, in which ship he led the British fleet five times into action. In the last of these engagements off the Capes of Virginia, he was disabled by a severe wound in the hip, and the loss of a leg.

THE

THE LATE

CAPTAIN JAMES ALMS, SEN.

All my delight on deedes of armes is sett,
To hunt out perilles and adventures hard,
By Sea, by Land, whereso they may be mett,
Onely for Honour and for high regard,
Without respect of richesse or reward:
For such intent, into these partes I came,
Withouten Compasse, or withouten Card.

SPENSER.

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HE Fame of Captain Alms must ever live in the page Naval History; the steady valour, which so ably opposed the experience, and terrible fire, of a superior enemy, has united its animating influence, with those instances of patriot courage, which gradually have tended to establish the Supremacy of the British Navy.

Mr. James Alms, the youngest son of John, and Mary Alms, was born on the 15th of July, O. S. (1728) at Gosport; a town which has enjoyed the honour of sending into the Navy, some of the first characters in the Service. Mr. Alms's father was of Bedfordshire, and served in the Royal Navy, during the reigns of King William, and Queen Anne in Queen Anne's war †, he commanded a Spanish

* This biographical Memoir is principally taken from the MSS. of the late Edward Ives, Esq. of Titchfield, Hants,Jauthor of an History of the East Indies, Travels over Land by the Way of Bassora, &c. This gentleman was long an intimate friend, and fellow sufferer with Captain Alms.

+ Abstract of the ROYAL NAVY, as it stood at the death of the Queen:

prize galleon, that had been commissioned, and of which he was appointed Captain.

The elder brother of Mr. James Alms was bred a seaman; and for a number of years was master of the commissioners yacht at Portsmouth. James, though the youngest, seems to have been destined by Providence to be the foster-father of his parents' numerous family, to which were added the children of his brother John; who at his death left two daughters, and a son *, named James, now a Post Captain in the Navy.

The education of Mr. James Alms, the subject of the present memoir, was principally conducted by his elder brother; between whom there was a great disparity of years. Introduced by the latter into The Service, Mr. James Alms continued for some time under his brother's immediate care : but the uniformity of such a station, not being adapted to his enterprising spirit; and perhaps impelled by

"Such wind, as scatters young men thro' the world.
To seek their fortunes farther than at home,
Where small experience grows"--

the unpatronised sailor boldly launched his bark, upon the wide Ocean of Life, as Spenser so beautifully describes it, in the lines already cited

"Withouten Compasse, or withouten Card.”.

Leaving his brother, in rather an abrupt manner, he embarked in (1741) on board a Merchant Vessel, and sailed for Minorca. On his arrival there, he happened to meet with a friend of his brother Benjamin, who earnestly besought him to seek his fortune in the King's Service; and gave him such good and prudential advice, as laid the foundation of his future independence.

The second son of Mr. John Alins, Benjamin, who was a Lieutenant in the Navy, died some years previous to his father.