1798 Capt. Mackellar obtained an appointment to the Minerva frigate, armée en flûte, part of the force sent three months afterwards, under Sir Home Popham, to destroy the locks and sluice-gates of the Bruges Canal. In the execution of that service he distinguished himself in a very remarkable manner, and obtained the particular commendation of the military Commander-in-Chief, Major-General Coote; with whom, and the troops under his orders, he had the misfortune to be taken prisoner, owing solely to the circumstance of his having voluntarily remained on shore for the purpose of assuming command of a detachment of seamen who had unavoidably been left without an officer of sufficient rank to direct them, at a moment when the presence of one was absolutely necessary. Regaining his liberty in the course of the next Dec, Capt. Mackellar was rewarded for his conduct – after having held command for 14 weeks of the Wolverene sloop and Charon 44, on the Home and Mediterranean stations – by advancement to Post-rank 27 April, 1799. He continued some months in the ship last mentioned, performing during that period various particular services, and assisting at the evacuation of the Helder; and he was next, in Sept. 1800 and March, 1801, appointed to the Jamaica 26 and Terpsichore 32. In the former of those vessels he escorted a fleet of merchantmen to and from the Baltic, made one or two captures, and compelled a large privateer, commanded by the famous Blackeman, to lighten herself of her guns, &c., in order to effect her escape. On his removal to the Terpsichore, Capt. Mackellar was at first employed at the blockade of Boulogne and Calais, and then in the East Indies. While on that station in Dec. 1801, he volunteered, at a period when the Terpsichore was in a dismantled state, to take charge of an expedition, consisting of the Marquis Cornwallis of 48 guns, and several of the Hon. Company’s vessels, for the purpose of conveying a reinforcement of 1000 troops to the Portuguese settlements of Demaun and Diu. The able and successful manner in which he accomplished the objects of the mission elicited the high approbation and thanks of , the Bombay Government. His exertions in subsequently conveying a body of 3000 men from Goa to the relief of the Governor of that Presidency, Hon. Jonathan Duncan, when surrounded by his enemies at Surat, again procured him similar acknowledgments. He returned to England in 1802, having been latterly employed at the blockade of Goa, and was afterwards appointed – in May, 1804, to the agency for prisoners of war and transports, and the Governorship of the Naval Hospital at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he remained about six years – 2 Aug. 1815, to the s[c] 50, lying at Chatham – 11 Dec. following, to the Salisbury 58, bearing the flag at Jamaica of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas – and, 14 March, 1817, to the Pique 36, on the same station, whence he returned home (encountering on his passage an almost fatal hurricane) and was paid off in Dec. 1818. Previously to his departure, Capt. Mackellar received an address signed3by the Mayor and the heads of 49 commercial houses, expressive of the sense they entertained of the solicitude he had always evinced for the welfare of the trade of the island. He became a Rear-Admiral 27 May, 1825; a Vice- Admiral 10 Jan. 1837; and a full Admiral.
He is married, and has issue.
MACKENZIE. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p^ 10; h-p., 33.)
Alexander Mackenzie was born 30 June, 1790.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1804, as Pst.-cl. Vol., on board the Revenge 74, Capt. Robt. Moorsom, stationed in the Channel; and on becoming Midshipman of the Neptune 98, Capt. Thos. Fras. Fremantle, took part, 21 Oct. 1805, in the battle of Trafalgar. In Nov. 1806 he removed to the Phoebe 36, Capt. Jas. Oswald, in the boats of which frigate, it appears, he was frequently employed in destroying the enemy’s trade and signal-posts along the French shores, and also saw much service on the coast of Portugal. At the expirartion of two years he next, in Nov. 1808, joined the Lavinia 40, Capt. Lord Wm. Stewart, under whom, during the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, he assisted in forcing the passage between the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand, and participated in all the boat operations on the East and West Scheldt. After an attachment of 14 months to the Thames 32, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, and Cumberland 74, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, on the Mediterranean Station, where in the boats of the last-mentioned ship he served for two months in the Faro of Messina, and contributed to the capture and destruction of a large convoy in face of a body of troops in the Bay of St. Eufemia, Mr. Mackenzie was nominated, in Jan. 1811, Acting-Lieutenant of the Warrior 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, and was for some time employed with the flotilla at the defence of Cadiz. He was officially promoted 27 April following, and was subsequently appointed – 24 Aug. and 25 Sept. in the same year, to the Dispatch 18 and Colossus 74, Capts. Aberdour and Thos. Alexander, both on the Home station – and 4 March, 1814, as Senior, after an interval of six months, to the Cyane of 32 guns and 171 men, Capt. Gordon Thos. Falcon. On 20 Feb. 1815 it was his fate to be on board the latter vessel when taken, together with her consort, the Levant of 20 guns and 131 men, by the U.S. frigate Constitution of 54 guns and 469 men, at the end of a fierce conflict in which the Cyane, besides being cut to pieces, sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 13, including himself severely, wounded. We may add, that the captives, after having been plundered of all they possessed, were put on shore at Maranham, on the coast of Brazil, and there left to find their way home as best they could. Lieut. Mackenzie has since been on half-pay.
He married a daughter of J. Worth, Esq., of Worth House, co. Devon, and has issue two children.
M‘KENZIE. (Lieut., 1799. f-p.,22; h-p., 32.)
Charles M‘Kenzie was born 1 Aug. 1773.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the Quebec 32, Capt. Josias Rogers, and, after visiting the coast of Holland, accompanied the expedition under Vice- Admiral Sir John Jervis and General Sir Chas. Grey against the French West India islands, where he was wounded in the left shoulder during the landing at Fort Royal, Martinique. On his removal as Midshipman, in April, 1794, to the Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Thos. Rogers, he co-operated in the reduction of Ste. Lucie and Guadeloupe, and then returned with convoy to England. He was next, for a period of nearly two years, employed in the Channel, off the coast of Africa, and again in the West Indies, on board L’Espiègle 16, Capt. Benj. Roberts, and Sheerness 44, Capt. Simon M‘Kenzie; after which we find him, from Sept. 1796 until advanced to his present rank 9 Dec. 1799, commanding, with the rating of Master’s Mate, the Success gun-brig, on the Plymouth station. He joined, on the occasion of his promotion, the Cambridge 80, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Thos. Pasley; and was subsequently appointed – 15 Sept. 1800, to the Pique 36, Capts. Jas. Young and Wm. Cumberland, under the former of whom he assisted at the landing of the troops in Egypt in 1801 – 29 Oct. 1803, nine months after he had left the Pique, to the Malta 80, Capts. Edw. Buller, Wm. Shield, and Robt. Waller Otway, to which ship (with the exception of a short time passed in 1807 with Capt. Shield, as First-Lieutenant, in the Queen 98) he continued attached until Nov. 1808, participating during that period, and receiving a wound, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action – on 16 of the month last-mentioned, as Senior, to the Implacable 74, Capts. Geo. Chas. M‘Kenzie and Thos. Byam Martin, part of the force employed in embarking the army after the battle of Corunna – for a few months in 1814 (he had not been afloat
