Captain Seymour’s next appointment was to the Manilla, the loss of which frigate will be noticed in our memoir of Captain John Joyce, who had been appointed to her pro tempore, in the absence of her proper commander.
From this period, we find no mention of Captain Seymour until the ensuing summer (1812) when he obtained the command of the Fortunée 36. About Jan. 1813, he removed into the Leonidas, another ship of the same force; and on the 23d May following, captured the American privateer Paul Jones, of 16 guns and 85 men, 5 of whom were wounded by his fire during the chase.
Captain Seymour was nominated a C.B., June 4, 1815; and in the year 1818, his uncle, the late Marquis of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain of the King’s Household, appointed him Serjeant-at-Arms to the House of Lords, an office vacant by the death of William Watson, Esq. F.R.S. He married, in 1811, Georgiana, second daughter of Admiral the Hon. George C. Berkeley, then commander-in-chief at Lisbon.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford and Son.
HON. GEORGE POULETT.
Receiver-General of the Land and Assessed Taxes in Somersetshire.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Second son of John, 4th Earl Poulett, K.T. by Sophia, only daughter of the late Admiral Sir George Pocock, K.B., and brother to the present Earl.
This officer was born May 13, 1786; made a Lieutenant, April 3, 1804; advanced to the rank of Commander Oct. 12, 1805; and posted July 31, 1806. He subsequently commanded the Quebec frigate on the North Sea station.
Captain Poulett married, Dec. 9, 1811, Catherine Sophia, eldest daughter of Sir George Dallas, Bart.
HUGH COOK, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Entered the naval service as a Midshipman on board the Pegase 74, commanded by Captain Sir Samuel Marshall,
