“fully acquitted him of all blame,” in not bringing the enemy’s frigate to action.
We shall only repeat the just observation of the Editor of the Naval Chronicle, that “this diabolical attempt to blast his reputation, could not have happened to a man whose tried and established character was better able to stand. His services, especially when commanding the gun-boat flotilla in the Scheldt, and when defeating Buonaparte’s designs at Boulogne, sufficiently prove his merits.”
On the 4th Mar. 1814, Captain Carteret, then in company with the Cygnus frigate, captured the Bunker’s Hill, American privateer (formerly H.M. brig Linnet) of 14 guns and 86 men. He was nominated a C.B. June 4, 1815; and about the same period appointed to la Desirée, from which frigate he removed, with his officers and crew, into the Active of 46 guns, on the 26th Oct. following. The latter ship was employed for some time on the Jamaica station, from whence she returned to England in 1817; since which period he has not been employed.
In Jan. 1822, Captain Carteret obtained the royal permission to assume the name of Silvester, in addition to his own patronymic; and he succeeded to the title now enjoyed by him, Mar. 30, in the same year, agreeably to his deceased uncle’s patent of baronetage[1].
Agent.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
JAMES JOHNSTONE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
Obtained post rank, Jan. 22, 1806; commanded Rear-Admiral Stopford’s flag-ship at the reduction of Java, in 1811; and was subsequently appointed Commissioner of the navy at Bombay.
- ↑ By the will of the late Sir John Silvester, who died Mar. 30, 1822, his freehold and copyholds in the county of Essex, are given to trustees for the use of Dame Harriet Silvester, relict of the said Baronet, during her life; and after her demise, to his nephew, Sir Philip Carteret Silvester, whose services we have been recording.
