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POST-CAPTAINS OF 1810.

entered at the head of the Imperial troops, in the midst of general acclamations.

The Joachim and Capri were afterwards conducted to Malta by the Alcmene, which frigate Captain Coghlan paid off; at Deptford, in Nov. 1815. He at present commands the Forte 44, on the South American station.

This gallant and zealous officer married Mrs. Marshall, widow of Captain John Marshall, R.N. and daughter of Charles Hay, of Jamaica, Esq. a connection of the Errol family. His nephew, Francis Rogers Coghlan, is a Lieutenant R.N.

Agent.– John P. Muspratt, Esq.



THOMAS FRANCIS CHARLES MAINWARING, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]

This officer was made a Lieutenant by Sir Roger Curtis, at the Cape of Good Hope, in 1800; from which period we find him successively serving under Captains William Hotham, Lord Mark Kerr, and Thomas Dundas; in the Adamant 50, Fisgard 38, and Naiad of similar force; on the Cape, Channel, and Mediterranean stations. In the latter frigate he witnessed the defeat of the combined fleets off Cape Trafalgar; and afterwards assisted in rescuing one of our dismasted ships from destruction[1]. His commission as a Commander bears date Jan. 31, 1806.

Captain Mainwaring’s first appointment was, to the Tartarus sloop, fitted as a fire-ship; and in Aug. 1807, he appears to have been charged with the landing of the troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley (now Duke of Wellington) in Wibeck bay, preparatory to the investment of the Danish capital.

Early in 1808, Captain Mainwaring was appointed pro tempore, to the Vanguard 74, which ship was the first of her class that ever wintered in the Baltic. He retained the command of her until June following, and then rejoined the Tartarus.