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POST-CAPTAINS OF 1811.

sloop had, including 21 supernumeraries, 150 officers, men and boys; the American 173:– could Captain Greene have accepted the challenge he received, we are convinced that the result would not have been long dubious. The Bonne Citoyenne continued at St. Salvador until Jan. 26, 1813, when she sailed from thence under the protection of the Montagu 74: she arrived at Portsmouth in the month of April following.

Captain Greene’s son, an officer in the Hon.E.I. Company’s military service, died on his passage from Rangoon to Madras, Aug. 23, 1825, aged 26 years.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.



Hon. WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]

Fourth son of George, fourth Earl Waldegrave, by his first cousin, Elizabeth Laura, eldest daughter of James the second Earl, and half sister to H.R.H. the present Duke of Gloucester.

This officer obtained the rank of Lieutenant July 29, 1806, and commanded a division of boats at the capture and destruction of a French convoy, in the Bay of Rosas, Nov. 1, 1809[1]. On the 29th of the same month he arrived at the Admiralty with despatches from Lord Collingwood, and three days afterwards he appears to have been promoted. His post commission bears date Mar. 8, 1611.

Captain Waldegrave married, July 1812, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M.P. by whom he has several children.




THOMAS HUSKISSON, Esq.
Paymaster of the Navy.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]

Half-brother of the Right Hon. William Huskisson, late one of his Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State; and of Major-General Samuel Huskisson.