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to any officer of Captain Huskisson’s standing in the service, to have had a broad pendant on two stations, on each of which he held the command six months[1].
On the 23d Dec. 1820, Captain Huskisson was relieved by Sir Charles Rowley; and as his health was then much impaired he invalided, and returned home in the Sandwich packet[2]. In Sept. 1821, he obtained the command of the Semiramis 42, fitting for the flag of Lord Colville, with whom he continued on the Irish station till Mar. 16, 1822. His appointment to be Paymaster of the Navy took place in Mar. 1827.
The subject of this memoir married, in 1813, Miss E. Wedge, the youngest daughter of an eminent agriculturist, well known in the west of Staffordshire, by whom he has
- ↑ On being informed of the demise of Captain Arthur Stow, of the Tamar 26, whom he had recently ordered to Halifax, Commodore Huskisson appointed his first Lieutenant, Mr. Charles Peake, to command the Bann sloop, vacant by the removal of Captain Wilson B. Bigland to the Tamar; but on the arrival of the latter ship at Halifax, Rear-Admiral Griffith thought proper to fill up the death vacancy also. Hearing this, the Commodore wrote to the Admiralty, requesting their Lordships not to suffer him to be deprived of the patronage which so justly belonged to him, the vacancy having occurred whilst the Tamar was still within the limits of his command. The Board did not think proper to grant his request, but superseded all the appointments that had taken place, and gave the command of the Tamar to an officer then in England; at the same time paying off the sloop he commanded, in order to avoid promoting either of the Lieutenants selected by the Commodore and Rear-Admiral. Mr. Peake subsequently commanded the Euryalus for a short period; and on that ship being paid off, her crew presented him with a handsome silver vase and cover, and a sword and belt, as a testimony of their gratitude and esteem for his kindness, &c. &c. He is still a Lieutenant.
- ↑ In 1819, a dreadful sickness prevailed on board the Euryalus, to which many of her ship’s company became victims in the short space of six weeks. She also lost a Lieutenant and 5 other very fine young men belonging to the quarter-deck, one of whom was Mr. Joseph Thomas Marshall, brother to the author of this work. By the same packet that brought home an account of his death was received an unfinished letter from him, wherein he spoke of his commander in such terms, as induced his afflicted relatives to return their most grateful thanks to Captain Huskisson, for his parental kindness to the lamented youth.
