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consorts, the Elizabeth, Eagle, Tremendous, Weazle, and Wizard, amounted to 7 killed and 25 wounded.

Captain Markland resigned the command of the Milford, Oct. 31, 1813; and returned home with despatches from Rear-Admiral Freemantle, on the 11th Dec. following. He was nominated a C.B. in June 1815 ; and subsequently presented with the cross of the order of Leopold, “in testimony of his Imperial Majesty’s approbation of the distinguished services rendered by him at the capture of Trieste, and the other operations in Italy, during the campaign of 1813.” Since his return home, he has had his left hand shattered by the bursting of a fowling piece.

This officer married. Mar. 8, 1814, Helen Ellery, daughter of L. D. G. Tregonwell, of Cranborne Lodge, co. Dorset, Esq., by which lady he has two sons and two daughters living.

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WILLIAM FISHER, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]

Commanded the Cornwallis frigate at the capture of the Isle of France.^[1] His post commission bears date April 18, 1811. Since the peace he has commanded the Bann of 20 guns, and Cherub 24; the latter employed on the African station. The following article appeared in the Hampshire Telegraph of Feb. 5, 1827:

“No part of our naval economy has been less attended to, and none needs so much attention, as the necessity that constantly exists in foreign, and even on home stations, of keeping up a supply of fresh water for our men of war. The loss of lives in this arduous part of the service is immense, from fatigue, from accidents, from diseases incident to their long exposure to wet, and from the facilities which it affords the seamen of straggling, and getting intoxicated. Capt. William Fisher, R.N. has succeeded in inventing an apparatus for this purpose, which does not require that the water casks should he removed from out of the boats, but by means of which they may he filled at the rate of a ton of water in four minutes. The apparatus consists, simply, of a forcing pump with a five-inch cylinder, which may be carried by two men, in a hand-barrow, to a

1. See Vol. I. Part II, p. 631, et seq.