find him superintending the equipment of the Britannia, a first rate. In May 1804, he obtained the command of l’Argus sloop, from which vessel he removed to the Sabrina of 18 guns, about Oct. 1806; the latter he commanded during the Walcheren expedition, in 1809.
Captain Kittoe’s post commission bears date Jan. 4, 1810. In July foHowing he was appointed to the Milford 74, flagship of Sir Richard G. Keats, under whom he served at Cadiz, during the memorable defence of that important place[1]; and afterwards in the Hibernia 110, on the Mediterranean station. His last appointment was, Dec. 20, 1814, to the Astraea 42, which frigate he commanded on the coast of France, until the final termination of hostilities in 1815.
RICHARD ARTHUR, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1810.]
Brother of Colonel George Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman’s Land; and of the late John Arthur, Esq. Collector of the Customs at Plymouth.
This officer entered the navy, in 1790, as a midshipman on board the Valiant 74; and at the commencement of the French revolutionary war, we find him proceeding in the Heroine frigate. Captain (afterwards Lord) Gardner, to the West Indies; where he served on board various ships until confirmed as a Lieutenant, about Feb. 1800. He also obtained the rank of Commander on the same station, in 1805.
Captain Arthur commanded the Vesuvius bomb, forming part of the British advanced squadron before Copenhagen, when repeatedly attacked by the Danish flotilla, in Aug. 1807[2] .His next appointment was, about April, 1808, to the Cherokee brig, mounting 8 eighteen-pounder carronades and 2 long sixes, with a complement of 65 officers, men, and boys. On the 11th Jan. 1810, he addressed an official letter to the
- ↑ See Captains Sir Thomas Fellowes, Frederick Jennings Thomas, and William Henry Smyth.
- ↑ See Suppl. Part I., p. 239.
