London with a sword, accompanied by an appropriate speech from the Lord Mayor; and partook of a banquet prepared for him by the Ironmonger’s Company, who are the trustees of an estate of 2,000l. per annum, bequeathed many years ago by one of their members, a Mr. Betton, who had had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the pirates, for the ransom of British captives who may chance to be enslaved by any of the Barbary States. It is here necessary to remark, that the Company have religiously obeyed the injunctions of the humane testator, and commissioned a regular agent at Mogadore for the purpose.
In addition to these public marks of approbation, the officers employed under his orders at Algiers presented his Lordship with a piece of plate, of massy size and elegant workmanship, as a mark of their admiration of his conduct. It was made by Rundell and Co., London, and cost 1,400 guineas. The residue of the sum subscribed to purchase it, was handed over to that excellent, though by no means duly appreciated institution, the Naval Charitable Society. Lord Exmouth had before received from the Flag-Officers and Captains who served with him in the Mediterranean during the late war, a handsome table ornament, of the value of 500 guineas, which they requested him to accept as a token of their respect and regard.
On the demise of Sir John Thomas Duckworth, in the autumn of 1817, his Lordship was appointed to the chief command at Plymouth, where he continued with his flag in the Impregnable, of 104 guns, until Feb. 1, 1821. He was nominated a G.C.B. previous to the Algerine expedition.
Lord Exmouth married, about the year 1783, Susan, daughter of James Frowde, of Knowle, in Wiltshire, Esq. Two of his sons are Captains in the R.N.; a third is a Prebendary of Canterbury, and has lately been united to a daughter of Viscount Sidmouth. One of the noble Admiral’s daughters is the lady of Vice-Admiral Sir L. W. Halsted; and another of Captain Richard Harward, R.N.
A portrait of his Lordship by W. Owen, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1819.
