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WILLIAM WOLSELEY, ESQ.
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A considerable quantity of naval stores also fell into the hands of the British.

Towards the end of the same year, Captain Wolseley returned to England in the Imperieuse, and his next appointment appears to have been to the Impress service in Ireland, where he continued until February 1799, when he obtained the command of the Terrible, a 74-gun ship, attached to the Channel fleet. In the following year he accompanied the expedition against the French coast, under Sir John B. Warren[1]; and on his return from that service, was sent to join Vice-Admiral Dickson, who had sailed for Copenhagen with a strong squadron, to give weight to the remonstrances of the British Ambassador on the subject of examining neutral vessels[2].

Captain Wolseley was subsequently removed into the St. George of 98 guns; and at the conclusion of the war, in 1801, commanded the San Josef, a first rate; since which he does not appear to have served a-float. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, April 23, 1804; Vice-Admiral, Oct. 25, 1809; and Admiral, Aug. 12, 1819.

Our officer married Miss Moore, of Dublin.




SIR JOHN SUTTON
Admiral of the Blue; Knight Commander of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath.


This officer obtained the rank of Post-Captain, Nov. 28, 1782; and at the commencement of the French revolutionary war, was appointed to the Romulus, of 36 guns, in which ship he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where he removed into the Egmont, 74.

In the action between the British and French fleets, off Gourjon Bay, March 14, 1795, an account of which will be found under the head of Vice-Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, the Egmont sustained a loss of 7 men killed and 21 wounded, occasioned principally by the bursting of a gun on her main-