rienced during your command of his Majesty’s naval forces on this station. Your polite and ready attention to the desires of his Majesty’s subjects, to protect and promote the commerce of this and the neighbouring provinces, have been duly appreciated, and demand our sincere acknowledgments. And it is no less incumbent on us to bear testimony of your zeal and unceasing exertions in directing the efforts of his Majesty’s ships to repel the unprovoked and unexpected hostilities commenced by the government of America against his Majesty’s subjects, and which have been conspicuously manifested in the protection of our trade, and the numerous captures of the armed cruisers of the enemy. With sentiments of unfeigned esteem and respect, we wish you a pleasant passage home, and that approbation from our Sovereign, which is the highest and most grateful reward for honourable and faithful services[1].”
Towards the latter end of the same year, the Vice-Admiral hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief at Cork; and on the 2d Jan. 1815, he was nominated a K.C.B. Sir Herbert has a son a Lieutenant in the Navy.
SIR DAVIDGE GOULD,
Vice-Admiral of the Red; and Knight Commander of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath.
At the close of the American war, this officer commanded the Pachahunter, fire-vessel, on the Jamaica station. His post commission bears date Mar. 25, 1789. During the Spanish and Russian armaments, we find him in the Brune frigate, at the Leeward Islands; and at the commencement of hostilities against the French republic he was appointed to the Cyclops, in which vessel he served at the reduction of Corsica[2]. His next appointment appears to have been to the Bedford, a 74-gun ship, one of Vice-Admiral Hotham’s fleet,
- ↑ Of the events alluded to in the foregoing address we shall give a detailed account in our memoirs of Captains Arthur Batt Bingham, Richard Byron, &c.
- ↑ See p. 252.
