Sound, with a fleet destined to attack Copenhagen, he proceeded with the same nobleman to join the expedition; and after the surrender of the Danish navy, had the charge of fitting out one of the captured frigates, which was conducted safely to the river Medway, by part of the Africaine’s crew. Towards the close of the same year, he accompanied a small armament under Sir Samuel Hood, sent to obtain possession of Madeira; the garrison of which island surrendered without resistance on the 26th Dec. He has since commanded the Defiance, Conqueror, Spencer, and Albion, third rates. The latter ship was put out of commission, May 31, 1822.
Agent.– J. Hinxman, Esq.
JOHN MACKELLAR, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
This officer, a descendant from an old and highly respectable family in Argyleshire, is the eldest son of the late General Patrick Mackellar, a Colonel of the Royal Engineers, by Miss Elizabeth Basaline, of Minorca, on which island he was born about 1768[1]. He entered the naval service as a Midship-
- ↑ General Mackellar was descended from the Lairds of Main and Dale, where the family possessed considerable landed property. His eminent services at the reduction of Quebec, the Havannah, and other places, are thus alluded to by General Mercer, of the same corps, in a letter addressed to Captain John Mackellar, dated at Plymouth, Jan. 29, 1803:
“Dear Sir.– As I had the happiness of serving under your late father, for upwards of eleven years, it gives me much pleasure to comply with your wish, and to state my real sentiments of his character in public and private life. The late Colonel Mackellar, of the corps of Royal Engineers, was, in all respects, a most excellent and moral man. He was an accomplished gentleman and scholar, and a most excellent officer. He had seen much, and to him, most honorable service; and, as a professional man, we had not then, nor do I now believe we can produce, his equal in point of general knowledge. He was Chief Engineer, under General Wolfe, at Quebec; and his professional ability, and unremitted exertions, were, in a great measure, the means of preventing that place from falling into the
to evacuate Stralsund and retire to the island of Rugenj from whence he proceeded to Carlscrona in a Swedish ship of war, accompanied by the British sloop Rosamond, commanded by the present Captain J. W. Deans Dundas, who had been for some time stationed in Pert Bay, for the purpose of receiving his Majesty, in the event of his being obliged to abandon the capital of Pomerania.
