plate, each worth 200 pounds, as a reward for the services he had thus rendered to their interest[1].
Captain Waller’s post commission bears date Jan. 8, 1801. He subsequently commanded the Daedalus of 32 guns; which ship returned to England and was paid off in the summer of 1803. From the time of his joining the Rose frigate on the Newfoundland station (1789), to this period, he had never been a day out of active service. His next appointment was pro tempore, to the Norge 74; and at the conclusion of the war, we find him fitting out the Sceptre, of similar force. His brother, John, commanded the Serpent sloop of war, and was lost with all his crew on the West India station, in 1807.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
HENRY VANSITTART, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1801.]
This officer is a son of George Vansittart, Esq., formerly M.P. for Berkshire (which county he represented many years), by Sarah, daughter of the late Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, Bart.
He was born at Bisham Abbey, near Marlow, co. Berks; entered the naval service under the protection of the late Admiral Sir George Bowyer[2]; and served his time as a Midshipman on board the Pegasus of 28 guns, commanded by Captain William Domett, on the Newfoundland station; Hannibal 74, Captain John Colpoys, in the Channel; Romney 50; and Princess Royal 98, bearing the flag of the late Admiral Goodall; l’Aigle frigate, Captain Samuel Hood; and Victory of 100 guns, the flag ship of Lord Hood; the four latter ships employed in the Mediterranean, from whence he returned to England at the latter end of 1794.
During the siege of Toulon by the republican army, Mr. Vansittart, although very young, was allowed, after repeated entreaties, to serve as a volunteer in a floating battery, where
- ↑ L’Adele was purchased for the Hon. East India Company, and la Gloire for the King. The latter was a very fine ship, and had left the Isle of France with 190 men on board. During her cruise, she took six British merchantmen, and sunk several others. Seven of her crew were killed and 15 wounded, before she surrendered to the Albatross.
- ↑ See Vol. I. note * at p. 720.
