The Vengeur arrived at Spithead from the Mediterranean, March 29, 1821; and being found defective, was paid off at Sheerness May 18th following; on which day Captain Maitland commissioned the Genoa 74, as a guard-ship at that port, where he continued until Oct . 3d in the same year: on which day he was superseded by Sir Thomas Livingston, in consequence of his having completed the usual period of service on the peace establishment. Previous to their separation, the Midshipmen of the Genoa presented him with a very elegant sword, as a mark of their respect and esteem.
Captain Maitland married, in April 1804, Catherine, second daughter of Daniel Connor, Esq., of Ballybricken, in the county of Cork. He was nominated a Companion of the Bath in 1815[1].
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
SIR JAMES BRISBANE, KNT.
A Companion of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1801.]
This officer is the fifth son of the late Admiral John Brisbane, and a brother of the present Sir Charles Brisbane, K.C.B.[2] He was born in 1774; entered the naval service as a Midshipman on board the Culloden 74, Captain Thomas Rich, during the Dutch armament of 1787; and in the spring of the following year, was removed into the Andromeda frigate, commanded by H.R.H. Prince William Henry, (now Duke of Clarence), under whom he served till that ship was put out of commission in 1789[3]. He then joined the Southampton 32, commanded by the late Sir Andrew Snape Douglas; which ship, as we have already stated, was the first his late Majesty ever went to sea in[4].
- ↑ Captain Maitland received the Turkish gold medal, for his conduct during the campaign in Egypt, 1801.
- ↑ See vol. I. p. 730.
- ↑ The Andromeda was employed on the Halifax and West India stations; but ordered home from the latter, in consequence of our late monarch’s alarming indisposition, in 1789.
- ↑ See Vol. I. note †, at p. 706. N.B. The Southampton was subsequently commanded by Captain (now Sir Richard G.) Keats; see id. p. 342.
