Queen Charlotte, a first rate, bearing the flag of Sir George Campbell, at Portsmouth.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
JOHN BROUGHTON, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1801.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant in 1789; and during the latter part of the French revolutionary war, he commanded the Strombolo bomb, and Florentina frigate, on the Mediterranean station. His post commission bears date Aug. 3, 1801.
In 1807, we find Captain Broughton cruising in the Meleager frigate, for the protection of our Greenland whale fishery; on which service he accompanied Captain Broke of the Shannon, to the latitude of 80° 6' N.[1] He afterwards served on the Jamaica station, and there captured a Spanish letter of marque, laden with dry goods, brandy, and wine. His subsequent appointmente were to the Indefatigable of 46 guns, and Cornwall 74.
Agent.– M‘Inerheny, Esq.
HONORABLE
GEORGE HENEAGE LAWRENCE DUNDAS.
A Companion of the most Honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1801.]
This officer is the fourth son of the late Lord Dundas, by Lady Charlotte Wentworth, sister of Earl Fitzwilliam[2].
On the 17th March, 1800, a most melancholy accident happened to the Queen Charlotte of 100 guns, in which ship Mr. Dundas was then serving as a Lieutenant. Proceeding from Leghorn to reconnoitre the island of Cabrera, and when about three or four leagues distant from the former place, she was discovered to be on fire. Every possible assistance was immediately forwarded from the shore; but a number of boats, it seems, were deterred from approaching her, in consequence of the guns going off when heated, and discharging their contents in all directions. The carpenter, who was one of
- ↑ See p. 369.
- ↑ Thomas Lord Dundas died June 14, 1820.
