I send a flag down to you for the purpose of receiving those men, and avail myself of this opportunity to thank you for your attention and humanity to the unfortunate. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
“P.S. Dr. Ray goes with the flag to attend the wounded men, should there be any necessity.”
“To Captain Richard Byron,
H.B.M.S. Belvidera.”
The Belvidera subsequently captured the United States’ schooner Vixen, pierced for 18 guns; and destroyed the Mars privateer, carrying 15 guns and 70 men. She also recaptured the Nocton, a Falmouth packet, which had been taken by the Essex frigate on the coast of Brazil. She was paid off at the latter end of 1814; and Captain Byron received the insignia of a C.B, as a reward for his meritorious services in 1815.
The subject of this memoir married, Sept. 23, 3801, a daughter of the late James Sykes, Esq., Navy Agent, of Arundel Street, Strand, London, and by that lady has four sons, viz. Richard, a passed Midshipman, now serving on board the Spartiate 76, bearing the flag of Sir George Eyre, commander-in-chief in South America; James, an Ensign in the 8th, or King’s regiment; John, a student at Exeter College, Oxford; and William, at Emanuel College, Cambridge.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
WILLIAM YOUNG, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was a Midshipman on board the Portland, of 50 guns, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral James Young, on the West India station and served in her tender under the orders of Mr. (now Captain) George F. Ryves, at the commencement of the first American war[1]. He obtained a Lieutenant’s commission in 1783; and served as principal Agent of Transports during the Egyptian campaign, at the close of which he received the gold medal of the Turkish Order of the Crescent, and was presented by the Masters of
