batteries of Flushing and Cadsand, on the 1st, 2d, and 3d Mar. 1814[1]. In the ensuing summer he escorted a large fleet of transports and merchantmen to the coast of America, from whence he returned at the commencement of 1815.
ROBERT JACKSON, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer obtained the rank of Lieutenant Nov. 22, 1790; and received the Turkish gold medal as a reward for his services on the coast of Egypt, during the celebrated campaign of 1801, at which period he commanded the Bonne Citoyenne corvette. On the 31st Dec. in the preceding year he captured a Spanish privateer of 10 guns and 80 men, near Minorca. His post commission bears date April 29, 1802. He subsequently served as Flag-Captain to Lord Keith in the Monarch, Ville de Paris, and San Josef.
Agent. Agent.– ___ Muspratt, Esq.
ROBERT BARRIE, Esq
A Companion of the most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; and acting Resident Commissioner at Kingston, in Upper Canada.
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
In 1791, this officer accompanied Captain Vancouver on a laborious and anxious voyage of discovery, an abridged account of which will be found at p. 200 et seq. of this volume. On his return from that expedition, in 1795, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; and we subsequently find him serving on board le Bourdelois of 24 guns, commanded by his old shipmate, the present Captain Thomas Manby, with whom he sailed for the West Indies at the close of 1800[2].
- ↑ See Naval Chronicle, Vol. 31, p. 193.
- ↑ The following is a copy of Captain Manby’s official letter respecting the two merchant vessels alluded to at p. 205:
“H.M.S. Bourdelois, off Teneriffe, Jan, 16, 1801.
“Sir,– On the 8th inst., off Palma, in a calm, I despatched two boats under the orders of Lieutenant Barrie, in pursuit of a strange sail in the S.E. At 2 P.M. after a fatiguing row of fourteen hours, he gallantly boarded her with only one boat, although opposed by 10 Frenchmen, who kept up a smart fire from four 4-pounders. She proved to be the Adventure of London, one of the vessels which had parted company in the
