One of those gentlemen, the present Captain J. W. Gabriel, on his health being drank, returned thanks in the following terms:
“Gentlemen,– I cannot express my gratitude for the honor which you have done me; but I conceive it to be my duty, and feel it to be my highest pleasure, to testify to the justice of the approbation you have bestowed upon the gallant services of my old commander. You are well acquainted with his merit: nothing can surpass his conduct in warlike achievements; but his private character is no less worthy your applause than his public services. This you will acknowledge, when I give you a recital of his generous actions. On board he was at much more expense in support of the sick, than in the maintenance of his own table. When we have put into a port where the rate of exchange was against us, he has told the Midshipmen not to draw bills upon home, but come into his cabin, where there was a bag of dollars at their service. Frequently, when the ship was putting to sea, and the sailors’ wives were ordered out of her, has he directed his steward to give them a guinea each. On all occasions he has sacrificed his own interests to those of his officers and crew. To Captain Barrie I am indebted for my advancement; and so attached did I feel to him, that I have frequently requested he would not make application to the Admiralty for my promotion, in order that I might continue to have the pleasure of serving under his command.”
Captain Barrie was nominated a C.B. in June 1815; and appointed to superintend the naval establishment at Kingston, Upper Canada, in 1819. He married, Oct. 24, 1816, Julia Wharton, sixth daughter of the late Sir John Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley, co. York, and Kettlethorpe Park, in Lincolnshire.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
CHARLES BAYNE HODGSON ROSS, Esq
A Companion of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer, a son of the late Lieutenant Ross, R.N., received his first commission in 1796, and was advanced to the rank of Commander in 1800. Towards the latter end of the same year he had the misfortune to be wrecked in the Diligence, a brig of 18 guns, on the Honda bank, near Cuba; but happily his officers and crew were all saved by the Thunderer 74.
Captain Ross obtained post rank Oct. 15, 1802; and sub-
