this service; and I confided the execution of it to an officer of reputation.”
The total loss sustained by the British on this disastrous occasion was 2 officers, 19 seamen, and 12 marines, killed; 15 officers, 42 seamen, and 32 marines, wounded; and 2 officers, 42 seamen (including one deserter from the Kent), and 43 marines, missing.
Captain Fane subsequently commanded the Pomone frigate. He married, July 20, 1824, the youngest sister of Sir Charles William Flint, Knt. Resident Under Secretary of State for the affairs of Ireland.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
PETER HUNT, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1803.]
This officer served as a Midshipman on board the Alcide 74, at the occupation of Toulon by the fleet under Lord Hood; and was promoted into the Courageux a ship of similar force immediately after the attack made upon Fornelli on the 30th Sept. 1793[1]. He received the Turkish gold medal for his subsequent services in Egypt; obtained the rank of Commander in 1802; and was posted on his arrival in England with Sir Samuel Hood’s despatches announcing the surrender of Demerara in 1803. His last appointment was, about May 1805, to the Raisonable of 64 guns. He died at Cheltenham, much esteemed and regretted, Dec. 4, 1824.
Hon. GEORGE ELLIOT.
[Post-Captain of 1803.]
This officer is the second son of Gilbert, first Earl of Minto, by Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir George Amyand, and sister to the present Sir George Cornewall, Bart.
He was born Aug. 1, 1784; made a Lieutenant in 1800; Commander in 1802; and Post-Captain, Jan. 2, 1804. The ships commanded by him at different periods were the Termagant, sloop of war; and Maidstone, Aurora, Modeste, and Hussar, frigates; the two former employed in the Mediterranean, the three latter on the East India station.
In Oct. 1808, Captain Elliot captured la Jena, French na-
- ↑ See p. 659 and See note † at p. 189.
