them in that important science; and it is but justice to both to add, that Captain Duncan has been often heard to declare how much he admired and how much he had profited by his Lordship’s system of gunnery. Lord Cochrane probably did not think otherwise of Captain Duncan’s, when he recommended him as his successor to his favorite ship, although unacquainted with him until they had met on service a few months before[1]. The crew of the Glasgow, perhaps the finest set of men ei r er collected on board a ship, were well trained to their guns under Captain Duncan; and the perfection to which he brought the Liffey’s firing, aided by Sir William Congreve’s sights, is sufficiently shewn in the extract from his journal, published in a treatise on that subject by the latter ingenious officer.
Captain Duncan married, April 22, 1823, Mary Simpson, only daughter of Captain James Coutts Crawford, R.N. and grand-daughter of the late Alexander Duncan, of Restalrig House, near Edinburgh, Esq. by whom he has a son, born June 23, 1824; and a daughter, born May 31, 1825.
Agent.– J. Woodhead, Esq.
HENRY VAUGHAN, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1806.]
This officer, a descendant of the late Earl of Carberry, was born in 1757. He entered the naval service as a Midshipman on board the Boyne of 70 guns, commanded by Captain Broderick Hartwell, in 1774; and afterwards joined in succession, the Foudroyant 80, Captain John Jervis; Galatea 20, Captain J. Jordan[2]; Ardent 64, Captain James Gambier; and Sandwich, a second-rate, bearing the flag of Sir George B. Rodney; by whom he was appointed first
- ↑ During a debate on naval affairs in the House of Commons, Lord Cochrane complained that the Admiralty did not pay attention to the recommendation of officers. Mr. Croker said in reply, “that his Lordship should be the last to make such an accusation, as the Board had attended to his recommendation, even so far as to the appointment of a successor to his ship,” or words to that effect. We state this from memory, consequently cannot give the exact date when the conversation alluded to took place.
- ↑ The Galatea assisted at the reduction of New York in Sept. 1776.
