naval force to counteract the designs of the enemy in that quarter.
On the following day was obtained one of the most brilliant victories ever recorded in our naval annals. It would be superfluous to repeat any of the circumstances of that proud event, in this place. A particular account thereof will be found under the head of Earl St. Vincent; and the conspicuous part acted by the Captain, in our memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Berry and Captain James Noble.
Soon after the above glorious event, Lieutenant Spicer was promoted to the command of the Arab, and subsequently removed into le Renard of 20 guns; the latter sloop he left in 1801.
On the 29th April, 1802, Captain Spicer was included in the list of officers who were advanced to post rank, in consequence of the cessation of hostilities. Soon after the renewal of the war we find him commanding the San Josef, a first rate, and subsequently the Foudroyant of 80 guns. The latter ship he appears to have quitted about June 1804, from which period there is no further mention of him until the summer of 1810, when he was appointed to regulate the impress service at Swansea. Captain Spicer obtained the out pension of Greenwich Hospital, March 18, 1816. He is a burgess of Saltash, in Cornwall, and was formerly an alderman of that borough.
JAMES SEWARD, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant, July 30, 1779; and commanded la Sirenne sloop of war, on the Jamaica station, in 1796. He subsequently held an appointment in the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Hampshire. His post commission bears date April 29, 1802.
Captain Seward married, in 1800, a daughter of Colonel, (now Lieutenant-General) Eveleigh, of the Royal Engineers, That lady died in 1813.
Agent.– Thomas Stilwell, Esq.
