Volage in company, through Cook’s Straits, to Valparaiso, where he arrived on the 19th Feb. 1827. After a short stay on the west coast of South America, he rounded Cape Horn, touched at Rio Janeiro, and then returned to England, making the passage from the latter place to Spithead in 49 days. He subsequently visited Lisbon, and appears to have retained the command of the Warspite, (the first British ship of her class that ever circumnavigated the globe) until Oct. 1827. In the following year, he was appointed private secretary to his father, then presiding at the Board of Admiralty; and on the 30th of Nov. 1830, we find him commissioning the Belvidera 42, at Portsmouth.
JOHN FILMORE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1824.]
This officer was made a lieutenant, Jan. 16th, 1808; and we first find him serving under Commodore Edward H. Columbine, at the capture of Senegal, in July, 1809[1], He returned home acting captain of the Crocodile frigate; and was promoted to the rank of commander, by commission dated June 18th, 1811[2]. His last appointments were, in the summer of 1822, to the Ordinary at Plymouth; and, May 30th, 1823, to the Bann sloop, then employed on the African station. Finding on his arrival at Cape Coast, that Commodore Sir Robert Mends had died nearly six weeks before, he immediately appointed himself to the Owen Glendower frigate, and assumed the chief command. His commission as captain, however, was not confirmed by the Admiralty, nor did he obtain promotion to that rank, until Aug. 20th, 1824; previous to which he had returned home for the recovery of his health.[3]
Agents. – Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
