commander-in-chief in the East Indies) and the Bishop of Calcutta, from Portsmouth to Bengal; brought home General Viscount Combermere and his staff; and was subsequently ordered to Halifax, from whence she returned with Colonel and Mrs. Fox, passengers, in Sept. 1830.
Agents.– Messrs. Stillwell.
ISHAM FLEMING CHAPMAN, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1824.]
Son of the late Isham Chapman, Esq. more than half a century in the employ of the Board of Customs, at Cowes, who died Dec. 23d, 1829, aged 81 years.
This officer was made a lieutenant into the Invincible 74, Captain (now Vice-Admiral) Ross Donnelly, Feb. 11th, 1808. The following is an extract of a letter from Captain Maclean, of H.M. 94th regiment, to Lieutenant-General Graham (now Lord Lynedoch) reporting the evacuation of Fort Matagorda, near Cadiz, in April, 1810[1].
“I request. Sir, you will state to the Admiral, how highly sensible I am of the handsome manner in which Lieutenants Chapman and M‘Pherson, of the royal navy, and one or two others, whose names I cannot now recollect, volunteered their services during the heaviest of the fire. Mr. George Dobson, midshipman of the Invincible, had charge of the seamen under my command during the whole time, and I beg you. Sir, to recommend him to the Admiral, as a very excellent and brave officer.”
Lieutenant Chapman subsequently served as first of the Royal George 100, Curaçoa frigate, and Edinburgh 74, on the Mediterranean station; from whence he returned home in the latter ship, under the command of Captain John Lampen Manley, towards the close of 1814. His advancement to the rank of commander took place Aug. 3lst, 1815; and his next appointment appears to have been, Dec. 29th, 1818, to the Nautilus 18, which sloop was first employed on the St. Helena station, and afterwards in the West Indies.
On the 18th Jan. 1821, Captain Chapman was appointed by
