“That the facts stated in the first and fifth objections have not been proved. – That the facts stated in the second, third, fourth, sixth, eighth, and ninth of the said objections, have been proved; but that Captain Chapman was justified in the conduct pursued by him relative to such said objections. – That the facts stated in the seventh objection have been proved. – That with respect to the fourth and sixth of the objections, they are frivolous and vexatious. – That the allegation respecting the purchase of a negresse, or female slave, on or about the 16th day of August, 1824, had been proved, but with respect to her sudden disappearance, the Court is of opinion, that although it is not accounted for, she must have escaped through the stern port, unknown to Captain Chapman; and the Court doth adjudge the said Captain I. F. Chapman to be dismissed from His Majesty’s service, and he is hereby dismissed accordingly.”
This sentence remained in force until the summer of 1828, at which period Captain Chapman was restored to his former rank in the navy.
Agents.– Messrs. Stillwell.
PERCY GRACE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1825.]
The antiquity of the family of Grace is of the very highest order. Descended from the ancient lords of Tuscany, it passed through Otho or Othoere, a powerful nobleman, contemporary with our Alfred, from Florence into Normandy, and thence into England; where, in the sixteenth year of Edward the Confessor, he is styled a baron, and was the father of Walter-Fitz-Other, who, at the general survey of the kingdom in 1078, was castellan of Windsor, and appointed by the Conqueror to be warden of the forests of Berkshire, – an office in those days of no small power and correspondent responsibility. The high honors and brilliant achievements of his descendants are reflected on the founder; and Other must always be illustrious, as the common ancestor of the noble houses of Windsor earl of Plymouth, Carew earl of Totness, and Carew baronet; Grace baron of Courtstown, and Grace baronet; Fitz-Maurice marquis of Landsdown and earl of Kerry; Gerard earl of Macclesfield, and Gerard baronet; Fitz-Gerald duke of Leinster, earl of Desmond, and Fitz-Gerald baronet; Mackenzie earl of Seaforth and Cromartie, and Fitz-Gibbon earl of Clare.
Upon the conquest of South Wales by the Anglo-Norman noble, Gerald Fitz-Walter de Windsor (third son of Walter-Fitz-Other) acquired extensive possessions there; which some younger branches of his descendants quitted, to run a still more splendid race in Ireland. One of these was Raymond Fitz-William de Carew, surnamed le Gros (a grandson of
