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THOMAS BALL CLOWES, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1823.]

Is the son of a deceased medical gentleman, formerly resident at Sandwich. He served as midshipman under Commodore (now Sir Edward W. C. R.) Owen; passed his examination in April, 1809; obtained the rank of lieutenant, Dec. 26th, in the same year; and was appointed to the Hamadryad frigate. Captain Sir Thomas Staines, about June, 1810. His commission as commander bears date March 23d, 1812.

Captain Clowes’s subsequent appointments were, June 2d, 1812, to the Sparrowhawk brig, of 18 guns, employed in the Mediterranean; and, May 22d, 1821, to the Rose 18, about to be launched at Portsmouth, in which vessel he sailed for the above station, on the 20th August following. He obtained post rank May 16th, 1823.

Agent.– W. M‘Inerheny, Esq.

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DAVID BUCHAN, Esq.
Principal Sheriff of Newfoundland.
[Post-Captain of 1823.]

This officer obtained a lieutenant’s commission, Jan. 29th, 1806. The first mention we find made of him, subsequent to that period, is in “Barrow’s Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions,” published in 1818; – Mr. Harrow says:–

“Since the first establishment of the fishery on the banks of Newfoundland, very little communication has at any time been had with the natives of this large island, and for more than half a century past none at all; indeed, it was considered by many as doubtful whether there were on the island any permanent inhabitants, or whether the Indians, some-times seen on the western coast, did not come in their canoes across the straits of Belleisle, merely for the purpose of fishing and killing deer. A settler, however, reported that, in the autumn of 1810, he had discovered a storehouse on the banks of the River of Exploits. Upon this report, Sir John Duckworth sent Lieutenant Buchan, commander of the schooner Adonis, to the Bay of Exploits, for the purpose of undertaking an expedition into the interior, with a view of opening a communication with the