fifty-eight men, out of 122, the number on board at the time of our shipwreck, of which eighteen, as we supposed, were drowned when the ship struck: five were lost on the small raft, one was drowned in trying to get to the boat, and thirty-four perished by famine.”
Mr. Nesbitt, who was then second lieutenant of the Nautilus, obtained a commander’s commission in Jan. 1809; married, in 1811, Maria, youngest daughter of William Fisher, Receiver-General for the county of Norfolk; and died, we believe, in the year 1824.
GEORGE HALSTED, Esq.
[Commander.]
Brother to Admiral Sir Lawrence W. Halsted, K.C.B. He was made a lieutenant in 1796, and promoted to the rank of commander in Jan. 1809.
WILLIAM BISSELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was the son of a clergyman, and a native of Tattenhall, in Cheshire. His younger brother. Captain Austin Bissell, an eminently distinguished officer, perished in the Blenheim 74, bearing the flag of Sir Thomas Troubridge, on his return from Madras to the Cape of Good Hope, in Feb. 1807.
This officer entered the navy as midshipman on board the Inflexible 64, Captain Rowland Cotton, with whom he sailed to the relief of Gibraltar, in Mar. 1781: he was also in the same ship under the command of Captain the Hon. J. Chetwynd, in the last action between Sir Edward Hughes and Mons. De Suffrein, fought off Cuddalore, in the East Indies, June 20th, 1783. On his return to England, he joined the Culloden 74, then commanded by Captain Cotton; and we subsequently find him serving in the Fortune sloop, Orion 74, Porcupine 24, Victory first rate, and Winchelsea frigate. In the beginning of 1790, he was entrusted with the command of a small cutter, borrowed from the Commissioners of the Irish Revenue, and employed as a tender to the Porcupine; on the 18th May in the same year, he was severely
