reer was naturally attended with the most heart-rending feelings, and served to embitter the last moments of his existence. He died, we believe, at Jersey, after a severe and lingering illness, March 25th, 1824, leaving a widow and four children to lament his loss. Mrs. Scriven is a niece to the late Edward Harris, Esq. a Commissioner of the Navy Board.
WILLIAM RUSH JACKSON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Passed his examination, and obtained a lieutenant’s commission, in Dec. 1807. He was made a commander on the 20th Oct. 1813.
HENRY LOWCAY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of a respectable warrant officer, who died at Portsmouth, Feb. 5, 1827, aged 87 years.
Mr. Henry Lowcay entered the royal navy previous to the Spanish armament, and served as midshipman on board the Duke 98, successively commanded by Captains Robert Kingsmill, Robert Calder, and John Knight (and bearing the flags of Vice-Admiral Roddam and Admiral Lord Hood), in 1791 and 1792. On the 27th Aug. in the latter year, he was discharged, by particular desire of his lordship, into the Juno 32, Captain Samuel Hood, then employed in attendance on King George III. at Weymouth, but subsequently as a cruiser in the Channel, where she captured several of the enemy’s privateers and other vessels, at the commencement of the French revolutionary war.
The Juno was next ordered to the Mediterranean, and formed part of the squadron under Commodore Linzee, at the capture of St. Fiorenzo, in Corsica, Feb. 19th, 1794[1]. Her previous extraordinary escape from Toulon harbour has been described in our memoir of Captain W. H. Webley Parry, Vol. II. Part II. pp. 645-648.
