of lieutenant. We subsequently find him serving under Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Thomas Harvey, in the Standard 64. His commission as commander bears date. Mar. 14th, 1811.
This officer married, Aug. 22d, 1819, Anna Maria, second daughter of the Rev. J. Price, vicar of Merriott, co. Somerset.
JOHN CRAMER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in 1795; and promoted to the rank of commander, Mar. 16th, 1811.
HENRY LYNNE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made lieutenant in 1794, and appears to have been a passenger on board the Laurel 22, Captain John Charles Woollcombe, when that ship was captured, after a gallant action, near the Mauritius, by the French 40-gun frigate Canonnière, Sept. 12th, 1808. He subsequently commanded the Emma government transport, at Isle Bourbon, where he contributed by his “indefatigable exertions” to the re-establishment of our naval supremacy in the Indian Ocean, as was officially acknowledged. In Dec. 1810, he acted as commander of the Eclipse sloop, at the capture of the Isle of France; and in Feb. following, we find him taking possession of Tamatavé, thereby securing to the British “an unmolested traffic with the fruitful and abundant island of Madagascar.” He obtained his present rank on the 18th of April, 1811, and continued to command the Eclipse (latterly on the West India station) until July, 1814.
WILLIAM GREGORY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Oct. 1802, and promoted to his present rank in April, 1811. He subsequently commanded the Electra sloop, on the Newfoundland station, where he captured, July 7th, 1813, the American privateer schooner
