ROBERT SMITH, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of the late Mr. Smith, carpenter in the royal navy. This officer obtained his first commission on the 24th Aug. 1807; and was senior lieutenant of the Eurotas 38, Captain (now Sir John) Phillimore, in the severe action between that ship and la Clorinde French frigate, Feb. 25th, 1814[1]. He was advanced to his present rank on the 4th of the following month.
Commander Smith married, June 26th, 1818, Miss Seeds, daughter of a medical practitioner.
NICHOLAS JAMES CUTHBERT DUNN, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 22d Jan. 1806; promoted from the Tenedos frigate, Captain Hyde Parker, to the command of the Indian sloop. Mar. 9th, 1814; and appointed an inspecting commander in the coast guard, Dec. 31st, 1820.
SIR GEORGE MOUAT KEITH, Bart.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 12th Aug. 1801; and commanded the Protector gun-brig, at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, in Jan. 1806. His next appointment was. Mar. 19th, 1808, to the Redbreast, a similar vessel, on the North Sea station. In 1813, and the beginning of 1814, we find him very actively employed under the orders of Captains John M‘Kerlie and Arthur Farquhar; particularly at the sieges of Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt[2]. His commission as commander bears date Mar. 16th, 1814; on which day he was re-appointed to the Redbreast, then rated a sloop of war.
