Banda-Neira, the chief of the Dutch Spice Islands, Aug. 9th, 1810. In the official report of that conquest, made by Captain (now Sir Christopher) Cole to Rear-Admiral Drury, there appears the following passage:
“The colours of Forts Nassau and Belgica will be presented to your excellency by Lieutenant John Gilmour, who has served nine years in this country as a lieutenant, and a large portion of that time as first lieutenant under my command. Although labouring under severe illness, he took charge of the ship on my quitting her; and his seaman-like and zealous conduct in the discharge of his trust was most conspicuous.”
Lieutenant Gilmour’s promotion to the rank of commander did not take place until July 1st, 1811. He died in the year 1823.
JAMES BREMER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of the late Captain James Bremer, R.N. (whose services are briefly recorded in Charnock’s Biographia Navalis), by Marianne, sister of Lieutenant Daniel Gernier, who perished on board the Ramillies 74, near Plymouth, Feb. 15th, 1760[1].
This officer was born at Southampton, Jan. 15th, 1767 ; and had scarcely attained the sixth year of his age, when he accompanied his father, in the Pearl frigate, to Newfoundland. On his return home, in 1774, he was placed at school, where he continued until July, 1778, when we find him embarking as a midshipman on board the Vigilant 64, in which ship he served, under Captains Robert Kingsmill and Sir Digby Dent, on the Channel and West India stations, upwards of three years. The most remarkable events of which he was an eye-witness, during that period, were the action between Keppel and D’Orvilliers, off Ushant, July 27th, 1778; that between Byron and D’Estaing, off Grenada, July 6th, 1779; and those between Rodney and De Guichen, off Martinique, in April and May, 1780. In these encounters
