rank of lieutenant in Feb. 1812; and, after serving for some time in the Fame 74, Captain Walter Bathurst, was advanced to his present rank, Aug. 27th, 1814. He was an unsuccessful candidate for employment in the expedition sent against Algiers, in 1810.
The father of Commander Harness married, secondly, the widow of Admiral Robert Linzee: one of his sons is in holy orders, another in the corps of royal engineers.
ALEXANDER MERCADELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Is the son of a Minorca merchant. He was made a lieutenant on the 14th May, 1808; and advanced to his present rank, while serving as first of the Alcmene frigate, Captain Jeremiah Coghlan, Sept. 3d, 1814.
CHARLES GIDDY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 30th Sept. 1801; and served as such under Lord William Stuart, in the Lavinia frigate and Conquestador 74; from which latter ship he was promoted to the rank he now holds, Sept. 10th, 1814. He married, Aug. 2d, 1817, a daughter of the late Rev. G. P. Scobell, vicar of Sancreed and St. Just, Cornwall.
CHARLES PENGELLEY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Feb. 1805 ; and subsequently served in the Hibernia 110, Foudroyant 80, Royal George 100, Shearwater 16, Fylla 22, and San Josef 114. During the operations against Genoa and its dependencies, in 1814, he commanded a division of the Anglo-Sicilian flotilla. We afterwards find him acting commander of the Guadaloupe 10. His promotion to that rank took place on
