ALEXANDER M‘KONOCHIE, Esq.
Secretary to the London Geological Society.
[Commander.]
This officer served as midshipman on board the Ethalion frigate. Captain (now Sir Thomas J.) Cochrane, on the West India station ; obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 15th Sept. 1809; and was a prisoner of war at Verdun, in Dec. 1813. His commission as commander bears date Sept. 8th, 1816. He is the author of “A Summary View of the Statistics and existing Commerce of the principal Shores of the Pacific Ocean; with a sketch of the advantages, political and commercial, which would result from the establishment of a central free port within its limits; and also of one in the Southern Atlantic, viz., within the territory of the Cape of Good Hope, conferring on this latter, in particular, the same privilege of direct trade with India and the Northern Atlantic, bestowed lately on Malta and Gibraltar.” 8vo. published in 1818. A review of this very interesting and entertaining production appeared in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, III. 695 et seq.
CHARLES LECHMERE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Served as midshipman under Captain John Cramer (now Sir Josiah Coghill), in the Concorde frigate, on the East India station; passed, his examination, and was made a lieutenant, in Dec. 1807; served as such in the Lively frigate, Captain George M‘Kinley; San Josef 114, bearing the flag of Sir Charles Cotton, commander-in-chief on the Mediterranean station; and Cyrus 20, Captain William F. Carroll; obtained the rank of commander on the 18th Sept. 1815; and died previous to July 1823.
HENRY BENJAMIN WYATT, Esq.
[Commander.]
Is a son of Mr. Wyatt, the celebrated architect. He passed his examination in June, 1809; and, at the inter-
