cession of a royal princess, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, by commission dated July 3d, 1809, appointing him to the Magnet sloop, Captain John Smith (a), then about to join the Walcheren expedition. He afterwards served in the Ruby 64, Captain Robert Williams; and Cumberland 74, Captain (now Sir Thomas) Baker. His promotion to the rank of commander took place Sept. 18th, 1815.
GEORGE BIGNELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of John Bignell, Esq. now thirty-nine years a purser in the royal navy.
This officer’s first commission bears date Sept. 10th, 1801. He was severely wounded, and obliged to surrender to the Americans, while commanding the Hunter brig, under the orders of Captain Robert Heriott Barclay, on Lake Erie, Sept. 10th, 1813[1]. He obtained his present rank on the 19th[1], Sept. 1815; and about the same period, a pension for wounds, of £150 per annum.
NEWDIGATE POYNTZ, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in Sept. 1807; and commander on the 19th Sept. 1815.
WILLIAM BOURCHIER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant in February 1810; and afterwards employed in the Gibraltar flotilla, under the orders of Commodore Penrose. He subsequently commanded the Newash schooner, on Lake Huron; where he remained until the breaking up of the naval establishment in Canada, in 1817. His commission as commander bears date Sept. 19th, 1815.
This officer married, April 8th, 1821, Emma, second daughter of John Mills Jackson, of Downton, co. Wilts, Esq.
