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out for the Mediterranean station; April 16th, 1814, to the Diomede troop-ship, Captain Charles Montagu Fabian; and, June 16th, 1815, to be flag lieutenant to Sir John T. Duckworth, port-admiral at Plymouth. His promotion to the rank of commander took place April 19th, 1817.

This officer married, Oct. 24th, 1827, Ann, only daughter of the late Edward Divett, of Bystock, co. Devon, Esq.



ROBERT ROCHFORD FELIX, Esq.
[Commander.]

Son of Dr. Felix, of Bristol. This officer obtained a lieutenant’s commission on the 20th Sept. 1806; and subsequently served under Captains James Macnamara, Paul Lawless, and Francis W. Austen, in the Edgar 74, Vautour sloop, and Elephant 74, on the North Sea and Baltic stations. He was promoted from the Salisbury 58, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John E. Douglas, at Jamaica, to the command of the Rifleman sloop, June 10th, 1817. We afterwards find him in the Beaver 10, on the same station, where he continued until Oct. 1818.



CHARLES MOORE (b), Esq.
[Commander.]

Was made a lieutenant on the 26th Jan. 1813; and served on shore, under the command of Captain (now Sir Charles) Rowley, at the reduction of Trieste, by the Austrian and British forces under General Count Nugent and Rear-Admiral Fremantle, in the month of October following. He was appointed flag-lieutenant to Sir Charles Rowley, on that officer assuming the chief command in the river Medway, Aug. 1816; and we subsequently find him lent to the Royal Sovereign yacht, Captain Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen, employed in conveying Louis Philippe, Due d’Orleans, now King of the French, from England to Calais. The following is translated from the Moniteur:

Calais, April 17th, 1817.
“Yesterday, about 9 a.m., the Eleanor, from Nantz to Dunkirk,