common use. In Dec. 1823, he presented the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, with an excellent break for shoeing oxen, which had been in use for some years, and was placed in the cattle yard of the society. He at the same time exhibited a portable vapour bath, which had been highly approved of by H.R.H. the Duke of York, also by several of the most intelligent and respectable medical men of the army and navy, and is now used in some of the metropolitan hospitals. He likewise displayed a model of a mail-coach, to prevent the pressure of the vehicle against the horses, in descending hills. If, as has been said, steam is a powerful and successful agent in the yellow fever of the West Indies, the typhus fever, and the cholera morbus of India, Commander Jekyll’s vapour bath must be of great importance to both services.
JOSHUA TREACY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Dec. 1797; and served for many years under the late Admiral Sir Charles Cotton. On that officer striking his flag in 1807, Mr. Treacy accepted an offer of Sir John Borlase Warren, and proceeded with him to Halifax, as first of his flag-ship, the Swiftsure 74. When Sir Charles Cotton assumed the command on the Lisbon station, after the emigration of the House of Braganza, he again applied for his old follower; who accordingly hastened to join the Hibernia 110, from which ship he was removed, with the admiral’s retinue, into the San Josef 112, on the Mediterranean station, in 1810. Lieutenant Treacy was made a commander on the 21st Mar. 1812.
RICHARD ALCOCK, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of the late Robert Alcock, of Desmana, co. Waterford, Ireland, Esq., and grandson of John Alcock, Dean of Lismore, in the same county. His uncle, Alexander Alcock, was Dean of Kilmackdoagh, co. Galway; and his father’s
