in a boat belonging to that ship, at the capture and destruction of a French convoy in the bay of Rosas, Oct. 31st and Nov. 1st, 1809[1]. He obtained a lieutenant’s commission on the 1st Aug. 1811; and subsequently served under the flag of Rear-Admiral Hallowell, in the Malta 80, Royal Sovereign 100, and Tonnant 80; the former ship on the Mediterranean station, the second fitting out for Channel service, and the latter stationed in the cove of Cork, where he jumped from her ward-room into the sea, and thereby saved the life of an intoxicated man, who had thrown himself overboard, Sept. 30th, 1815. He was advanced to his present rank on the 9th Sept. 1818.
Commander Bridges married, at Milan, May 19th, 1825, Harriet, only surviving daughter of the Rev. D. D. Bergeur, rector of Everley, co. Wilts, and chaplain to Aubrey, seventh Duke of St. Albans.
SAMUEL SPARSHOTT, Esq.
Deputy Comptroller General of the Coast Guard.
[Commander.]
This officer passed his examination in May 1809; obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 22d Aug. following; and subsequently served under Captains Robert Preston and William Bowles, in the Ganymede, Aquilon, Euphrates, and Amphion frigates. He was advanced to his present rank on the 16th Oct. 1818; and appointed inspecting commander of the coast guard at Yarmouth, in July 1814. We next find him, Sept. 13th 1826, commissioned to the Nimrod sloop, which vessel, when on her way from Cork to the river Clyde, having brought up in Holyhead bay during a gale from the N.N.W., drove on shore and was bilged, in the night of Jan. 14th, 1827. On the account of this disaster reaching the Admiralty, a master-attendant was sent round with succours from Plymouth, but, owing to strong easterly winds, he did not arive at Holyhead until after the Nimrod had, by very great exertions on the part of her commander, officers, and crew, been
