the 8th Aug., after having cruised for some time off Madeira and the Canaries, anchored in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes. A few days afterwards, when about eight degrees to the northward of that island, she was totally dismasted in a hurricane. In 1807, we find her attached to the Channel fleet; and in the beginning of 1808, employed in the blockade of Ferrol. She subsequently accompanied the army under Sir John Moore from the Downs to Sweden. This force came back to England under her protection in the month of July following.
In Aug. 1808, Captain Gosselin, with Sir Harry Burrard and other general officers as his guests on board the Audacious, convoyed a large body of troops to Portugal; and after their debarkation at Mariera, proceeded to the River Tagus, where he continued under the orders of Sir Charles Cotton, until the retreat of Sir John Moore to Coruna, from whence he escorted home a fleet of transports. In Jan. 1809, he received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, for his “unremitted exertions” in embarking the army after the battle of Coruna, the official despatches relative to which were written by Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope, on board the Audacious.
Captain Gosselin resigned his command in Mar. 1809; and was prevented by ill-health from accepting a subsequent appointment to the Cressy 74. He obtained the rank of flag-officer on the 4th June, 1814; and became a Vice-Admiral in May 1825.
The subject of this memoir was married. Mar. 18th, 1809, by the Archbishop of York, to Sarah, daughter of the late Jeremiah Hadsley, Esq., of Ware Priory, Herts.
SIR CHARLES ROWLEY, K.C.B., K.M.T.
Vice-Admiral of the White. – One of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and a Groom of his Majesty’s Bedchamber.
(Vol. I. Part II p. 672.)
This officer is the fourth son of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, Bart., by Sarah, daughter of Bartholomew Burton, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, and a grandson of the late Sir William Rowley, K.B., Ad-
