continued employed, chiefly in affording protection to trade, until advanced to the rank of Commander, 1 Jan. 1801. He was made Post 29 April, 1802; appointed, in June, 1803, Sept. 1805, and Oct. 1806, to the Sea Fencibles at Cromer, the Impress at Whitby, and the Sea Fencibles at Dundee; and placed in command, 19 March, 1808, of the Alcmène 32. While exercising a party of men at Cromer, a grape-shot weighing eight ounces entered his right foot; and two years and a half elapsed before it could be extracted. He applied in consequence for a pension, but was refused. In June, 1808, Capt. Tremlett, then in the Alcmène, on the coast of Spain, entered into a communication with the Spanish authorities at Corunna: he assisted for three days at their councils, and then embarked the deputies sent from Galicia to solicit the aid of Great Britain in the war about to commence between their country and France. On his return to Corunna with them, Sir Chas. Stuart, and a quantity of specie, he was awarded the rank of General in the Patriotic Army – the first time indeed that such a mark of distinction had been conferred on an Englishman. On 22 Dec. 1808 the Alcmène fell in with two French frigates of the largest class, each with a complement of 380 men, in addition to 200 troops, intended for the relief of Guadeloupe. These, as the British ship approached, shortened sail, but before the latter could arrive within gun-shot, they made off under all sail. Ultimately, after having been chased a distance of 130 miles, they sought refuge under the citadel of St. Martin’s, on the Ile de Ré. On the night after Capt. Tremlett formed the bold design of running alongside the outermost frigate for the purpose of endeavouring to carry her by boarding; but in this he was disappointed through the ignorance or cowardice of his French pilot, who ran the Alcmène aground within pistol-shot of her opponent. The latter, it was found, had also got on the same shoal. The noise made by trying to heave the Alcmène off alarmed the batteries on shore; but, owing to the darkness of the night, she escaped with a few shot in her hull and through her sails and rigging. She afterwards blockaded the enemy so closely that they were unable to get to sea. On 24 Feb. 1809 Capt. Tremlett witnessed, we believe, the destruction of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne. At different times he took and destroyed upwards of fifty sail of the enemy’s vessels on different parts of the coast between Ile Dieu and Cape Finisterre. On 29 April, 1809, while endeavouring to cut off another French frigate,, the Alcmène, still in charge of the French pilot, struck on a reef of sunken rooks, near the mouth of the Loire, and filled so fast that nothing whatever could be saved from her. Fortunately the Amelia 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Paul Irby, at this critical juncture hove in sight, and rescued the officers and crew; with whom, after setting fire to and destroying the wreck, she returned to England. Capt. Tremlett was not afterwards able to procure employment. He was placed on the Retired list of Rear-Admirals 10 Jan. 1837; transferred to the Active list 17 Aug. 1840; and advanced to his present rank 22 Jan. 1847.
The Vice-Admiral married the youngest daughter of the late John Dawson, Esq., of Mossley Hill, near Liverpool, and sister-in-law of Lieut. Henry Fred. Sewell, R.N. He has a son, Francisco Saugro, a Lieutenant R.N.
TRENCH. (Lieutenant, 1833.)
The Honourable Robert Le Poer Trench, born in Oct. 1809, is third and youngest son of Richard, second Earl of Clancarty, G.C.B., who was appointed, in 1813, Ambassador at the Hague, by Henrietta Margaret, second daughter of the Right Hon. John Staples. He is brother of the present Earl and of Hon. Rich. John Trench, a Captain in the 52nd Regiment, who died in 1841; and nephew of the late Rear-Admiral Hon. Wm. Le Poer Trench.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 June, 1822. He passed his examination in 1830; obtained his commission 19 Nov. 1833; and was appointed, 25 March, 1836, for upwards of 12 months, to the Pembroke 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Fairfax Moresby, employed on the Home and Lisbon stations, and 1 Jan. 1839, to the Powerful 84, Capt. Chas. Napier, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he returned towards the close of 1840. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
TRENCH. (Rear-Admiral of the Red, 1840. f-p., 15; h-p., 47.)
William Le Poer Trench was born in July, 1771, and died 16 Aug. 1846 at Ballinasloe. He was third son of William, first Earl of Clancarty, by Anne, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Chas. Gardiner, and sister of Luke, first Lord Mountjoy. He was brother of the second Earl of Clancarty, the late Archbishop of Tuam, and the late gallant Colonel Hon. Sir Robt. Le Poer Trench, K.C.B., K.T.S.; brother-in-law of the first Lord Castlemaine and the present Earl of Rathdowne; and uncle of Lieut. Hon. Robt. Le Poer Trench, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 April, 1785, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Trusty 50, Capt. Wm. Wolseley, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore, subsequently Rear-Admiral, Philip Cosby, in the Mediterranean, whence he returned to England in 1790. After further serving, on the coast of Ireland and in the Channel, as Midshipman, in the Porcupine 24, Capt. Geo. Martin, Impregnable 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Cosby, and Vengeance 74, Capt. Chas. Thompson, he joined, in April, 1793, the Ulysses 44; of which ship, stationed in the West Indies, he was created a Lieutenant 16 June following. Invaliding in Nov. of the same year, he was next, 27 Jan. 1794 and 9 Feb. 1796, appointed to the Crescent 36, Capts. Sir Jas. Saumarez and Edw. Buller, and Ramillies 74, Capts. Sir Rich. Bickerton, Bartholomew Rowley, and Rich. Grindall; in which ships he continued employed in the Channel and North Sea until promoted to the rank of Commander, 19 Nov. 1799. The Crescent was in action, 8 June, 1794, with an enemy’s squadron of very superior force, from whom she escaped by a series of the most bold and masterly manoeuvres. After he left the Ramillies, Capt. Trench, it appears, did not go afloat. He attained Post rank 29 April, 1802; became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired list 10 Jan. 1837; and was placed on the Active list 17 Aug. 1840.
Rear-Admiral Trench was appointed, in 1819, Secretary to the Board of Customs and Port Duties in Ireland; and on 27 Sept. 1823 he was nominated an Assistant Commissioner. He married, first, in 1800, Sarah, daughter of John Loftus Cuppage, Esq.; and secondly, in Jan. 1837, Margaret, daughter of Dawson Downing, Esq., of Rosegift, co. Londonderry, and widow of Arthur Handcock, Esq., son of Richard, second Lord Castlemaine. By the former lady he had issue three sons and one daughter; and by the latter one son and one daughter.
TRENT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 32.)
George Norris Trent entered the Navy, 31 March, 1805, as A.B., on board the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack; of which ship, employed in the Channel and West Indies, he was nominated, in May, 1806, Midshipman. In Sept. 1807, he removed to the Téméraire 98, stationed at first in the Channel and Baltic, and next in the Mediterranean; where, in Dec. 1811, ho became Master’s Mate (a rating he had attained in Aug. 1810) of the ImpAkieuse 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan. In that frigate he contributed to the destruction, 27 June, 1812, of a French convoy under the batteries of Languelia and Alassio. He was also, 17 Aug. in the same year, present in a spirited skirmish with a powerful Neapolitan squadron in the Bay of Naples; and in 1813-14 he witnessed the capture of Port d’Anzo and the operations against Leghorn and Genoa. A day or two previously to the fall of the latter place he had been transferred to the Apollo
