and the Scarborough, on the North Sea station, till the commencement of 1814; from which period he regulated the impress service at Gosport until the final cessation of hostilities, in 1815. Whilst thus employed, he had the honour of kissing hands on being introduced to the Prince Regent and his august allies, during their visit to the fleet at Portsmouth, an act of reverence which he was afterwards most graciously allowed to perform, as one of the deputation sent over from Gosport, with an address to our beloved Monarch, when his Majesty first visited the former town after his accession to the throne.
The subject of the foregoing memoir married Miss A. Fowler, by whom he has issue two sons and one daughter. The eldest, Lawrence William, holds a commission in the 87th regiment of foot; the youngest, George Anthony, is a Lieutenant, R.N.[1]
GEORGE CHARLES MACKENZIE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1808.]
This officer was one of Vancouver’s midshipmen, in the Discovery, during a voyage round the world, already noticed at p. 200 et seq. of Vol. II. Part I. He obtained his first commission in 1796, and was made a Commander into the Experiment 44, armed en flute, at the commencement of 1802.
Captain Mackenzie’s next appointment was to the Wolfe sloop of war, in which vessel he destroyed la Precieusa Spanish privateer, of 3 guns and 23 men, on the Jamaica station, Oct. 19, 1805. A service of greater importance, in the performance of which he was assisted by the boats of the Malabar 54, is thus described by the captain of that ship, in a letter to Rear-Admiral Dacres, dated off Port Azaraderos, Cuba, Jan. 2, 1806:
- ↑ Captain Halsted’s brothers were all devoted to the naval profession, viz. – Charles, a Lieutenant, perished in the Blanche frigate, 1780; Lawrence William, a Vice-Admiral and K.C.B., now on his return from holding the chief command in the West Indies; and George, a Commander of 1809.
