The Caroline formed part of the squadron under Sir Edward Pellew, at the total extermination of the Dutch naval force in India, Dec. 11, 1807[1]. The boats of the Fox captured and brought out from under the batteries at Sapara, la Carravanne, a French vessel mounting eight 4-pounders, from Batavia, bound to Sourabaya, Mar. 23, 1809.
After serving nearly four years as an acting-captain, ill health obliged this officer to leave the East Indies, and on his return home he had the mortification to find that Lord Mulgrave had only confirmed him as a commander, by commission dated Oct. 12, 1807. That nobleman’s successor, however (the Right Hon. Charles Yorke), received him in the most handsome manner; immediately appointed him to the Thracian brig, of 18 guns; and followed up his disinterested kindness, by advancing him to post rank, on the 1st Aug. 1811.
Captain Hart’s next appointment was, Dec. 10, 1813, to the Revenge 74, bearing the flag of his friend Sir John Gore, on the Mediterranean station. In Mar. 1818, the same officer nominated him to be his flag-captain at Chatham, but a recent regulation at the admiralty prevented this arrangement from being carried into effect. He subsequently commanded the Sapphire 26, on the Jamaica station, from whence he returned home invalided, as a passenger on board the Tartar frigate, Aug. 28, 1820.
Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
CORBET JAMES D’AUVERGNE, Esq.
Ranger of the Island of Jersey and its Dependencies.
[Post-Captain of 1811.]
Son of the late Charles d’Auvergne, Esq. (a descendant of the celebrated Godfrey, first Duke of Bouillon, in France)[2] by his second wife Bandinel, daughter of the Seigneur de Melesches, the head of one of the most ancient families in Jersey.
We first find this officer commanding the Aristocrat hired
