command of the Hon. Lieutenant Peachey, assisted by Mr. Garland, master, and Mr. Sanderson, master’s-mate, to bring her off. After a fatiguing pull the whole night, they found themselves at day-light close to her, when she was boarded in a most gallant manner, in the face of a heavy fire of grape and musketry, and defended bravely by pikes and swords; in a few moments she was carried, and proved to be the Dutch national vessel Margaretta, mounting 8 guns, but pierced for 14, and having on board 40 men. She had left Souroubaya nine days, having between twenty and thirty thousand dollars on board, for Amboyna, and supplies of all kinds for Temate.
“Lieutenant Peachey speaks highly of the able support he received from the officers and men under his orders. I am sorry to say, that we had one man dangerously wounded, and four slightly; the enemy, one officer killed and twenty seamen wounded. I have the honor to be, &c.
“To Captain Edward Tucker, H.M.S. Dover, senior officer.”
The subject of this sketch commanded the Hecate sloop at the reduction of Java, in 1811; obtained post rank, Aug. 7, 1812 (on which occasion he was appointed to the Malacca frigate, at Madras); and returned to England, from Bengal, in the Sir Francis Drake 38, with a fleet worth, at least, three millions sterling under his protection, in May, 1813.
Lord Selsey succeeded to the title on the demise of his father, June 27, 1816; and married Oct. 21, 1817, the Hon. Anna Maria Louisa Irby, youngest daughter of Frederick, Lord Boston. Agent.– J. Copland, Esq.
EDWARD ELLICOTT, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
Was senior lieutenant of la Revolutionnaire frigate, Captain Francis Cole, at the capture of l’Unité, thus described by Sir Edward Pellew, now Viscount Exmouth, in a letter to the Admiralty, dated H.M.S. Indefatigable, April 20, 1796:–
“I have the pleasure to inform their lordships, that on the 13th instant, at 4 P.M. we fell in with, and gave chase to a French frigate to windward: la Revolutionnaire being far astern, was tacked by signal to cut the chase off from the shore; and I had the pleasure to see her, just before dark, in a situation to weather the enemy upon a different board, which obliged her also to tack.
“The night setting in cloudy, we lost sight of the chase before 9 o’clock,