The French 74 and frigate then stood for the Perlen, at whom they began firing at 11 a.m. and upon whom they gained gradually in the chase. * * *. At 1 p.m. finding that the two ships were advancing rapidly upon her, the Perlen cut away the sheet, spare, stream, and kedge anchors. At 2-30, the Trident was on her lee, and the Amélie on her weather-quarter; both still keeping up a heavy fire, and the Perlen returning it. In another quarter of an hour, provoked at being fired at so effectually, in a position from which she herself could bring no guns to bear, the Trident yawed and discharged her broadside. This of course occasioned her to drop astern; and, accompanied by the Amélie, she stood for the Volontaire. In a little while, however, the two French ships, finding that the state of their rigging gave them no hope of success in the chase, altered their course, and bore away for Toulon.
“The Perlen had her standing and running rigging and sails very much cut, and received two shots so low down as to cause her to make 9 inches of water per hour; but, fortunately, she had none of her crew hurt. The Volontaire was not struck; although, at one time, two 2-deckers, one with a rear-admiral’s flag, fired several broadsides at her.”
Captain Tetley’s post commission was confirmed by the Admiralty, Jan. 7th, 1812. He died suddenly, leaving a widow and large family, Nov. 29th, 1828.
GEORGE ACKLOM, Esq.
Knight of the Imperial Russian Orders of St. Anne and St. Wladimer; and a Magistrate for the county of Middlesex.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
This officer entered the navy, as a midshipman on board the Bedford 74, Captain Robert Man, in 1788; and subsequently served under Captain G. W. A. Courtenay, in the Pearl frigate, on the Mediterranean station. At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, he was again received on board the Bedford; and from that ship promoted into the Captain, another third rate, in Oct. 1794. We should here observe that he was employed on shore at Toulon during the occupation of that place by the allied forces under Admiral Lord Hood, and that he was consequently engaged in a variety of harassing services previous to his receiving a commission.
In 1795, we find Mr. Acklom serving as flag-lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Hotham and subsequently under Lord Hugh Seymour, in the Sans Pareil 80, on the Jamaica station.
