of this affair will be given in our memoir of Commander Samuel Edward Cook.
On the 5th of the following month, Captain Sibly assisted at the capture of twenty-nine vessels, lying in the mole of the above mentioned place, the greater part laden with timber, for the arsenal at Toulon[1]. His promotion to post rank took place Mar. 8, 1814; at which period he was appointed to the Cossack 22, but ordered to take the temporary command of the Havannah 36. In that frigate he captured the Grande Isabella, French schooner privateer, of 4 guns and 64 men, and retook a merchant vessel, her prize, off Corfu, April 15, 1814.
Captain Sibly’s last appointments were, in June 1814, to the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth, with whom he returned home after the first abdication of Napoleon Buonaparte; and Nov, 5, 1820, to the Niemen 28, in which ship he conveyed the Right Hon, Sir Thomas Maitland to Lisbon, and then proceeded to the Halifax station, where he continued for a period of nearly three years. The Caledonia was paid off by him at Plymouth, in Sept. 1814; and the Niemen at Portsmouth, June 3, 1824.
Agent.– J. Hinxman, Esq.
HON. HENRY DILKES BYNG.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
Is the fourth son of John, fifth Viscount Torrington, and a brother to the noble peer whose long and arduous services, in every quarter of the globe, we have recorded at p. 652, et seq. of our first volume.
Mr. Henry D. Byng first embarked, in 1797, on board the St. Albans 64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral George Vandeput, who placed him under the care of Captain S. G. Church, commanding la Topaze frigate, on the Halifax station, June 20, 1798.
From that ship he was removed, Dec. 22 following, to the Madras 54, Captain John Dilkes, with whom he sailed for
