In Oct. 1815 Captain Gambier re-commissioned the Myrmidon, and he continued to command her on the peace establishment for a period of three years. In 1820, he was appointed an Inspecting Commander of the Revenue Coast Guard; and in June, 1825, to the command of the Pyramus 42, in which frigate he sailed for Vera Cruz, Oct. 21 following, having on board Mr. Morier, H.M. commissioner to the republic of Mexico, and Sir Robert Ker Porter, consul-general to Columbia. He resigned the Pyramus, in consequence of the illness of his lady, about July, 1826.
Captain Gambier married, Oct. 27, 1816, Caroline Gore, fourth daughter of Major-General Gore Browne, Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth, and commandant of the western district. By that lady, who died at Malta, Mar. 10, 1827, he had issue one son and three daughters. One of his brothers, Edward John, is a barrister-at-law; another, George Cornish, a captain in the royal navy; and a third, Frederick, rector of East Compton, in Dorsetshire.
Agent.– T. Collier, Esq.
HARRY HOPKINS, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1814.]
Entered the navy under the auspices of Captain William Henry Ricketts, nephew to Earl St. Vincent, with whom he served in the Bonetta sloop, on the West India station, from 1787 till 1790. During the Spanish armament, we find him in the Canada 74, commanded by the late Lord Hugh Seymour; and, subsequently, in the Inconstant and Niger frigates. Captains George Wilson and Richard Goodwin Keats. At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, he again joined his friend Lord Hugh, then commanding the Leviathan 74, in which ship he was present at the occupation of Toulon, by Lord Hood, Aug. 28, 1793[1].
In May, 1704, Mr. Hopkins was received on board the Queen Charlotte, bearing the flag of Earl Howe, under whom
