to the acting command of the Creole frigate, fitting at Sheerness for the South American station, where he was posted into the Amphion 32, under orders for England, Oct. 21, in the same year. He married, April 17, 1820, Louisa Henrietta, only daughter of Frederick Bode, Esq.
Agents.– Messrs. Maude and Co.
MARTIN WHITE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1818.]
Son of Mr. Martin White, formerly a wine-merchant of Portsea.
This officer was made lieutenant in 1800; commander, Sept. 25, 1806; and post-captain, Dec. 7, 1818. He has commanded the Shamrock, surveying vessel, employed on the coasts of England, Jersey, Guernsey, &c. ever since the commencement of 1817.
Agents.– Messrs. Barnett and King.
JOHN COOKESLEY, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1818.]
Served as midshipman, and master’s-mate, on board the Polyphemus 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral (afterwards Sir Robert) Kingsmill, on the Irish station, from June 1794, until promoted into the Trusty 50, armed en flutes Dec. 16, 1799. At the close of the French revolutionary war, he received the Turkish gold medal for his services during the Egyptian expedition; and on the renewal of hostilities, in 1803, he was appointed to the Zebra bomb. Captain William Beauchamp, in which vessel we find him present at the bombardment of Havre, in July and Aug. 1804[1]. He next became senior lieutenant of the Constance 24, Captain Anselm John Griffiths, employed in the blockade of the river Elbe; and subsequently first of the Gibraltar 80, in which ship he continued from the summer of 1805 until the promotion that took place after Lord Gambier’s court-martial in 1809; when he was advanced to
