wards successively served under Captains William Brown, Charles Lydiard, and Archibald Collingwood Dickson, in the Kite brig and Veteran 64, on the North Sea and Baltic stations[1].
In April, 1803, Mr. Riddell, who had been serving on board one of the guard-ships at Plymouth, during the short peace of Amiens, joined the Sceptre 64, and proceeded with his former captain, then Sir Archibald C. Dickson, to the East India station, where he was appointed lieutenant of the same ship, in 1804; his commission, however, was not confirmed by the Admiralty until Oct. 5, 1805. He returned home from thence, invalided on account of ill health, in April, 1807.
Mr. Riddell’s next appointment was, in July following, to the Orion 74, and he continued in that ship, the latter part of the time as senior lieutenant, under Sir Archibald C. Dickson, in the North Sea and Baltic, until his advancement to the rank of commander, Feb. 1 . 1812. From Dec. 8 in that year, until Nov. 15, 1816, he commanded the Britomart of 10 guns, successively employed off the Scheldt and the Texel, on the Irish and Portsmouth stations, and in the brilliant expedition against Algiers[2].
Captain Riddell assumed the name and arms of Carré, in conformity to the will of his maternal uncle, Alexander Carré, Esq. who died in 1817, bequeathing to him the small but old family estate of Cavers Carré, where he has ever since resided. He obtained post rank, Aug. 12, 1819.
Sir GEORGE AUGUSTUS WESTPHAL, Knt.
[Post-Captain of 1819.]
Was a midshipman of Nelson’s flag-ship, and wounded, at Trafalgar: his first commission bears date Aug. 15, 1806. We next find him serving as senior lieutenant of the Belleisle 74, Captain (now Sir George) Cockburn, and commanding a subdivision of gun-boats during the attack on Flushing, between the 8th and 15th August, 1809. Early in the following year he was appointed, with the same officer, to the Implacable of
