and other ports, that are always on the look-out to rob and ruin them.” It has, indeed, been stated, that, during the last two years, he contributed more than 1000l. towards the feeding, clothing, and sheltering of numerous poor fellows, who, either from their own improvidence, their inability to obtain employment, or the villainy of land-sharks, had been reduced to the very extreme of destitution. “A better omen than this, of patriotic feeling, and attachment to the ‘wooden walls,’ is not often to be met with.”[1]
Agent.– T. Collier, Esq.
JOHN GORE (a), Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1821.]
Was made commander, June 23rd, 1808; appointed to the Doterel of 18 guns, Feb. 13th, 1818; and posted, July 19th, 1821, on which day a general promotion took place in honor of his Majesty’s coronation. Of ten commanders made post, the junior had held the former rank upwards of nine years; the senior lieutenant promoted had been a commissioned officer nearly twenty-five years; and the whole of the midshipmen who then obtained advancement passed their examinations prior to December, 1813.
JOHN COOK CARPENTER, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1821.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in 1704; and conducted a fire-vessel into Aix roads, on the 11th April, 1809, for which service he was made commander immediately after the trial and most honorable acquittal of Lord Gambier, under whom he had then been for some time serving, in the Caledonia. His post commission bears date, July 19th, 1821.
- ↑ United Service Journal. No. VI. p. 756 et seq.
