with that corps in Ireland, during the alarming rebellion, in 1798. Their grandmother was a daughter of Sir Salathiel Lovell, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, whose other daughters married into the Barrington and Stanhope families: their mother was the daughter and heiress of Colonel Lovell, who died at the Cape of Good Hope.
The subject of this memoir entered the navy, in May 1799, at the age of eleven years; and first went to sea in the Renown 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, to whom he had been recommended by the late Marquis of Buckingham, a nobleman of the highest character.
During the winter of 1799, the Renown was employed off Ushant, under the orders of Lord Bridport and Sir Alan Gardner; but on Earl St. Vincent assuming the command of the grand fleet. Sir John B. Warren was sent to cruise between Brest and Rochefort, on which station the boats of his squadron captured and destroyed, in June and July 1800, la Therése French national ship of 20 guns, 7 other armed vessels, 9 sail of merchantmen laden with government supplies, 3 land batteries, and the same number of magazines[1]. The result of an expedition against Ferrol, under Sir J. B. Warren and Lieutenant-General Sir James Pulteney, has has been stated at p. 220 et seq. of Vol. I. Part I. On the 29th Aug. 1800, a detachment of boats, under Lieutenant Henry Burke, of the Renown, captured la Guipe French ship privateer, of 18 long 9-pounders and 161 men, near the narrows of Redondella, in Vigo bay. On this occasion, the British had 3 men killed and 20, including Lieutenants Burke, John Henry Holmes, and James Nourse, wounded; the enemy’s loss amounted to 25 slain and 40 wounded. Shortly afterwards, Sir John B. Warren gave over the command of the armament to Sir Edward Pellew, and proceeded on a cruise off the Western Islands, in hopes of falling in with some of the Spanish treasure ships from South America. The manner in which the Renown was employed between Nov. 1800 and July 1804, is described in our memoir of
