with the Spanish authorities for a suspension of hostilities, till the official accounts of the late political changes in Europe could be received from the junta in the mother country.
In the summer of 1809, Captain Lee, who had returned to England with Commodore Moore, assisted at the occupation of the island of Walcheren, by the forces under Sir Richard J. Strachan and the Earl of Chatham, and from that period was stationed in the North Sea until 1812; when the Monarch being found unfit for further service, was put out of commission at Chatham[1]. Captain Lee was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral on the 12th Aug. in the same year; nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815; and on the 31st May following, obtained the royal authority to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, which had been conferred upon him by the Prince Regent of that kingdom, in testimony of the high sense H.R.H. entertained of his great merit, and of the services rendered by him to the House of Braganza.
Sir Richard Lee’s commission as Vice-Admiral, bears date July 19,1821.
Residence.– Walmer, Kent.
PETER HALKETT, Esq
Vice-Admiral of the Blue; and a Member of the Committee of the Kinloch Bequest to the Scottish Corporation[2].
This officer is the second son of the late Sir John Halkett, Bart.[3], of Pitferran, N.B. by Mary, daughter of the Hon.
- ↑ The Monarch was built at Deptford about 1765, and broke up in 1812.
- ↑ The Scottish Corporation for the relief of Natives of Scotland, who have acquired no parochial settlement in England, was founded by King Charles II, and re-incorporated in 1775. The Kinloch Bequest is a trust to the Hospital, for annuities to 500 seamen and soldiers who have been wounded in the public service.
- ↑ John Wedderburn, of Gosford, Esq., who, upon failure of issue of his uncle, Sir Peter Halkett, second Baronet of Gosford, and third of the name of Halkett, of Pitferran, succeeded to the estate agreeably to the entail, and also to the dignity of Baronet; he subsequently denuded himself of the estate of Gosford, in favour of his immediate younger brother, and took the name and title of Sir John Halkett, of Pitferran, Bart. He served as a Captain of the army at the reduction of Guadaloupe, in 1758; and died Aug. 7, 1793.
