pleasure, assuring their Lordships that Rear-Admiral Malcolm’s zeal and exertions upon every occasion, could not be surpassed by any one.” Our officer was afterwards employed at the siege of Fort Boyer, on Mobile point, the surrender of which by capitulation on the 14th Feb., terminated the war between Great Britain and the United States of America.
At the extension of the Order of the Bath into three classes, Jan. 2, 1815, Rear-Admiral Malcolm was nominated a K.C.B.; and upon his arrival in England, hostilities against France having been renewed in consequence of the return of Napoleon Buonaparte from Elba, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the naval force ordered to co-operate with the Duke of Wellington and the allied armies, on which service he continued till after the final restoration of the Bourbons.
Sir Pulteney Malcolm struck his flag Sept. 26, 1815; and a few days afterwards had the gratification of receiving the following letter from the Duke of Wellington, with whom, as we have already shewn in the course of this memoir, he had been on four occasions associated in the public service[1].
“Sir.– I have received your letter, in which you have informed me of your return to England. I beg leave to return you my best thanks for the cordial and useful assistance I have invariably received from you in all the situations in which we have been placed together, and to assure you that it will always give me the greatest satisfaction to be placed in a situation to be in communication on service with you. – I have the honor to be, Sir,
“Your most obedient humble servant,
“Wellington.
“Admiral Sir P. Malcolm.”
Sir Pulteney’s last appointment was to the important office of Commander-in-Chief on the St. Helena station, where he continued from the spring of 1816, until towards the latter end of the following year. His advancement to the rank of Vice-Admiral took place, July 19, 1821. He married Jan. 18, 1809, Clementina, eldest daughter of the Hon. William Fullarton Elphinstone, a Director of the East India Company; niece of Admiral Viscount Keith, and cousin of the Hon, Vice-Admiral Fleeming.
Country Seat.– Irvine, Dumfrieshire.
