On the 13th July, 1805, he had the good fortune to intercept the Hydra, Spanish private ship of war, of 28 guns and 192 men, three of whom were killed and several wounded, before she surrendered, in the following year, he assisted at the capture, and was charged with the destruction of l’Impetueux, of 74 guns, off Cape Henry[1].
Captain Poyntz subsequently commanded the Edgar, a third rate, in the Baltic. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Aug. 12, 1819.
Our officer married, Oct. 8, 1802, Miss F. Brail, of Hambleton, Hants.
RIGHT HON. JOHN LORD COLVILLE,
Rear-Admiral of the White; Commander-in-Chief on the Irish station; and one of the Sixteen Representative Peers of Scotland.
The family of Colville, in North Britain, sprang from that of the Colvilles in England, who accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy. The subject of this sketch is the eldest son of the late peer, and brother of the Hon. Sir Charles Colville, a Lieutenant-General in the army, who commanded at the capture of Cambray, June 24, 1815. He was born in the year 1765; entered the naval service at an early age; was a Lieutenant at the commencement of the war with the French republic; and commanded the Star sloop, in 1795, and until his promotion to the rank of Post-Captain, Dec. 6, 1796. We subsequently find him in the Ambuscade frigate, on the Jamaica station, from whence he returned to England on the 19th Jan. 1802. During the remainder of the short-lived peace, he was employed in the Channel for the suppression of smuggling.
Soon after the re-commencement of hostilities against France, Captain Colville was nominated to the command of the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Cumberland. His next appointment was, in the autumn of 1804, to the Romney, of 50 guns, in which ship he had the misfortune to be wrecked near the Texel, on the 22d Nov. following.
Previous to his departure from Holland, on being ex-
