slain, wounded, and missing[1]. The loss sustained by the British ships amounted to 9 killed and 53 wounded. For his bravery on this occasion, his Swedish Majesty conferred upon Captain Martin the insignia of a Knight of the Order of the Sword.
In the following year, the Implacable was stationed on the coast of Finland, where the boats of a small squadron under the orders of Captain Martin, performed several brilliant exploits in cutting out the enemy’s armed vessels and transports.
On the 31st July, 1810, a general promotion of Flag-Officers took place, on which occasion the subject of this memoir obtained the command of the Royal Sovereign yacht. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Aug. 1st, in the following year, and soon after returned to the Baltic, with his flag in the Aboukir of 74 guns.
During his continuance on that station, the Rear-Admiral, by the judicious disposition of the force under his command, contributed greatly to the defence of Riga, at that period besieged by the French army. After his return from thence he appears to have served for some time as second in command at Plymouth. He received the honor of Knighthood in the summer of 1814; was nominated a K.C.B. Jan. 2, 1815; succeeded Sir T. B. Thompson as Comptroller of the Navy in 1816; became a Vice-Admiral, Aug. 12, 1819; and was sworn in a burgess of Lymington, Aug. 22, 1821.
Residence.– 8, Somerset Place.
JOHN LAWFORD, Esq
Vice-Admiral of the White.
At the period of the Spanish armament, in 1790, this officer commanded the Hound sloop, stationed in the Channel. During the two succeeding years we find him in the same vessel at Jamaica. He was made post, Dec. 1st, 1793, into the Convert of 36 guns, which vessel was lost on the
- ↑ The Sewolod was burnt by the captors.
