actively employed under the immortal Nelson, during a most important part of his Lordship’s command on that station. In the summer of 1805, Captain Boyle exchanged into the Amphitrite, a Spanish prize frigate, and returned to England. His last appointment afloat was May 31, 1806, to the Royal William, bearing the flag of the Port Admiral at Spithead, the command of which ship he retained until the month of June, 1809, when he succeeded the late Captain Towry as a Commissioner of Transports. The controul of the dock-yard at Sheerness was confided to him in the summer of 1814; and some time after he was appointed, by an order in council, to superintend the bringing up of the arrears of the accounts left unaudited by the Transport Board at the time of its dissolution. He has recently obtained a seat at the Navy Board.
Commissioner Boyle married, in 1J99, Caroline Amelia, daughter of the late William Poyntz, of Midgham House, co. Berks, Esq. His son is a Lieutenant R.N.
ISAAC WOLLEY, Esq
Deputy Chairman of the Victualling Board.
[Retired Captain.]
This officer, a brother of Vice-Admiral Thomas Wolley, was educated at the celebrated maritime school formerly established at Chelsea, and which furnished the navy with many excellent officers. At the commencement of the French war in 1793, we find him holding the rank of Lieutenant, and commanding a large ship in the West India trade. He subsequently joined the Santa Margaritta frigate, commanded by the present Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, with whom he served on shore at the reduction of Martinique by the naval and military forces under Sir John Jervis and Sir Charles Grey[1].
- ↑ After the investiture of Fort Bourbon by the British, Captain Harvey landed at the head of 300 seamen and a party of marines from his own ship, the Solebay, and Nautilus, and instantly began to proceed with a 24-pounder and two other guns from the wharf in the Cul de sac Cohée towards Sourier, a post recently taken by Sir Charles Grey, and near which that General had established his head-quarters. After cutting a road through a thick wood for nearly a mile; making a sort of bridge, or rather passage, across a river, which they effected by filling it up with large stones and branches of trees; and levelling the banks of another river by the removal of immense fragments of rock, this persevering party, on the third day, to the astonishment of the whole army, got the 24-pounder to
