BARTHOLOMEW JAMES, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
This officer was made a Lieutenant May 6, 1779; commanded a letter of marque belonging to Jamaica, at the commencement of the French revolutionary war; and served as an Agent of Transports, at the capture of Martinique, in 1794; after which he joined the Boyne, a second rate, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis. In 1797, we find him commanding El Corso of 18 guns, on the Mediterranean station; and in the following year, conducting the Canopus, (late Franklin) one of Lord Nelson’s prizes, from Gibraltar to England. His post commission bears date Dec. 24, 1798. At the renewal of hostilities in 1803, he was appointed to a command in the Sea Fencible service on the coast of Cornwall. His youngest daughter is the lady of Captain T. B. Sulivan, R.N. C.B.
Agent.– John Chippendale, Esq.
ROBERT LEWIS FITZGERALD, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1798.]
This officer is descended from a younger branch of the very ancient and noble house of Leinster, in the kingdom of Ireland, and nearly related to the Earl of Kingston. He entered the naval service in March 1786, as a Midshipman, on board the Winchelsea frigate, commanded by the present Viscount Exmouth, with whom tie served on the Newfoundland station for a period of three years. He afterwards joined the Centurion 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Philip Affleck, at Jamaica[1]; and during the West India campaign in 1794, we find him serving under Sir John Jervis, in the Boyne of 98 guns; from which ship he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, in the Avenger sloop of war.
Soon after his return to England, Lieutenant Fitzgerald obtained an appointment to the London, a second rate, carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral Colpoys; and in her he assisted at the capture of three French line-of-battle ships off l’Orient,
