perintended the embarkation of our troops and the French royalists; which service was conducted with great order and regularity. His post commission bears date July 5, 1797.
Captain Ogilvy’s next appointment was to the Magicienne frigate; and in her he appears to have made several valuable captures. In February 1801, when the French Admiral Gantheaume put to sea from Brest, with seven sail of the line and two frigates, the Magicienne was attached to a squadron of equal force, under the orders of Sir Robert Calder, detached from the Channel fleet in pursuit of them. The ships having been dispersed by a heavy gale of wind, during which the Montagu 74 was dismasted, the Telegraph schooner foundered, and the Magicienne had nearly shared the same fate, Captain Ogilvy, after tracing the enemy to the Mediterranean, followed the Rear-Admiral to Jamaica, with the information of their real destination.
Sir William Ogilvy has not been employed since the peace of Amiens; about which period he married the eldest daughter of the late James Morley, Esq. His superannuation as a Rear-Admiral took place December 6, 182] .
Residence.– Dundee, Scotland.
SIR ROBERT BARLOW, KNT.
[Superannuated Rear-Admiral.]
Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath; Fellow of the Royal Society; and late Commissioner of Chatham Dock-Yard.
This officer is the eldest son of the late William Barlow, of Bath, co. Somerset, Esq. by Hilare, daughter of Robert Butcher, of Walthamstow, in Essex, Esq. and was born in London, December 25, 1757. His youngest surviving brother, George H. Barlow, formerly Governor-General of India, was created a Baronet June 29, 1803. The family appear to have been settled originally at Fordbridge, in Staffordshire.
We are not acquainted with the exact period at which Mr. Barlow entered the naval service; but we know that he served with credit under the late Earl Howe and Lord Mulgrave, during the whole of the American war. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place in November, 1778; and he appears to have assisted at the capture of la Minerve, a French frigate of 32 guns and 316 men, Jan. 4, 1781, and to
