but this, like all his former efforts, proved unavailing, and he was again compelled to yield to a state of painful inactivity, whilst his more fortunate brother officers were reaping laurels, and laying the foundation of future ease for themselves, and competence for their families.
In Aug. 1813, the subject of this memoir was appointed to superintend the impress service at Gravesend; and he subsequently received a commission to command El Corso as a post ship, in consequence of his suggesting the propriety of placing the vessel destined to receive the men under the direct controul of the Regulating Captain; by which means, among other advantages, the prompt co-operation of her boats with those belonging to the establishment on shore, might always be depended upon.
El Corso was paid off at the termination of the war in 1814; but on the renewal of hostilities in the following year, Captain Carter commissioned the Port Mahon, and resumed his station on the river Thames, where he continued, under the orders of Sir Home Popham, till Aug. 12, 1816, since which he has not been employed.
Captain Carter married Sophia Holmes, youngest daughter of that excellent officer, the late Admiral Sir Richard Rodney Bligh, G.C.B., under whom he had so bravely fought at the commencement of the French revolutionary war. By that lady he has issue six sons and two daughters, the whole of whom are under age.
THOMAS BROWNE, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer entered the naval service at an early age as a Midshipman on board the Thetis frigate, commanded by Captain John Blankett, to whom he had been recommended by the late Hon. Admiral Barrington, whose patronage he enjoyed in consequence of a family connexion.
After serving for a considerable time in the Thetis, and witnessing Captain Blankett’s spirited conduct in resenting an insult offered to the British flag by a Venetian Commodore[1],
- ↑ During the general peace which succeeded the contest between Great Britain and her American colonies, the Thetis, on entering the bay of
