Jan. 8th, 1815, is stated in our memoir of Captain Rowland Money, C.B., under whom Lieutenant Franklin was then serving, at the head of the Bedford’s small arm men.
After the failure of the principal attack upon the enemy’s lines, the armament proceeded to Isle Dauphine, where Sir John Lambert, who had succeeded to the command of the army on the fall of Sir Edward Pakenham, addressed the following letter to Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane:
“The operations on which the two services are engaged being interrupted for the present, and as there is some uncertainty whether they may again he resumed, I wish to take the opportunity, previous to your sailing, of expressing how much the army is indebted to the active co-operations and zealous services of the navy.
“It would be presumption in me to call to your notice the distinguished flag-officers and captains of the fleet under your command; but there are a few individuals of junior rank whose exertions and intelligence have so repeatedly been the admiration of the general and superior officers under whose orders they have been acting on shore, at every service, from the first arrival of the forces under the late Major-General Ross on the coast of America, that I feel I should be deficient in my duty if I did not lay those names before you, in the hope that they may be transmitted by you to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, sanctioned by your approbation and recommendation for promotion, viz.; Lieutenants Curzon and Haymes, who have each acted as aide-de-camp to general officers; Lieutenants Fletcher, of H.M.S. Norge; Franklin, of the Bedford; and Foster, of the Asia. Lieutenant Haymes received the last words of the much lamented Major-General Ross, and afterwards was attached to the late Major-General Gibbs. I have the honor to be, &c.
A copy of this letter was transmitted by Sir Alexander Cochrane to the Admiralty.
Lieutenant Franklin’s next appointments were, – Sept. 7th, 1815, to be first of the Forth 40, Captain Sir William Bolton, which ship was paid off after conveying the Duchess d’Angoulême from England to Dieppe; – and, Jan. 14th, 1818, to command the Trent hired brig, under the orders of Captain Edward Buchan, to whom was assigned the task of inquiring into the state of the Polar Sea, to the northward of Spitzbergen, while another expedition, under Captain John
