redoubt on Point Pesquies, five days after the above disaster[1]. His first commission bears date Sept. 1st, 1807.
During the last five years of the war, Lieutenant Smith was a prisoner in France; having been captured by two national luggers, while commanding a boat belonging to the Lyra sloop, Captain William Bevians, and employed in burning the enemy’s ships in Aix roads, April 12th, 1809[2]. He was made a commander, June 15th, 1814; appointed, May 6th, 1815, and Jan. 1st, 1817, to the Pincher and Cherokee, sloops; and advanced to the rank of captain, Aug. 16th, 1825.
Agent.– John Chippendale, Esq.
GEORGE GOSLING, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1825.]
Was born in London, Mar. 30th, 1790; and entered the royal navy as midshipman, on board the Ganges 74, Captain (afterwards Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas F.) Fremantle, in Aug. 1800. About eight months after this he witnessed one of the most bloody conflicts on record, the Ganges being attached to the division under Lord Nelson at the attack and destruction of the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen, April 2d, 1801[3]. She was afterwards successively employed in the Baltic, Channel, and West Indies.
Early in 1802, Mr. Gosling joined the Robust 74, Captain William Henry Jervis, at Jamaica; from whence he returned home, and was paid off at Portsmouth, in the month of July. On the 5th of Nov. in the same year, he was received on board the Driver sloop, Captain Francis William Fane, with whom he served until the renewal of hostilities, in May, 1803. Me was then removed to the Ville de Paris 110, Captain (now Sir Tristram K.) Ricketts; and subsequently to the Magnificent 74, commanded by his friend Captain Jervis.
The Magnificent was at first employed in cruising off the S.W. coast of Ireland, and on her return from thence
