ment of eighty men. She is a most complete vessel, quite new, copper-bottomed, well found, and never yet at sea, and in every respect fit for his Majesty’s service, only wanting men. I mean to take four of her guns out, for the purpose of arming four schuyts to act hereabouts, either on the defensive or offensive. I have the honor to be, &c.
“Statement of the British and Dutch force.”
“British. – 40 guns and 180 men. Dutch. – 54 guns and 380 men.
“To Vice-Admiral Mitchell.”
Lieutenant Gilmour’s promotion took place, Sept. 28th, 1799; and he subsequently commanded the Hermes, of 18 guns, and Traveller 14, on the North Sea station. He married, in June 1816, Eliza, daughter of the late Mr. Edward Dean, surgeon, of Stoke, near Gosport, co. Hants; and died on the 17th Sept. 1829.
JOHN THICKNESSE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of the late Captain Philip Thicknesse, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Landguard Fort, grandfather of the present Lord Audiey, and author of several well-known literary productions, by his third wife, the only child of Mr. Ford, Clerk of the Arraigns, and niece to Gilbert Ford, Esq., Attorney-General for the island of Jamaica.
This officer was made a lieutenant in 1795; and taken prisoner, while commanding the Charlotte schooner, off St. Domingo, in Nov. 1799. He obtained his present rank on the 29th Jan. 1800; and was subsequently appointed to the command of the Pelican sloop. On the 9th Nov. in the same year, that vessel was driven on the rocks in St. Aubyn’s Bay, Jersey, during a tremendous gale, which proved fatal to her consort, the Havick 18, Captain Philip Bartholomew; but providentially, the officers and crews of both vessels, together with those of the Lion armed cutter, similarly situated, were enabled to escape, after nearly six hours exposure to a sea running mountains high, and which made so clear a breach over them that they expected every moment would be their last. On the 14th Oct. 1806, Commander Thicknessse,
