We have stated, in p. 206 of Vol. III. Part I., that Captain Jervoise was instrumental in saving the lives of the Marquis, and Marchioness of Chandos, and their infant daughter, when the mansion in which these noble personages were residing was accidentally burnt down, Oct. 30th, 1820. “The conflagration,” says a daily journalist, “was so sudden, that the inmates had only time to escape with their lives. Captain Jervoise, who first discovered the fire, will, it is said, be a very considerable sufferer by the event; and it is rather remarkable, that this gentleman once before lost all his personal effects from a similar deplorable occurrence: his present loss, however, he supported with a coolness truly characteristic of a British seaman.”
Captain Jervoise, subsequently commanded the Dispatch sloop, on the Mediterranean station. His next appointment was, July 28th, 1825, to the Pandora 18, fitting out for the East Indies.
On the 14th of Dec. following, being then off the Canaries, the Pandora was caught in a white squall, which laid her down, and filled the waist with water. On the 19th of the same month, she was obliged to cut away two anchors, and throw several guns overboard, in a dreadful storm from S.W.; and, being heavily laden, her fate was for many hours doubtful. On the 16th of Mar. 1820, she parted from her only remaining anchor, in a S.E. gale at the Cape of Good Hope, and was again placed in imminent danger. On the 23d, June, 1827, the following letter was addressed to her commander, by Captain James John Gordon Bremer, C.B., of the Tamar 26, then at Madras.
“Sir,– Having transmitted to Rear-Admiral Gage an account of the proceedings of the detachments from this ship and the Pandora, which were landed under your command, at Burburra, on the 11th January last, I am directed by the Rear-Admiral to offer to you his thanks for your exertions and conduct on that occasion, and to request you will convey his approbation to the officers, seamen, and marines of the Pandora.
