ascent in Mr. Green’s balloon from Hereford, Oct. 1827. In describing his aerial excursion, he says, “A field of sheep looked like so many mites crawling about a cheese; a waggon on the Weobly road reminded me of the vehicle of Queen Mab, ‘in size no bigger than a hazel nut, drawn by a team of little atomies;’ a church like a child’s toy, and other things in similar proportion.”
RIGHT HON. GEORGE VISCOUNT MANDEVILLE.
Deputy Lieutenant of, and M.P. for Huntingdonshire.
[Commander.]
Eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, late Captain-General and Governor of Jamaica. This officer was born on the 9th July, 1799; made a lieutenant on the 20th Nov. 1818; and advanced to the rank of commander July 19th, 1822. He married, Oct. 8th, in the latter year, the daughter of Lady Olivia Sparrow.
ROBERT GRAHAM DUNLOP, Esq.
[Commander.]
Passed his examination, at Portsmouth, in the summer of 1810; and was slightly wounded whilst serving as master’s-mate of the Scipion 74, (flag-ship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Robert Stopford,) and employed on shore at the reduction of Java, in 1811. His first commission bears date Feb. 7th, 1812. In the following year, being then a lieutenant of the Surveillante frigate. Captain Sir George R. Collier, on the north coast of Spain, he was again wounded, in one of the breaching batteries on the Chofre sand-hills, opened against the walls of St. Sebastian. He subsequently joined the Porcupine 22, flag-ship of the late Sir Charles V. Penrose, and was very actively employed in co-operation with Wellington’s army in the neighbourhood of Bayonne and Bourdeaux[1].
On the 2d April, 1814, the advanced boats of the British
