EVAN NEPEAN, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was wrecked in the Hussar frigate, and taken prisoner while serving as midshipman under the present Vice-Admiral Stephens, in Feb. 1804[1]. From this period to the end of the French war, he remained in captivity. He was made a lieutenant on the 13th Feb. 1815; appointed to the Liffey 50, Commodore Charles Grant, fitting out for the East India station, Oct. 22d, 1821; and promoted to the rank of commander, Oct. 22d, 1823. This officer married, June 7th, 1825, Mary, eldest daughter of Captain Stuart, R.N.
WILLIAM PRICE HAMILTON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Entered the royal navy in 1810; and was appointed flag-lieutenant to Sir Henry Blackwood, commander in chief on the East India station, Aug. 20th, 1820; removed from the Leander 50 to the Topaze 46, Captain Charles Richardson, July 29th, 1821; promoted to the rank of commander Nov. 13th, 1823; and appointed to the Comus sloop, fitting out for the West India and North American station, Oct. 31st, 1832. He married, in 1831, Harriet, only daughter of the late R. H. Faulconer, of Lewes, co. Sussex.
GEORGE HILLIER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of a deceased warrant officer, and brother to Commander C. W. Hillier. He was made a lieutenant on the 16th Jan. 1798; and served with great credit, under Sir W. Sidney Smith, at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in March, April, and May, 1799. During the siege of that Syrian fortress, he was removed from the Alliance 44, armed en flûte, to the Tigre 80, bearing the broad pendant of that chivalrous officer, with whom we find him visiting the Holy
