captured two vessels laden with grain. On the 14th of the same month, Lieutenant Delafosse was wounded in another boat affair at the island of Melera. We next find him first of the Wye 24, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas F. Fremantle, on the Guernsey and Jersey station, in 1815. His subsequent appointments were, – Jan. 20th, 1816, to the Dover troop-ship. Captain Robert H. Rogers, at Sheerness; and April 11th, 1816, to the Hebrus 36, Captain Edmund Palmer, C.B., of which frigate he was senior lieutenant at the memorable battle of Algiers. His promotion to the rank of commander took place Sept. 16th, 1816.
In 1828, this officer was appointed by his royal patron, then Lord High Admiral, an Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard, in Dorsetshire. On the 3d January 1831, the following testimony was borne to his activity and zeal while employed on that service:–
“The magistrates of Christchurch having been on all occasions, during the late disturbed state of the country, readily attended to, and their wishes anticipated in more instances than one, for the preservation of the public peace, by the officers and men of the Preventive Service, are happy to take this opportunity of offering their best thanks to both; particularly to Commander Delafosse, Lieutenants Franklin, Prowse, and Butcher, and Mr. Bennett, for their distinguished zeal and alacrity in co-operating with them on the measures adopted for the security of the peace and property of his Majesty’s subjects.”
On the completion of his period of service in the Coast Guard, April 1831, Commander Delafosse received a letter, couched in very handsome terms, from the Comptroller-General. He has ever since been enjoying the blessings of half-pay, although periodically requesting employment. This officer married, Aug. 12th, 1820, Sophia, daughter of the Rev. George Young, M.A., of Lambeth Terrace.
DOUGLAS COX, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of an old officer of the army, who was in the artillery with General Burgoyne, at the unfortunate convention of Saratoga, Oct. 1777,[1] previous to which he had been
