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the end of the same year. We afterwards find him successively serving on board the Sceptre, Marlborough, and San Domingo, third rates, from which latter ship he was promoted into the Success 32, armed en flute, Nov. 13th, 1813, His next appointment was, in Jan. 1814, to the Epervier 18, Commander Richard Walter Wales, the capture of which vessel, on the 29th April following, by the United States’ sloop Peacock, has been narrated in Supp. Part IV. p. 127, et seq. We subsequently find him serving in the Astraea frigate. Captain Edward Kittoe; and as flag-lieutenant to his uncle. Rear-Admiral John Harvey, commander-in-chief on the Leeward Islands station. He obtained his present rank on the 2d April 1819.

This officer’s only brother, Henry Wise Harvey, is a lieutenant in the navy. His eldest sister, now deceased, was married to Commander George Hilton.



JAMES BARNWELL TATTNALL, Esq.
[Commander.]

Was born in 1790; and entered the royal navy in Sept. 1803, as midshipman on board the Leander 50, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell, commander-in-Chief on the Halifax station, where he was soon afterwards removed into the Boston frigate. Captain (now Vice-Admiral) John Erskine Douglas, He subsequently served under Lord Cochrane, in the Pallas 32, and conducted into port one of the richest prizes taken by that frigate, at the commencement of the Spanish war, in 1805.

On the night of April 5th, 1806, the boats of the Pallas, under Lieutenant John Haswell, captured the French national corvette Tapageuse, of fourteen long 12-pounders and 95 men, lying about twenty miles above the shoals of Cordovan, in the Bourdeaux river, and under the protection of two strong batteries. During their absence, three ships were observed bearing down to the British frigate, making many signals, and soon perceived to be enemies. “In a few minutes,” says Lord Cochrane, “the anchor was weighed, and, with the remainder of the officers and crew, we chased