period of Capt. Cochrane's services in this part of the world, his zeal and ability were repeatedly noticed and approved of, and named in the public despatches both by Lieut.-Gen. Hutchinson, who succeeded the gallant Abercromby, and also by Admiral Lord Keith. The treaty of Amiens taking place, the ships were ordered home, and in February 1802 Capt. Cochrane arrived in the Ajax at Portsmouth. In the same year, he was returned to Parliament for the boroughs of Dumfermline, Stirling, &c. On the war with France in 1803, Capt. Cochrane was appointed to the Northumberland, of 74 guns. A promotion taking place the following year, Capt. Cochrane, on the 23rd of April, became RearAdmiral of the Blue, and hoisted his flag on board the Northumberland, and was sent to observe the movements of the Spanish ships in Ferrol. While in this command, Admiral Cochrane obtained information that French troops were marching through Spain for that port, and also that a considerable Spanish force was collecting there, and an armament in a great degree of forwardness. This important information the Admiral forwarded to Government, owing to which, directions were issued for the interception of, and laying an embargo on, the Spanish treasure ships, that periodically returned about this time from South America. From this station, Admiral Cochrane was despatched with six sailof-the-line in quest of a French fleet of five sail-of-the-line, three frigates, two brigs, and a schooner, with 4000 troops on board, which had escaped from Rochefort the latter end of 1804. No tidings were obtained of their destination until Admiral Cochrane arrived at Barbadoes, from whence, having refitted, he sailed the 5th April for Jamaica. The French had managed their affairs so secretly, that they reached St. Domingo, after having committed every possible mischief, into which they put supplies, &c. and eventually returned to France without having been seen by any of the numerous ships that were upon the look-out for them. Admiral Cochrane then had the command on the Leeward Island station, and upon Nelson arriving at Barbadoes in quest of the combined French and Spanish fleets, joined the squadron under the orders of that hero. The enemy were not, however, to be found, and Lord Nelson returned from that quarter. In the early part of the year 1806, a squadron escaped from Brest for the relief of San Domingo. Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth lost no time in pursuing them, and upon arriving at the Leeward Islands, effected a junction with Admiral Cochrane. The fleet proceeded to San Domingo, and on the 6th February, discovered the enemy's squadron, consisting of five sail-of-the-line, two frigates, and a corvette. No time was lost in commencing action. The weather division consisted of the Superb, 74, Admiral Sir J. Thomas Duckworth, Capt. Keates; Northumberland, 74, Admiral Cochrane; Spencer, 74; and Agamemnon, 64. Lee division, Conqueror, 74, Admiral Louis; Donegal and Atlas of 74 guns each; Acasta and Magicienne frigates; Epervier and Kingfisher sloops. The action continued with the greatest vigour on both sides, and ended in the Imperiale of 120, and Diomede, 84 guns, being driven on shore, and ultimately set fire to and burnt. The other ships, viz. L'Alexandre, 84; Jupiter, 74; and Le Brave, 74; were finally secured and sent to Jamaica; the frigate and corvette effecting their escape. The Northumberland lost her mainmast, and was so disabled as to render it necessary for the Agamemnon to accompany her into port. The enemy lost 700 men, killed and wounded. The loss in our ships was severe, and consisted of 74 killed and 264 wounded. For this important service, the thanks of both Houses of Parliament were voted, and also those of the Corporation of the City of London, accompanied by the freedom, and a sword of one hundred guineas value to Admiral Cochrane. The Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's Coffeehouse also presented him with a vase of 300l. value, and the honour of a Knight of the Bath was also conferred upon Admiral Cochrane. Sir Alexander Cochrane hoisted his flag on board the Belleisle, of 74 guns, and in 1806 assisted at the reduction of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, islands belonging to Denmark, in conjunction with Gen. Bowyer. In 1808, the islands of Mariegalante and Deseadre surrendered to the Cerberus, Capt. Selby, belonging to the squadron of Sir A. Cochrane. On the 31st of January 1809, an attack was made upon Martinique, under the orders of Lieut.-Gen. Beckwith and Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, when, after much severe fighting, the island was finally in possession of the British on the 24th of February. When this important information was received, the thanks of both Houses of Parliament were voted to both the gallant officers under whose directions it had been accomplished, and also to the brave soldiers and seamen under their respective orders. In the following year, Sir Alexander Cochrane was appointed Governor and Commander-in-chief at Guadaloupe, which he held about three years, and was presented with an address of regret on his departure by the French inhabitants of that island. He then proceeded to assume the command at the North American coast, with his flag in the Tonnant, of 80 guns, in which ship, in 1815, he returned home, and remained unemployed until he was appointed 1st Feb. 1821, Commander-in-chief at Plymouth, which he held for the usual term of three years. Sir Alexander Cochrane was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, Oct. 25th 1809; Admiral, August 12th 1819; and upon the Knighthood of the Bath being extended into three classes in June 1815, became a Grand Cross of that Order. He married in 1788, Maria widow of Capt. Sir Jacob Waite, Bart. R.N. by whom he had several children, one, Capt. Sir Thomas Cochrane, Knt. is Governor of Newfoundland; and a daughter is the wife of Capt. Sir Thomas Troubridge, Bart. R.N. Member of Parliament for Sandwich, and Captain of the Stag frigate. The remains of this lamented officer have been deposited in the cemetery of Père la Chaise. His funeral was attended, besides all his immediate relatives on the spot, by all the naval and military officers in Paris, and many private friends he had formed in France, amongst whom were Baron Hyde de Neuville, Viscount de Chabot, M. Ďu Buc St. Olympe, &c. MEMOIR OF THE SERVICES OF GEN. SIR GEORGE DON, G.C.B. & G.C.H. THIS veteran officer commenced his military career as an Ensign in the 51st Foot, so far back as the 26th December 1770. He was appointed Lieutenant 3rd June 1774; Major, by brevet, 25th November 1783; Major, 59th foot, 12th April 1784; Lieutenant-Colonel, 9th April 1789; Colonel, 26th February 1795; Major-General, 1st January 1798; Colonel 7th West India Regiment, 22nd November 1799; Lieutenant-General, 1st January 1803; Colonel 96th foot, 10th October 1805; General, 4th June 1814; Colonel 36th foot, 4th April 1818; from which corps he was removed 21st December 1829 to the 3rd foot. The earliest services of the subject of this memoir were under Generals Johnstone and Murray in the island of Minorca; he was Military Secretary and first Aide-de-camp to the latter, and placed at the head of the staff during the siege of Fort St. Philip's in 1781. During the peace between the American and French wars he served at Gibraltar, where he commanded the 59th regiment. In Flanders, Holland, and Germany he served under the Duke of York, Gen. Lord Harcourt, Count Wallmoden, and Gen. Sir David Dundas. In the winter campaign of 1794 in Holland, he was Deputy Adjutant-General, and acted as Adjutant-General to the British army; and in that year he was appointed Aide-de-camp to the King. Colonel Don continued to serve in Germany till 1798, and was employed upon various military missions. On his promotion to the rank of Major-General, he was appointed to the command of the Isle of Wight. In 1799 he was again sent to Germany, and employed in that year with the expedition to the Helder. At the close of the campaign of 1799, when sent out with a flag of truce, he was unjustly made prisoner of war (see our Annals for 1799), and was not exchanged till June 1800, when he was again employed on the staff. During the short peace Gen. Don was second in command in Scotland, and on the breaking out of the war he was appointed to the command of the King's German Legion. In 1805 he was sent to the north of Germany, with a corps of 14,000 men; and on this force being withdrawn from the Continent in the following year, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor in the Island of Jersey. From the latter situation he was removed, in 1809, to the command of Walcheren, which he held until that island was evacuated. He resumed the command of the Island of Jersey in 1810, where he continued till appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. Gen. Don was for some years Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge, and at the time of his death was a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, and of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order; also Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Military Merit of France, conferred upon him by Louis the Eighteenth; Governor of Scarborough Castle, and Colonel of the 3rd foot. General Sir George Don, having died at Gibralta on the 1st of 376 MEMOIR OF GEN. SIR GEORGE DON, G.C.B. & G.C.H. January, his funeral took place in that Garrison on the 4th of that month. The following General Order relative to the ceremonies observed on this melancholy occasion, was issued by the Lieutenant-Governor, Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Houston, G.C.B. &c. G. O. Order to be observed at the Faneral of the late General Sir George Don, G.C.B., G.C.H. Head Quarters, Gibraltar, 2nd Jan. 1832. G.C.M.M., &c. &c. No. 1.-The Garrison will be under arms at half-past ten o'clock, on Wednesday next, the 4th inst. at the following stations, viz. :— The 94th Regiment, 60th or King's Royal Rifle Corps, and 53rd Regiment, at the King's Bastion, left in front. The 42nd Royal Highlanders, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusileers, and 12th Regiment, on the Governor's Parade. The Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners will form in Church street. A party of 24 Gunners from the Royal Artillery, with their side-arms only, will parade at the Line Wall House, for the purpose of carrying the corpse. No. 2.-The Procession will move along the Line Wall, by the Main Guard, and proceed to the New Protestant Church. PROCESSION. Four Grenadier Companies, under the command of Lieut. Colonel Turbevill, of the 12th Regiment, will receive the corpse and lead the procession. Four Field Pieces. The Bands of the two senior regiments, 12th and 23rd R. W. F. Servants, two and two. Dr. Farrell, Inspector-General of Hospitals, and Dr. Dix, 94th Regiment. PALL BEARERS. Lieut.-Col. Considine, 53rd Regiment, CHIEF MOURNERS. Lieut. Col. Budgeon, Royal Engineers, and Lieut.-Colonel Falla, Town Major. SUPPORTERS. Capt. Prince, Royal Engineers, and Francis Stokes, Esq. Friends of the deceased. Staff and Departments. Officers of Corps and Regiments, by fours. Officers of the Royal Navy. Personal Staff of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor. The Troops will be formed in extended order from their left, facing inwards, and after the procession has passed, will follow in succession by sections from the left. After the Corpse is in the grave, three rounds, of eleven pieces of artillery, will be fired from the King's Bastion. The whole will be under the superintendence of Colonel Mann, the second in command. Only one Officer per company will fall in with the troops, all the others will form part of the procession. The remains of this gallant veteran were consigned to their last mansion, at the hour and in the manner prescribed by the foregoing Order, amidst universal demonstrations of sincere and deep-felt sorrow. Nor was this feeling confined to the British garrison. were also fired from the opposite Spanish town of Algeciras during Minute guns the procession, and a round of eleven pieces of heavy artillery, when the body was understood to be in the grave. The Spanish General Monet, with his two sons and Aides-de-camp, personally attended the funeral, together with a large number of the officers of rank from the neighbourhood. MEMOIR OF THE SERVICES OF THE LATE VICE-ADMIRAL ROBERT BARTON. THE entry of Mr. Barton into the Royal Navy commenced at an early period. In 1769 he was received into the Princess Augusta, at Deptford, where he remained until removed. In 1775, having completed his period of service, he was made one of the Lieutenants of the Orpheus frigate, on the coast of America; and in 1782 he was promoted to the rank of Master and Commander, and to command the Bustler, of sixteen guns, employed in the Channel fleet; at the commencement of the war with France, in 1793, he commanded the Hawke sloop of war, and proceeded with some merchant vessels under convoy to the West Indies. In April 1794 he was promoted to the rank of Post Captain, and in the following year to command the Lapwing, of thirty-four guns, employed in the North Seas, and soon after sailed for St. Kitt's with a convoy. During the time the Lapwing was lying at St. Kitt's (Nov. 1796) Capt. Barton received information that two French ships of war, with some small vessels and four hundred troops, under Victor Hughes, were making an attack upon Anguilla, and he lost no time in proceeding after them, but, owing to adverse winds, he did not reach the island until the 27th, when he found the enemy had landed the preceding day, and had committed many acts of cruelty, burnt the houses, and destroyed all the property they were able to get hold of. On the Lapwing's appearance the enemy re-embarked, and Capt. Barton prevented their escape by bringing both the French ships to action, which contest lasted two hours, when the largest, Le Décius of twenty-six guns and two brass field-pieces, with 133 seamen and 200 soldiers on board, struck her colours, having had eighty men killed and forty wounded. The other vessel, La Vaillante, a brig of six guns, thirty-six and forty-two-pounders, with forty-five seamen and ninety soldiers on board, ran on shore on the island of St. Martin, and was destroyed by the Lapwing's fire. On the following day Capt. Barton discovered two French frigates, and to prevent his prize from being recaptured set her on fire, and was himself chased by them into St. Kitt's, where he soon after received a deputation from the inhabitants expressive of their thanks for his services at Anguilla. In the following year Capt. Barton was so fortunate as to capture eight privateers; and was soon after removed from the Lapwing to the Concord, of forty-two guns, and continued to cruise with equal success, during which time he captured eleven more vessels of various descriptions. Capt. Barton returned home the latter end of 1799, and was subsequently employed in the Concord, both on the Coast of Portugal and at Newfoundland. On the 26th Jan. 1801, he fell in with M. Ganteaume's squadron off Cape Finisterre. At daylight on the following morning, Capt. Barton, having during the night cast off a Swedish ship he had in tow, was enabled to bring one of the enemy's frigates, which had previously chased him, to close action, and after being so engaged for forty minutes completely silenced his opponent's fire, but the |