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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kempster, Ralph Richard Tomkin

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​KEMPSTER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 28.)
Ralph Richard Tomkin Kempster entered the Navy, 15 Jan. 1805, as a Volunteer, on board the Princess floating-battery, Capt. Sam. Martin Colquitt, lying in the River Mersey. Quitting the latter vessel in the following July, he served, during the remainder of the war, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, chiefly on the Home, West India, and Mediterranean’ stations, in the Boadicea 38, Capts. John Maitland and John Hatley, Satellite sloop, Capts. Robt. Evans and Hon. Willoughby Bertie, Dannemark 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, Rodney 74, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, and Prince 98, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton. In April, 1815 (after he had been also borne, as a Supernumerary for passage, on the books of the Snake, Tigre, and Tanais, Capts. Joseph Gape, John Halliday, and Joseph James, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Onyx 10, Capts. Smith Cobb and Chas. Strangways, then at Jamaica. On his return home for the purpose of being paid off in July, 1816, he found a commission awaiting him dated 1 Feb. 1815. His next and last appointment was, 27 Feb. 1823, to the Clio sloop, commanded by the officer last mentioned, with whom he was for three years employed in the North Sea.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kenderdine, John

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​KENDERDINE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
John Kenderdine entered the Navy, 22 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Caroline frigate, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, on accompanying whom, as Midshipman, into the Cressy 74 (commanded afterwards by Capt. Chas. Dashwood), he was in company with the St. George and Defence when those ships were lost on their passage home from the Baltic during a violent gale in Dec. 1811. He continued in the Cressy, on the West India and Home stations, until Feb. 1814; between which period and Aug. 1815 we find him employed, at Portsmouth, in North America, and at Plymouth, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Puissant 74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, Tonnant 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, Diadem 64, Capt. John Martin Hanchett, and St. George 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. He then took up a commission dated 7 March, 1815, and has since been on half-pay.
He married, in 1827, Elizabeth Harriet, daughter of Mr. Brutton, Governor of the County Prison, Stafford.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kemball, William Henry

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​KEMBALL. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
William Henry Kemball entered the Navy, 8 Nov. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Northumberland 74, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane on the West India station; where, from June, 1807, until the close of 1810, he served with Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Blonde and Statira frigates, and Neptune 98, assisting, during that period, at the capture of five privateers, carrying in the whole 58 guns and 515 men, as also at the destruction, previously to the fall of Guadeloupe, of the French 40-gun frigates Loire and Seine, together with a heavy battery by which they were defended, in Anse la Barque. He was next, between Dec. 1810 and Jan. 1814, employed in the Channel on board the Sceptre 74, Capt. Sam! Jas. Ballard, and Boyne 88, and Ville de Paris 110, both flag-ships of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. He then rejoined Sir Alex. Cochrane in the Tonnant 80, and, continuing with him until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 Feb. 1815, bore an active part in consequence in the hostilities with America, and was present in the operations against New Orleans. He has not been afloat since the general peace.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kempthorn, Charles Henry

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​KEMPTHORN. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 24; h-p., 16.)
Charles Henry Kempthorn, born 12 Oct. 1792, is son of the late Capt. T. Kempthorn.
This officer entered the Navy, 11 Nov. 1807, as Ordinary, on board the Amphion 32, Capt. Wm. Hoste, with whom he served, nearly the whole time as Midshipman, until paid off in Aug. 1811. He was consequently present in that frigate on 12 May, 1808, in a very spirited engagement of many hours with several batteries in the bay of Rosas, in an attempt to cut out the French 800-ton store-ship Baleine, mounting from 20 to 30 guns, with a crew of 150 men. He also, on 23 April, 1809, served with the boats of the Amphion, Spartan, and Mercury, under Lieut. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, at the capture of 13 valuable merchantmen lying in the mole of Pesaro; and on 27 Aug. following he was employed with a detachment, commanded by the same officer, at the storming of the strong fort of Cortelazzo, near Trieste, the capture of which occasioned the simultaneous surrender, within sight of the Italian squadron off Venice, of six of the enemy’s gun-boats and a large convoy of merchant-trabaocolos anchored for protection under its walls. Besides participating in similar affairs at Biseglia, Umago, and other places, it was Mr. Kempthorn’s lot to be Senior Midshipman of the Amphion in the famous action of 13 March, 1811, off Lissa, where a British squadron, carrying in the whole 156 guns and 879 men, completely routed, after a battle of six hours, and a loss to the above ship of 15 men killed and 47 wounded, a Franco-Venetian armament, whose force amounted to 284 guns and 2655 men. On leaving the Amphion he joined the Pylades 18, Capt. Geo. Ferguson, likewise in the Mediterranean, where, becoming Signal-Mate of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, he served in that capacity in the partial action fought with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813. He attained the rank of Lieutenant on 25 Dec. in the latter year, and in the course of 1814, after having served on shore as Naval Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Henry Montressor during the operations against Genoa, joined the Bacchante 38, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, on the North American station, whence he returned home and was paid off in July, 1815. Since 7 July, 1831, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kendall, Walter

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​KENDALL. (Commander, 1845.)
Walter Kendall entered the Navy 29 Nov. 1327; passed his examinatian in 1834; and served, as Mate of the Nimrod 20, Capt. Chas. Anstruther Barlow, during the operations of March and May, 1841, against Canton, where he gained the character of being a very deserving officer, but had the misfortune to lose a leg. Being in consequence promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 8 June in the latter year, he was afterwards appointed, in that capacity – 10 Oct. 1842, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – and, 31 Jan. 1843, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport. He attained his present rank 13 March, 1845, and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kemble, Frederick

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​KEMBLE. (Commander, 1845. f-p., 16: h-p., 2.)
Frederick Kemble was born 17 Sept. 1815.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 Sept. 1829, as Midshipman, on board the Ganges 84, Capts. John Hayes, Edw. Stirling Dickson, and Geo. Burdett on the Home station. From Feb. 1831 until Nov. 1836 he served in the Mediterranean, latterly as Mate, in the St. Vincent 120, and Caledonia 120 flag-ships of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham and Sir Josias Rowley; after which we find him, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 13 Nov. 1841, employed on the South American and North America and West India stations, in the Star 46, Commodore ​Thos. Ball Sulivan, and Winchester 52, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Harvey. His succeeding appointments were – 21 Jan. 1842, to the Rover 18, Capt. Chas. Keele, on the station last named – 31 Jan. 1843, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – and, 20 March following, to the Caledonia 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir David Milne, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth. He attained his present ranlt 29 April, 1845, and has since been on half-pay. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mesto

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Metzler

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mersennus, Marin

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Metamorphosis

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Methfessel, Albert

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Messiah

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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, LL.D.

See also Arthur Conan Doyle on Wikipedia.
​Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, LL.D. (1859).—Novelist. A Study in Scarlet (1887), Micah Clarke (1888), The Sign of Four (1889), White Company (1890), Firm of Girdlestone (1890), Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891), Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893), Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896), Uncle Bernac (1897), Sir Nigel (1906), The Fires of Fate: a Modern Morality Play (1909), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Duclaux, Madame

See also Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux on Wikipedia.
​Duclaux, Madame (see Robinson, A. M. F.).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Edwards, Owen Morgan

See also Owen Morgan Edwards on Wikipedia.
​Edwards, Owen Morgan (1858).—Writer on Welsh history and literature. Story of Wales (1902), and several books (Tro yn yr Eidal, etc.) in Welsh, and has ed. various Welsh texts, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Esler, Mrs. Erminda (Rentoul)

See also Erminda Rentoul Esler on Wikipedia.
​Esler, Mrs. Erminda (Rentoul).—Novelist. The Way of Transgressors (1890), The Way they loved at Grimpat (1894), 'Mid Green Pastures (1895), Youth at the Prow (1898), Awakening of Helena Thorpe (1901), The Trackless Way (1904), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Dowden, Edward, LL.D., D.C.L.

See also Edward Dowden on Wikipedia.
​Dowden, Edward, LL.D., D.C.L. (1843).—Literary critic, etc. Shakespeare, his Mind and Art (1875), Shakespeare Primer (1877), Studies in Literature (1878), A History of French Literature (1897), Essays Modern and Elizabethan (1910), books on Shelley, Browning, Montaigne; ed. Shakespeare's Sonnets, The Passionate Pilgrim (1883), the Correspondence of Henry Taylor, Works of Shelley, Wordsworth, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Elton, Oliver

See also Oliver Elton on Wikipedia.
​Elton, Oliver (1861).—Critical writer, etc. The Augustan Ages (Periods of European Literature) (1890), Michael Drayton (1906), Life of F. York Powell (1905); has translated Mythical Books of Saxo Grammaticus' Historia Danica.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Dudeney, Mrs. Henry (Whiffin)

See also Alice Dudeney on Wikipedia.
​Dudeney, Mrs. Henry (Whiffin) (1866).—Novelist. A Man with a Maid (1897), Folly Corner, Men of Marlowe's, Robin Brilliant, Wise Words, The Orchard Thief (1907), Richard Lorian (1909), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Edwards, Matilda Betham

See also Matilda Betham-Edwards on Wikipedia.
​Edwards, Matilda Betham.—Novelist, etc. The White House by the Sea, Dr. Jacob, John and I, The Sylvesters, France of To-day, The Golden Bee (ballads) (1896), Anglo-French Reminiscences (1899), A Suffolk Courtship (1900), and Home Life in France (1905).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Ellis, Robinson

See also Robinson Ellis on Wikipedia.
​Ellis, Robinson (1834).—Scholar. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus in the Metres of the Original (1871), A Commentary on Catullus (1876), The Ibis of Ovid, etc. (1881), The Fables of Avianus (1887), Noctes Manilianæ (1891), many separate lectures on classical subjects, etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Everett-Green, Miss Evelyn

See also Evelyn Everett-Green on Wikipedia.
​Everett-Green, Miss Evelyn (1856).—Novelist, etc. Last of the Dacres (1886), Dare Lorimer's Heritage (1892), French and English (1898), Heir of Hascombe Hall (1899), Dufferin's Keep (1905), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sanderson, Robert

Sanderson, Robert (1587-1663). -- Theologian and casuist, b. of good family at Rotherham in Yorkshire, was at Oxf. Entering the Church he rose to be Bishop of Lincoln. His work on logic, Logicæ Artis Compendium (1615), was long a standard treatise on the subject. His sermons also were admired; but he is perhaps best remembered by his Nine Cases of Conscience Resolved (1678), in consideration of which he has been placed at the head of English casuists. He left large collections of historical and heraldic matter in MS.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Saxby, Edward

Saxby, Edward (d. 1658). -- B. in Suffolk, and was in Cromwell's Horse. His extreme republican views, however, led him into the bitterest antagonism when C. assumed the Protectorship. This received expression in his extraordinary pamphlet, Killing no Murder, in which the assassination of C. is advocated, and which displays in a remarkable degree perverted ingenuity of argument combined with considerable literary power. S. d. demented in the Tower in 1658.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Scott, Alexander

Scott, Alexander (1525?-1584?). -- Scottish poet. Almost nothing is known of his life, but he is believed to have spent most of his time in or near Edin. Thirty-six short poems are attributed to him, including Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary, The Rondel of Love, and a satire, Justing at the Drum. He has great variety of metre, and is graceful and musical, but his satirical pieces are often extremely coarse.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sala, George Augustus Henry

Sala, George Augustus Henry (1828-1895). -- Journalist and novelist, b. in London of Italian ancestry, began life as an illustrator of books and scene-painter, afterwards taking to literature. He contributed to many periodicals, including Household Words, and the Illustrated London News, and was the founder and first ed. of Temple Bar. Among his novels were The Buddington Peerage and Quite Alone. He also wrote books of travel, and an autobiographical work, his Life and Adventures (1895).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sale, George

Sale, George (1697?-1736). -- Orientalist, a Kentish man, and practising solicitor. In 1734 he pub. a translation of the Koran. He also assisted in the Universal History, and was one of the correctors of the Arabic New Testament issued by the S.P.C.K.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sandys, George

Sandys, George (1578-1644). -- Traveller and translator, s. of an Archbishop of York, b. at Bishopsthorpe, and ed. at Oxf., is page 327one of the best of the earlier travellers, learned, observant, and truth-loving. He pub. in 1615 an account of his journeys in the East which was highly popular. He also translated when in America the Metamorphoses of Ovid, produced a metrical Paraphrase on the Psalms, with music by Henry Lawes, and another on the Canticles, and wrote Christ's Passion, a tragedy. He held various public offices, chiefly in connection with the colony of Virginia.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Rymer, Thomas

Rymer, Thomas (1641-1713). -- Archæologist and critic, ed. at Camb., became a barrister at Gray's Inn. He pub. in 1678 Tragedies of the last Age Considered, in which he passed judgments, very unfavourable, upon their authors, including Shakespeare. He was of much more use as the collector of English treaties, which he pub. under the title of Fædera, in 20 vols., the last 5 of which were ed. after his death by R. Sanderson (q.v.). R. also pub. poems and a play, Edgar. He held the office of historiographer to William III. His learning and industry have received the recognition of many subsequent historians.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Savile, Sir Henry

Savile, Sir Henry (1549-1622). -- Scholar, ed. at Oxf., where he lectured on mathematics. He was afterwards Warden of Merton Coll. and Provost of Eton, and made a translation from Tacitus entitled, The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba, etc. (1581), and in the same year pub. Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam Præcipui, a collection of some of the chronicles subsequent to Bede, William of Malmesbury, Roger of Hoveden, etc. He founded the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy and Geometry at Oxf.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sands, Robert Charles

Sands, Robert Charles (1799-1832). -- Miscellaneous writer, b. at New York, was a scholarly and versatile writer, but without much originality. His best work is in his short stories. His chief poem was Yamoyden, an Indian story written in collaboration with a friend.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Savage, Richard

Savage, Richard (1697?-1743). -- Poet, was probably of humble birth, but claimed to be the illegitimate s. of the Countess of Macclesfield. He was the friend of Johnson in the early and miserable days of the latter in London; and in The Lives of the Poets J. has given his story as set forth by himself, which is, if true, a singular record of maternal cruelty. There are strong reasons, however, for doubting whether it was anything but a tissue of falsehoods mingled with gross exaggerations of fact. He led a wildly irregular life, killed a gentleman in a tavern brawl, for which he was sentenced to death, but pardoned; and by his waywardness alienated nearly all who wished to befriend him. For a time he had a pension of £50 from Queen Caroline on condition of his writing an ode yearly on her birthday. He wrote Love in a Veil (1718) (comedy) and Sir Thomas Overbury (1723) (tragedy), and two poems, The Bastard (1728) and The Wanderer (1729). He d. in prison at Bristol.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wallis, James (b)

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​WALLIS. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 32.)
James Wallis was born 7 April, 1792.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 July, 1804, as Third.-cl. Vol., on board the Borer 14, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Wilbraham; in which vessel he continued employed as Midshipman (a rating he attained 18 Sept. 1805) in Hoseley Bay, and off Harwich and Calais, until April, 1806. Joining, in the following month, the Ganges 74, Capts. Peter Halkett and Thos. Dundas, he cruized in that ship among the Western Islands, and was present, 27 Sept. in the same year, at the capture, by a squadron under Sir Thos. Louis, of the French frigate Le Président of 44 guns. In Sept. 1807, having witnessed the fall of Copenhagen, he assisted in fitting out one of the Danish ships-of-the-line. He sailed subsequently for Lisbon, and while there was employed in dismantling the different forts and batteries on the banks of the Tagus, in order to effect a clear run for the English transports and other shipping in the event of the French succeeding against the Portuguese capital. He had previously, while lent to the army, aided with a party of marines under Lieut. Edm. Stacpoole in occupying a fort at Pascediarcus. Accompanying the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, Mr. Wallis, from the surrender of the island until its evacuation by the British, participated, in command of a gun-boat, in all the anxious and arduous duties attached to the flotilla service. In the summer of 1810 we find him, in a lugger row-boat, carrying 1 6-pounder and 24 men, commanded by Lieut. Stacpoole, engaged, in company with a similar boat, in driving on shore and in there burning to the water’s edge two ​Danish cutter-privateers, each mounting 1 long gun and 4 howitzers on pivots, and manned between them with 80 men. This exploit the Admiralty acknowledged by a letter of thanks, which was read to those who achieved it on the quarter-deck of the Ganges. In April, 1811, Mr. Wallis removed to the Royal George 100, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Williams in Quiberon Bay; and in the ensuing Oct. he joined the Tremendous 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell. In that ship, accompanied by the Poictiers 74, Capt. Sam. Jackson, he was for about 36 hours, in the early part of 1812, in pursuit, in the Bay of Biscay, of a French squadron consisting of four ships-of-the-line and two frigates. When afterwards in the Adriatic he assisted at the blockade of Venice and the reduction of Trieste. For eight weeks he was employed in the ship’s barge, without more than once having his clothes off. During that period he was twice, 24 Nov. and 1 Dec. 1813, in action under Capt. Fairfax Moresby, of the Wizard sloop, with the French troops, in the river Po. In May, 1815, he was present at Naples at the surrender, to a force under Capt. Campbell, of two Neapolitan line-of-battle ships and a frigate. In the course of the same month (he had passed his examination in 1811) he was placed on half-pay, having been advanced, 10 Feb. preceding, to the rank of Lieutenant. He has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Wallis married, 10 Feb. 1818, Miss Mary Anne Dalton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ward, Edward Willis

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​WARD. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 24; h-p., 18.)
Edward Willis Ward entered the Navy, 1 Dec. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Calypso 18, Capts. Matthew Barton Bradby and Henry Weir. In that vessel, of which he was rated Midshipman in Feb. 1807, he was employed until Sept. 1810, in the Channel, North Sea, and Baltic. He then joined in succession the Monmouth, Roebuck, Podargus, and Kangaroo; in the two latter of which, commanded by Capt. John Lloyd, he served for a year and 10 months in the Channel and on the coast of Africa, part of the time as Master’s Mate. He was next, in Dec. 1812 and March, 1813, received on board the Andromeda 24, Capt. Rich. Arthur, and Doris 36, Capt. Robt. O’Brien. In the former ship he escorted convoy to Gibraltar. After visiting China in the Doris, he assumed command, 1 April 1814, of a government brig, in which we find him conveying intelligence of the peace from Ceylon to Sumatra and Java. He returned to England in the following Dec.; and on 18 March, 1815, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was employed subsequently – from 5 March. 1825, until we beheve, the early part of 1827, in the Coast Blockade, as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – from 4 Jan 1828 until 1834, in the Coast Guard-and (with a brief interval in 1845), from 5 Nov. 1840 until 1848 in the Transport service, as an agent afloat. Agents Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Walters, William Henry

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​WALTERS. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
William Henry Walters died about the close of 1846, while serving as a Lieutenant in the Wanderer sloop on the coast of Africa.
This officer passed his examination 7 Sept. 1831; was employed in the Coast Guard from 19 Dec. 1840 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Jan. 1846; and was appointed, 26 Feb. following, to the Wanderer 12, Capt. Philip Hodge Somerville, fitting for the African station.