302 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



Crescent, and ambassador to the 

 court of Persia, to bear certain 

 honourable augmentations to bis 

 armorial ensigns. 



Supplemc7itarj/.—~~Dispa{ches 

 from lieutenant-general sir G. 

 Beckwith, and sir A. Cochrane, 

 containing the details of the cap- 

 ture of the islands of St. Eustatia, 

 St. Martin's, and Saba. 



Capture of I'Imperatrice, of 

 fourteen guns, by the Quebec, 

 captain Hawtayne. 



APRIL. 



7. Captures. — La Levrette, of 

 four guns, by the Arethusa, cap- 

 tain Mends; and La Belle Etoile, 

 of eight guns, by the Emerald, 

 captain Maitland. 



14. Dispatches from lord Wel- 

 lington, dated Vigo, March 28, 

 containing particulars of a partial 

 action fought on the 19th, be- 

 tween four companies of the 

 ninety-fifth regiment under the 

 command of lieutenant-colonel 

 Beckwith, and a French force of 

 600 men, at Barba del Puerco, on 

 the frontiers of Portugal. The 

 enemy were repulsed with the loss 

 of two officers and seven men kill- 

 ed, and six prisoners and thirty fire- 

 locks. Lieutenant Mercer of the 

 ninety-fifth, and three men, were 

 killed, and ten were vvounded. 



Captures. — The Navarrois, of 

 sixteen guns, by the Rhin, cap- 

 tain Malcolm ; and the Tilsit, of 

 eighteen guns, by the Drake, cap- 

 tain Mounsher. 



Member returned to parliament, 

 — Borough of Marlborough ; hon. 

 Edward Stopford, in the room of 

 lord viscount Stopford (now baron 

 Saltersford) a peer of the United 

 Kingdom. 



Order in council of the 10th in- 

 stant, allowing the importation, 

 duty free, of corn, live stock, &c. 

 till the 25lh of March, 1811, by 

 vessels belonging to countries in 

 amity with Great Britain. 



21. Capture of L'Esperance, 

 by the Unicorn, captain Kerr. 



Notice from the lords of the 

 treasury of their intention to ex- 

 tend the acts of the forty-sixth 

 and forty-seventh of the king, for 

 abolishing fees received at the 

 custom-houses in England, and 

 for regulating the attendance of 

 custom-house officers to the seve- 

 ral ports in Scotland, including 

 Grangemouth (intended to be 

 constituted a port) from and 

 after the 31st of May next. 



Member returned to parliament. 

 — Borough of Callington : Wil- 

 liam Stephen Poyntz, of Midg- 

 ham-house, Berks, and Cowdray 

 Park, Sussex, esq. in the room of 

 Thomas Carter, esq. who has ac- 

 cepted the Chiltern Hundreds. 



MAY. 



1. Appointments. — The right 

 hon. Henry baron Mulgrave, the 

 office of master-general of his ma- 

 jesty's ordnance of the United 

 Kingdom ; and the right hon. 

 Charles Yorke, sir Richard Bicker- 

 ton, bart. vice-admiral of the Red ; 

 Robert Ward, esq., James Buller, 

 esq., William Domett, esq., vice- 

 admiral of the Bl ue ; Robert Moor- 

 som, esq., and William Lowther, 

 esq. (commonly called viscount 

 Lowther) to be his majesty's com- 

 missioners for executing the office 

 of high admiral of the United 

 Kingdom. 



Captures, — LeGrand Napoleon, 

 of sixteen guns, by the Helena, 



