200 
Z. Vice-admiral Caldwell, with the French 
national colours, ; 
WVice-admiral Sir T. Pasley, bart. 
Rear-ad. Bazeley, Vice-ad. Gardner, Bart. 
Rear-ad.H.Seymour, Rear-ad. Sir R. Curtis, 
Capt. W. Domett, Rear-ad. Gambier, 
Capt.J.Elphinstone, Capt. J. W. Payne. 
II, Viceead. Goodall, with the fiagé taken from 
the Frenchinthe Mediterranean Mar.15, 1795, 
Rear-ad. W. Young,and Capt. J. Holloway, 
HII. Rear-ad. Hamilton, bearing the flags taken 
from the French off L’Orient, June 23, 1795. 
Captain Larcom, Captain Grindall, 
Capt. Monckton, Captain Browne. 
FV. Vice-ad. Sir Charles Thompson, bearing 
the flags taken from the Spaniards off Cape 
St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797, 
Rear-ad. Sir H.Nelson, Vice-ad. Waldegrave, 
Capt. Whitshed, Sir Charles Knowles, 
Capt. Sutton, Capt. Dacres, 
Capt. Irwin, Capt. Towry. © 
¥. Capt. Douglas, bearing the flags taken from 
the Dutch off the Cape of Good Hepe, 
August 16, 17963 
VI. Ad. Lord Duncan, bearing the flags taken 
from the Dutch ait Caperdowny on the coast 
of Holland, October 11, 1797, 
Capt. Sir H. Trollope, Vice-ad. Onslow, 
Capt. O. B. Drury, Sir G. W. Fairfax, 
Capt, J. Wells, Capt. W. Elphinston, 
Capt. W. Mitchell, Capt. E. O’Brien, 
Capt. W. Bligh, Capt. Geo. Gregory, 
Capt. Waller, Capt. W. Hotham. 
Early in 1798, Sir Alan again served in the 
Channel fleet, having his flag hoisted on 
board the Royal George, under Lord Bridport; 
as also in the beginning of 1799 in the Royal 
Sovereign; but he soon after returned into 
port with a squadron from a cruize off the 
coast of France. Having sailed again, it was 
dis¢overed that the French fleet, after esca. 
ping from Brest during a fog, had steered 
towards the Mediterranean; on which he was 
gent hy the commander in chief with a de. 
gachment of sixteen sail of the line to rein. 
force the squadron off Cadiz, and in the Me- 
diterranean under earl St. Viacent. Per- 
ceiving, however, that there was but little 
danger in either of those quarters, he returned 
in July with the coavoy trom Lisbon, accom- 
panied by nine sail of the line. Early in the 
yeat 1800 we ance more find Sir Alan, who 
was soon after created a peer of Ireland, by 
the title of Lord Gardner, serving at one pe- 
riod under his old admiral Lord Bridport in 
the Channel feet, and at another command- 
ing a squadron of observation off Brest ; but 
on the 22d of August he left the Royal So- 
vereign, and succeeded Admiral Kingsmill in 
‘the naval command in ireland, which he 
held for several years, In 1807, he succeed. 
ed the Karl of St. Vincent in the command of 
the Channel fleet, which ill-health obliged | 
him seme time since to relinguish. | Lord 
Gardner sat in three successive parliaments. 
In January 1796, he was elected one of the 
representatives for the town of Plymouth, the 
Account of the late Admiral ‘Lord Gardner. — {March 1, 
corporation and inhabitants of which were of 
course well acquainted with his merits. On 
the 13th of June, 1796, he was nominated, 
in conjunction with Mr. Fox, one of the 
menibers for Westminster. It may be doubt- 
ed, however, whether a naval officer, liable 
at all times to be sent aboard on public ser- 
vice, is well calculated to representa city 
which is the residence of the government, 
may be considered as the second in the em- 
pire, and ought td send two independent le- 
gislators to St. Stephen's chapel. Many se- 
vere cohtests have accordingly taken place 3 
and in that with Mr. Tooke, his lordship 
had to contend with a man of the firsterate 
talents. He was, indeed, well supported, and 
. attended by a numerous and respectable body 
of freeholders; but he who had never flinched 
from a contest with the public enemy, must 
be allowed to have been overmatched by the 
wit, satire, and eloquence, of so formidable an 
antagonist. On this occasion it was. well 
known to all his friends that the gallant.vye= 
teran Would have rather encountered a shower 
of cannon-balls, than been exposed to the 
continual hisses of the mob, and pelted by the 
arguments of a popular adversary. At the 
generat election, in 1802, when he was again 
returned for Westminster, Mr. Fox paid a 
very high compliment to his virtues and inte- 
grity. £4 noble admiral_(said he) has been 
proposed to you. Icertainly cannot boast of 
agreeing with him in political opinions; but 
whom could the electors pitch upon more 
worthy of their choice than the noble lord, in 
his private cliaracter universally respected, 
and a man who has served his country with a. 
zeal, a gallantry, a spirit, and a splendour 
that will reflect upon him immortal honour?’?- 
The family of Lord Gardner is still more nus 
merous than that of his father, consisting of 
no less than fourteen children, all of whom 
three only excepted, are still alive. Twoot 
the sens are efficers in the army, and two in 
the wavy; and it is not a little remark- 
able, that his wife was actually deliver= 
ed of one of her children ( Samruel-Mar- 
tin) on board the Europa at seaw He 
issucceeded in his titles by his eldest son 
the honourable A. H Gardner, born in 1772. 
‘His remains were deposited in the Abbey 
chutch, Bath. The funeral was conducted | 
with appropriate grandeur and solemnity; the 
hearse, six mourning coaches, and a long reti- 
nue of gentlemen’s carriagesy formed the 
procession. Four sons of his lordship paid 
their last offering of filial affection, as chief 
Jnourners ; the pall-bearers were Admirals Sir 
C. Knowles, MDonnell, Sir J. Saumarez, 
Wolseley, Stirling, and Pickmore. There 
has been seldom seen on any similar occasion 
in that city so great a concourse of spectators 
as attended this funeral; all appearing dee 
voutly anxious to pay the last tribute of re- 
spect to one of the firmest supporters of out 
naval tenown. 
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