. A naval career during the old war : being a narrative of the life of Admiral John Markham, for Portsmouth for twenty-three years (lord of the admiralty, 1801-4 and 1806-7). Elphinstone, wasborn in 1747, and became a post-captain in 1775. After theP(^)w«6he was unemployed until 1793, when he had the Mobiid inthe Mediterranean, in Lord Hoods time, and distinguished himself atthe siege of Toulon. In 1795 he went to the Cape in the Monarch,and took possession of Capetown, for which service he was createdLord Keith in 1797. His command in the Mediterranean was imm 1799 to 1803. OnMarch Nth,
. A naval career during the old war : being a narrative of the life of Admiral John Markham, for Portsmouth for twenty-three years (lord of the admiralty, 1801-4 and 1806-7). Elphinstone, wasborn in 1747, and became a post-captain in 1775. After theP(^)w«6he was unemployed until 1793, when he had the Mobiid inthe Mediterranean, in Lord Hoods time, and distinguished himself atthe siege of Toulon. In 1795 he went to the Cape in the Monarch,and took possession of Capetown, for which service he was createdLord Keith in 1797. His command in the Mediterranean was imm 1799 to 1803. OnMarch Nth, 1800, he lost his flag-ship, the Queen Charlotte, by iire, iuLeghorn Roads. He blockaded Massena in Genoa in 1801, and didvery useful service on the coast of Egypt in the same year. In 1804lie commanded the fleet in the North Sea, and was created ViscountKeitli in 1814. By his tirst wife, Jane Mercer, whom he married in1787, he had an only daughter, Margaret, on whom and heirs malethe barony was entailed. His secomi wife was Hester, daughter ofDr. Johnsons Mrs, Thrale, who died in 1857. Lord Keith died in1823. His daughter, Lady Keith, married AiJguste, Comte LorrL KeUKs ftaet [Page 151. The Centaur 151 Antibes, fired at them as they sailed past. Whilecrossing Frejus Bay a despatcli-brig had met tliciiiand reported that the enemy was at anchor oH tliemouth of the Var. But on the 8th an order camefrom ]\Iinorca (Lord St. Vincent did not actuallyresign until the 18th) to repair to Rosas Bay andintercept the French fleet in that direction. LordKeith now crowded all sail to the south-west, witheighteen sail of the line, and on the 12th and LUhwas becalmed off the island of Ayre—Cape ^lola, inMinorca, bearing north-east. Passing round the eastside of Minorca on the loth, the fleet once moresteered towards Toulon. The Centaur was always the advanced ship, andwell ahead. The two frigates BeUoua and SantaTeresa were about five miles astern, the rest of thefleet out of s
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