they have ever since remained blocked up by the victorious Admiral. Soon after the news arrived of the engagement, Sir John Jervis was created a British Peer, by the title of Lord St. Vincent, in allusion to the place where this extraordinary victory was achieved."

For this victory Sir John Jervis was rewarded with an Earldom, being created BARON JERVIS of Meaford, in the county of Stafford, and EARL OF ST. VINCENT, to him and the heirs male of his body, by patent dated June 23d, 1797. He afterwards obtained a patent for a VISCOUNTY, with a collateral limitation, being created by patent dated April 27th, 1801, VISCOUNT ST. VINCENT of Meaford, in the county of Stafford, to him and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and in default, to William Henry Ricketts, Esq. Captain in his Majesty's navy, son of Mary Ricketts, by William Henry Ricketts, Esq. late of the Island of Jamaica; which said Mary Ricketts is the sister of the said John, Earl of St. Vincent, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and in default of such issue, to Edward Jervis Ricketts, Esq. Barrister at Law, another son of the said Mary Ricketts, by the said late William Henry Ricketts, and brother of the said William Henry Ricketts, the said other son of the said Mary Ricketts, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and in default of such issue, to Mary, Countess of Northesk, daughter of the said Mary Ricketts; and after the decease of the said Mary, Countess of Northesk, and in default of such issue, as well of the said John, Earl of St. Vincent, as of the said William Henry Ricketts, and Edward Jervis Ricketts, as aforesaid, to the heirs male of the body of the said Mary, Countess of Northesk, lawfully begotten.

In March, 1801, when the reins of Administration were committed to Mr. Addington, the Earl of St. Vincent was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. In this situation, his Lordship introduced various extensive reforms, of which the expediency has been differently considered by opposite parties. Mr. Pitt said, "I admire the uncommon valour, I extol the vast renown, the the glorious achievements of Lord St. Vincent. To him we are highly indebted for shedding extraordinary lustre on our national glory." But Mr. Pitt, at the same time, expressed his opinion, that "between his Lordship as a Commander at sea, and his Lordship as First Lord of the Admiralty, there was a wide di ference."

Gifford Life of Pitt, IV. 699.

His Lordship had afterwards for some time the command of the Channel fleet.

His Lordship married at Southweald, in Essex, his first cousin, Martha, daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Parker; but has no issue.

Titles. John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent, Viscount St. Vincent, and Baron Jervis, of Meaford.

Creations. Earl of St. Vincent, and Baron Jervis, of Meaford, by patent June 23d, 1797; and Viscount St. Vincent, of Meaford, April 27th, 1801.

Arms. Sable, a chevron Ermine, between three martlets, Or. Crest. A demi-Pegasus issuing from a wreath.

Supporters. On the dexter side, an eagle grasping in his left talon a thunder-bolt; on the sinister side, a Pegasus charged on the wing, with a fleur-de-luce.

Motto. THUS.

Seat. Rockets, Essex.

i Mr. Clarke, in his late splendid Life of Lord Nelson, makes the following mention of his Lordship: "With the reputation, which Sir John Jervis had gained in the various gradations of the service, was united a thorough knowledge of the politics of the British Empire and of Europe, and a keen discrimination of the real character and abilities of those officers who served under him. Naturally of an ambitious disposition, and professionally a strict disciplinarian, he despised the trammels, and sometimes, perhaps, forgot the feelings, which repress common minds; and being determined strictly to execute the important duties entrusted to him, he resolved that every person in the fleet should rigidly do the same." Clarke's Life of Lord Nelson, I. 241.

THIS family of Cadogan was of great honour and antiquity in Wales, as the writers of the Welsh history and their genealogists attest; being descended from Keldlyn, Prince of Powis, and Reinger, daughter and heir to Tydyr Trevor, Prince of Ferley, whose grandson, Kydwgan, Lord of Radnor, with his three sons, defended his territories against King Henry I. From whom in lineal descent, was THOMAS CADOGAN, Valectus Corone, as he writes himself in his last will and testament, dated June 12th, 1511, and the probate is dated on July 12th following. He therein orders his body to be buried in the church of Dunster; and bequeaths to the church of the Blessed Mary of Penrise, his best tunick, and to Lewis Cadogan, one of his gowns. The residue of all his goods, chattels, &c. he bequeaths to Christian his wife (whom he makes his sole executor), and to William Cadogan, and John Cadogan, his sons.

Which WILLIAM Cadogan was of Croftney, and Frostrey-Arch, in com. Monm. Esq. and by Anne his wife, daughter of George Arnault, had issue two sons; William, of Croftney, and Henry.

HENRY was seated at Llanbeder, in the county of Pembroke; and having married Catharine, daughter of Thomas Stradling, a younger son of the Stradlings of St. Donat's-castle, in Glamorganshire, bad issue,

WILLIAM, born at Cardiff, February 5th, 1601; he went over to Ireland with the Earl of Strafford, and taking to a military life, was, in 1641, a captain of horse; and, in 1649, being a Major, was (as Sir Richard Cox observes in his History of Ireland), sent

a Ex Regist. Fettiplace, q. 18, in cur. Prærog. Cant.

from Dublin with a party to discover the enemy, and to slacken their march; and did memorable service, not only in destroying the country about Teeroghan, but in cutting off a great many of the enemy. He likewise engaged those wicked traitors, Phelin Oneile, and Owen O'Rowe; and, being very serviceable in the reduction of Ireland, was constituted governor of the borough and castle of Trim, in that kingdom; in which post he died on March 14th, 1660-1, and was buried at Trim, where a monument is erected to his memory, with the following inscription:

Hic juxta conditæ sunt exuviæ clarissimi viri Gulielmi
Cadogan, armigeri; qui prænobili Thomæ Comiti
Straffordiæ, Hiberniæ sub auspiciis Caroli primi pro-
regis, fuit a secretis; necnon ob eximias animi dotes
acceptissimus, postea, perduellione sæviente dirà, pro
religione, rege, patriaque, majori titulo decoratus,
fortiter dimicavit. Deinde burgo et castro Trimensi
meritorum ergo præfuit, ac contra nefarios proditores
Phelinum O'Neile et Audoenum O'Rowe strenue
propugnavit. Natus est 5to die Februarii, anno 1600,
Cardiffiæ, oppidi apud Cambrienses non obscuri; an-
tiquæ et illustri presapià ortus; filius nempe primo-
genitus Henrici Cadogan de Lanbedder, filii natu
secundi Gulielmi Cadogan de Frostrey-arch in comi-
tatu Monmothiæ armigeri, qui a principibus Cambro-
Britannicis paternum genus deduxit. Matrem ha-
buit equestri et celebri gente Stradlingorum castro de
Sancto Donato in agro Glamorganiensi prognatam;
scilicet Catharinam filiam Thomæ Stradling de Mer-
thur-Maur in eodem agro armigeri, filii Roberti
fratris junioris Domini Thomæ Stradling de castro
Sancto Donato equitis aurati ejusdem. E vivis ex-
cessit 14 die Martii anno domini 1660, ubi primum
viderat, quo nihil magis in votis habuit, auspicatissimum
Regem Carolum Secunduin ex iniquio exilio reducem
et salvum.

HENRY, bis son, who was a counsellor at law, died on January 13th, 1713-14, and was buried at Christ-church, in Dublin. He married Bridget, daughter to Sir Hardress Waller, Kut. by whom he had two sons, William, first Earl of Cadogan; and Charles, second Lord Cadogan; also a daughter, Penelope, married to Sir

Thomas Prendergast, Bart. who was colonel of a regiment of foot, and was killed at the battle of Tanniers (or Malplaquet), near Mons, on September 11th, N. S. 1709.

WILLIAM, FIRST EARL OF CADOGAN, the eldest son, took to a military life from his youth, and, by his merits, gradually rose to be General of his Majesty's forces. He eminently distinguished himself in the wars under King William, both in Ireland, at the battle of the Boyne, and in Flanders.

In 1701, he was made Quarter-master-general of the army, when, on the King of Spain's death, a new war threatened Europe, and King William, sensible of his own declining health, declared the Earl of Marlborough general of the foot, and commander in chief of the forces in Holland.

In 1703, he was constituted Colonel of the second regiment of horse; and Brigadier-general on August 25th, 1704; having that year gallantly behaved, both at the attack of Schellemberg, on July 2d, and at the battle of Hochstet, on August 2d. He was in the heat of the action at the attack of Schellemberg, wherein he had several shots in his clothes, and was slightly wounded in his thigh. On June 11th, 1705, he was elected member of parliament for Woodstock; and on July 18th, N. S. the same year, at the forcing of the French lines near Tirlemont, he also behaved with remarkable bravery at the head of his regiment, which first attacking the enemy had such success, that they defeated four squadrons of Bavarian guards, drove them through two battalions of their foot, and took four standards.

He was in the battle of Ramelies, fought on May 12th, 1706; after which the Duke of Marlborough sent from his camp at Meerlebeck, on June 3d, N. S. Brigadier Cadogan, with six squadrons of horse, and his letter to the governor of Antwerp, to invite him and the garrison to the obedience of King Charles III. and acquainting his Grace that ten battalions were in the city and castle of Antwerp, who seemed inclined to surrender on honourable terms, the Duke thereupon sent him an authority to treat with them. And after some conferences, wherein they prayed they might have leave to go to the Elector of Bavaria, to receive his directions upon the conduct they were to observe on the summons; finding that his Grace did not think fit to grant their request, and that he was determined to reduce them, and that Brigadier Cadogan, already posted near the city, had the Duke's orders to give the garrison no more than four hours time to consider of the capitulation offered them, they complied therewith;