by John Marshall

“ The duties which Captain Austen had now to attend to were of no trifling nature, and attended with considerable responsibility, he being charged with the regulation of all the men raised for the navy in the river Thames and eastern ports, as also with the detail of manning the ships of war fitted out in the Thames and Medway. That the Lords of the Admiralty were fully satisfied with his execution of these duties during a period of nearly three years, is evident from his having been appointed to the Phoenix, a 32-gun frigate, immediately after Sir Thomas Williams’s command expired. ”

“ The subject of this sketch has been twice married; 1st, in 1807, to a Miss Palmer, by whom he had three daughters; 2dly, in 1820, to a lady of the same maiden name, by whom he has one son.
Agent.– J. Woodhead, Esq. ”