by John Marshall

“ Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son.
↑ The marriage of the late Earl of Berkeley has been the subject of two solemn investigations at the bar of the House of Lords; the Earl himself, both during his lifetime, and in his last will, asserted that he was married in Berkeley church, Mar. 30, 1785; but that this marriage having been intentionally kept for a length of time secret, the witnesses being dead, and all registry or other trace of it, as he believed, destroyed, he was a second time married to the same lady, at Lambeth, May 16, 1796. ”

“ John Smith, master’s-mate, at the capture of a French schooner, mounting one long 9-pounder, with a complement of 30 men, on the Jamaica station, Nov. 4, 1803. His first commission bears date July 9, 1808. ”