by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Down, Edward Augustus (1823)
“ We subsequently find him in the Bittern and Redwing sloops, on the Mediterranean station, where he captured El Verga del Rosario, Spanish privateer of 2 guns and 20 men, Aug. 2, 1807; le Victorieuse, French privateer, of 4 guns and 40 men, Sept. 16, 1811; and a small Neapolitan armed vessel. May 8, 1812. He also assisted at the capture and destruction of a French armed brig, a trabacolo, and two store-houses of wine and oil, in Feb. 1809 [1] . His post commission bears date Aug. 12, 1812. Captain Down married, Dec. 6, 1815, Elizabeth, third daughter of Admiral Philip Patton [2] . Agent. ”
