by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Dundas… (1823)
“ Robert C. Spencer, Feb. 25th, 1822; and to the Sparrowhawk 18, Captain Edward Boxer, Sept. 9th, 1822; promoted to the command of the same sloop, on the Halifax station, June 23d, 1823; and advanced to the rank of captain, while serving in the Mediterranean, July 17th, 1824. His next appointment was, Sept. 13th, 1825, to the Volage 28, in which ship he visited Madeira, Teneriffe, the Cape of Good Hope, Trincomalee, Madras, Pondicherry, and New South Wales, where he assumed the command of the Warspite 76, on the demise of Commodore Sir James Brisbane, in Dec. ”
