THE Right Honourable Lord Gardner, whose public services have already reflected so much credit on himself, and on the professional tuition of his late respected father, was born on the 6th of February, in the year 1772. He is the eldest son of the late Admiral Lord Gardner, by Susanna Hyde, the only daughter and heiress of Francis Gale, Esq. of Liguania, in the island of Jamaica.

Of the late Admiral, we observed, that, like most persons who have obtained an eminent rank in the navy, he entered into the service at an early period of life. His son, in 1781, while only in his tenth year, commenced his naval progress. He first embarked in the Duke, and served in that ship, under the auspices of his father, in the memorable action of the 12th of April, 1782. “On this glorious day, the Duke was second to the Formidable, the flagship of Sir George Rodney, and Captain Gardner had the honour first to break through the enemy's line of battle.” Our young midshipman, who served as captain's aid-du-camp on this occasion, received an early proof, in his own person, of the dangers to which his profession exposed him; as, in the course of the engagement, he received a wound, which, though it might have been thought lightly of by a veteran, must have been sufficiently alarming to a boy who had only just completed his tenth year.