32-gun frigate, blew up while alongside the hulk in Hamoaze, and nearly all on board, about 300, perished.  Captain Pellew was at the moment at dinner in his cabin, with Captain Swafneld, of the Overyssel, 64, and the first lieutenant.  At the shock of the explosion, which took place in the fore magazine, Captain Pellew, and the lieutenant sprang into the quarter gallery, and were thrown into the water and saved; Captain Swaffield perished.

Soon after the renewal of hostilities, he was appointed by Earl St. Vincent to the Conqueror, one of the largest and most powerful seventy-four’s in the Navy.  She carried twenty-four pounders on her upper deck, there being only fourteen ships, out of 100 of the same nominal force, which were so heavily armed.  In her he shared with Nelson the chase of the combined fleet to the West Indies and back, and took a very distinguished part in the battle of Trafalgar.  Following, abreast of the Leviathan, the three leading ships of Nelson’s column, she engaged, captured, and took possession of the Bucentaure, flagship of the commander-in-chief of the enemy, Villeneuve; and she afterwards assisted in the capture of the Santissima Trinidada, and Intrepide.  In 1807, still in command of the Conqueror, Captain Pellew joined in saving the fleet and royal family of Portugal, when the French, under Junot, entered Lisbon; and afterwards in blockading a Russian squadron of nine sail of the line in the Tagus, till the victory of Vimiera placed them in the hands of the British.

He became rear-admiral in July 1810, and on his brother being appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean in the following May, he sailed with him as captain of the fleet, to the close of the war.  On the return of Napoleon from Elba, he rejoined his brother in the same capacity, having, on the extension of the Order of the Bath, been appointed a knight-commander.  His last service was to take a chief part in the negotiations with the Barbary Powers, for the abandonment of Christian slavery, in 1816.  Lord Exmouth would not allow him, or any of his family, to accompany him to the attack on Algiers, in the autumn of that year.  He died at Plymouth, June 19th, 1832, only seven months before his brother Lord Exmouth.

John, the youngest brother, entered the army.  While still a youth, he became aide-de-camp to General Phillips in Burgoyne’s campaign, and was killed in the battle of Saratoga.

Edward, the second son of Samuel and Constance Pellew, was born at Dover, April 19, 1757.  He was named after his maternal grandfather, and as there appeared at first but little probability that he would live, he was baptized on the same day.  Before he was quite eight years old, he lost his father.  The widow then removed with her family to Penzance, where he was placed at school with the Rev. James Parkins, the clergyman of the parish.  Here he gave a remarkable proof of a daring spirit.  A house, in which was