Inscription on tablet in St. Anne's Church, Portsmouth:-

Sacred
to the Memory of
CHARLES JOHN AUSTEN ESQR.
Rear Admiral of the Red, Companion of the Bath, and
Commander in Chief of H.M. Naval Force in the East
Indies, who departed this life off Prome, in the
river Irrawaddy while conducting the naval part
of the attack on the Burmese Empire.
Of distinguished zeal and unimpeachable integrity
as a public officer during 37 years of active service,
respected and beloved by all his acquaintance,
and deeply regretted by his affected widow, family,
and relatives; he died in the sure hope of a joyful
resurrection, on the 7th October 1852, aged 73 years.

For we know if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of
God, an house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens.
- 2.Cor.V.I.

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