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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Earle, Edward Charles

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​EARLE. (Commander, 1844. f-p., 31; h-p., 9.)
Edward Charles Earle died, while in command of the Rapid, at Sierra Leone, from the effects of imprudently bathing, 11 April, 1845, at the age of 49.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1805, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Ariadne 20, Capt. Hon. Edw. King, and, after participating in several warm encounters with the Boulogne flotilla, ​successively joined, as Midshipman and Acting-Lieutenant, on the West India and Newfoundland stations, the Alexandria 32, Capt. Hon. E. King, Melville and Pelorus, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King, Circe 32, Capt. John Chas. Woolcombe, Jason 32, Capt. Hon. Edw. King, Hazard 18, Capt. John Cookesley, Jason again, Capt. Hon. Jas. King, and Nemesis 28, armée en flûte, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. Being confiimed while in the latter vessel, 10 Sept. 1813, Mr. Earle was next appointed, 7 May, 1814, to the Devastation bomb, Capt. Thos. Alexander, under whom he shared in the taking of Fort Washington, was at the capitulation of Alexandria, contested warmly with the Americans on the return of the British down the Potomac, and co-operated in the attack upon Baltimore. He left the Devastation in June, 1815; joined, 6 May, 1824, the Meteor bomb, Capt. Jas. Scott, in the Mediterranean; and, from Oct. 1824 until 1831, served in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch, Hugh Pigot, and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. He then for three years commanded the Lion Revenue-cutter, at the end of which period he obtained charge of a station in the Coast Guard. He was afterwards, in June, 1839, and Dec. 1841, appointed to the successive command of the Adelaide, another Revenue-cruizer, and of the Rapid brig – the latter stationed off the coast of Africa, where, although promoted to the rank of Commander, 22 July, 1844, he continued until the hour of his death. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/D’Urban, John Gooch

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​D’URBAN. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 24; h-p., 9.)
John Gooch D’Urban died 28 Sept. 1845, aged 45 He was son, we believe, of Lieut.-General Sir Benj. D’Urban, K.C.H., C.T.S., Col. of the 51st Regt., a distinguished soldier of the Peninsula.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 Sept. 1812, as a Supernumerary, on board the Solebay 32, Capt. Rich. Curry, bearing the flag at North Yarmouth of Vice-Admiral Robt. Murray. While attached, during the two last years of the war, to the Désirée 36, Capts. Arthur Farquhar and Wm. Woolridge, he took part in various operations on the river Elbe, and assisted at the reduction of Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt. Between April, 1814, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 10 Oct. 1822, he served, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on various stations, in the Liverpool 40, Capt. A. Farquhar, Vengeur 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, Tyne 24, Capt. Thos. Gordon Falcon, Redpole 10, Capts. Patrick D. H. Hay and Rich. Anderson, and Dover 28, flag-ship of Sir John Poo Beresford. As a Lieutenant, he was subsequently appointed to the Harrier 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, the Albion 74, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney – under whom he was wounded at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827 – the Pylades 18, Capt. P. D. H. Hay, the Blanche 46, Capt. A. Farquhar, the Ocean 80, Capt. Sam. Chambers, the Tyne 28, Capt. Lord Viscount Ingestre, and the Griffon brigantine. After holding command for nearly five years of the latter vessel, Mr. D’Urban was at length awarded a second promotal commission, dated 5 Nov. 1841. He was not afterwards employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/D’Aranda, William

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​D’ARANDA. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 17; h-p., 29.)
William D’Aranda entered the Navy, 9 July, 1801, as Midshipman, on board the Powerful 74, Capt. Sir Fras. Laforey, whom he eventually accompanied to the West Indies. In April, 1803, he joined the Diligence 20, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, on the home station; and from July, 1804, until Nov. 1808, he served, nearly the whole time as Master’s Mate, on board the Atlas 74, Capts. Sam. Pym and Jas. Sanders, in which he appears to have been present at the battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, and subsequently at the blockade of Cadiz. He obtained his commission 16 Dec. 1808, and was afterwards appointed – 31 May, 1809, to the Woodlark 10, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, in the Baltic – 1 May, 1811, to the Laurestinus 24, Capts. John Clavell and Hon. Wm. Gordon, on the Channel station – 31 March, 1812, as First-Lieutenant, to the Bonne Citoyenne 20, Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, in South America – 27 Aug. 1812, to the command, on the latter station, of the Nancy 12, which he retained until 14 March, 1814 – and, in the course of 1816, to the Pique, Junon, and Niger frigates, Capts. Arthur Fanshawe and Sam. Jackson, employed in the West Indies and North America, whence he returned home in Sept. 1817. Lieut. D’Aranda – who afterwards commanded the Pestonjee Bouranjee from 17 Aug. 1842 until 28 Jan. 1843, and during that period visited the river St. Lawrence – has ​been employed, since 26 May, 1845, as Admiralty Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel.
This officer has been, we understand, 16 times in action with the enemy; and has had the good fortune to rescue 46 persons from shipwreck. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/D’Eyncourt, Edwin Clayton Tennyson

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​D’EYNCOURT. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 14; h-p., 7.)
Edwin Clayton Tennyson D’Eyncourt, born at Caenby Hall, co. Lincoln, is second son of the Right Hon. Chas. Tennyson D’Eyncourt, M.P. for Lambeth.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 3 Aug,1826, and embarked, 5 July,1828, as Fst.-cl.Vol., on board the Samarang 28, Capt. Fanshawe Martin, on the Mediterranean station; where, until July 1833, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, in the Asia 84, and Britannia 120, flag-ships of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, the Actaeon 26, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, and the Rapid 10, Capt. Chas. Henry Swinburne. Having passed his examination 22 Oct. 1832, he next, from Nov. 1833, to Sept. 1836, officiated as Mate of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings, and of the Jupiter 50, Capt. Hon. F. W. Grey, under whom he escorted Lord Auckland to India. On the receipt of his first commission, 21 Feb. 1837, Mr. D’Eyncourt became for a few months Flag-Lieutenant, in the Howe 120, to Sir Robt. Otway, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore; after which he joined, 11 Nov. in the same year, the Calliope 26, Capt. Thos. Herbert, successively employed on the South American and East India stations. As Aide-de-camp to the latter officer, he took an active part in the hostilities of 1841 in China. He assisted, on 7 Jan. in that year, at the capture of Chuenpee; was slightly wounded at the taking, 26 Feb., of the forts at the Boca Tigris; and, on the following day, witnessed the destruction of the enemy’s camp, fort, and ship Cambridge, bearing the Chinese Admiral’s flag, containing in the whole 98 guns, at their position below Whampoa Reach – on which occasion he appears to have been sent with the despatches, and the defeated Admiral’s flag, to Sir Gordon Bremer, the Commander-in-Chief. We subsequently find him employed in the boats, at the capture, on 13 and 18 March, of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton, and also of the city itself; and next, assisting meritoriously, during the after-operations against that place, at the destruction, 22 and 26 May, of a fleet of more than 30 wax-junks and fishing-vessels, and of the whole of the defences extending about two miles from the British factory, where 64 heavy cannon were destroyed. He was promoted (shortly after his removal with Capt. Herbert to the Blenheim 72) to the rank of Commander, by commission dated 8 June, 1841. Since 17 Nov. 1846, he has been in command of the Comus 18, on the southeast coast of America. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1499.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 1501.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1303-5.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841,pp. 2511-12.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Michael Angelo (Auguste Barbier)

Sonnet.—MICHAEL ANGELO.
AUGUSTE BARBIER.
How sad was thy look, and thoughtful thy brow, Brave Michael Angelo, artist in stone! Tears ne'er wetted thy lids, and never shone Smiles on thy lips; like Dante, stern wert thou! No milk for thy food the Muse would allow, Reared on strong meat, Art was thy love alone. A threefold career! Sixty years! Unknown The soft affections as bound by a vow. Poor Buonarotti! Thy work was thy glory— To stamp on the marble a grandeur profound! Mighty, to strike a deep terror around; And when it came, the close of thy story, Thou wert like an old lion stretched on the ground With its cloud of a mane dishevelled and hoary.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Necessity (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet—NECESSITY.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
Necessity or Fate, the day when thou Shalt see this soul, where such dark clouds amass, Renounce the struggle, and in desperate pass For respite ask, lift up with pride thy brow. For then to thee a combatant shall bow That knows no fear, that trampled down like grass, From weariness might yield indeed—alas! But cannot be unfaithful to his vow. Fly at such time from me, beloved Muse! Hide my heart's ashes under thy disdain! But on my hand disarmed let fall a tear. So much thou canst not, Poesy, refuse To one who, loving thee 'mid grief and pain, Has done his utmost to adore thee here.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Avarita (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—AVARITA.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
Voluntary martyr to eternal cares, To bitter penury self-vowed, he asks No pleasures, no kind kinsmen, nor the tasks That please the patriot; and he never dares To use the things he has, but onward fares As though he had them not: a poor man basks In sunshine sometimes, but the miser masks His day's wants from himself; till unawares, As he recounts and grasps one day his gold, Sudden he starts to hear an unknown voice, 'Ho, knave! Take nothing hence, let go thy hold! Empty thy left hand now! Thou couldst rejoice To hear the orphan's cry, the widow's sob, But wouldst thou Death, O fool, deceive and rob?'
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Isolation (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet.—ISOLATION.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
Fall, fall, O snow, from thy thick heavy cloud In silent showers; encumber vales, and plains, And heights, with thy white plumes, till nought remains, Nor herb, nor tree, without its silver shroud. Safe in that shelter from the north-winds loud, When Spring, returning, their rude breath restrains, More prompt the earth shall smile, in genial rains, And leaves start forth in all their splendour proud. Blest isolation from the world, I see Herein thy emblem; may thy winding-sheet Guard my soul likewise till its latest hour, That so through all its journey it may be Patient, until God's love with generous heat In heaven unfolds the blossom into flower.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Homer (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet.—HOMER.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
O wild young savage, wrapt in Homer's lore, Who fliest the talk of our logicians wise, And sports, and rich-decked feasts, and beauty's eyes, What dost thou, night and day, along the shore! I wait. For what! Grand is that hungry roar Of storm-vexed ocean as it earth defies, But grander are these histories. They are lies, And wasted hours no penance can restore. I care not. I would see, as here I roam, Astarté rise immortal from the foam, Whom in my dreams I worship. Hope commands A patient out-look to the sky's dim line, For often have I seen upon these sands, The impress of her conch and foot divine.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—My Strength is Made Perfect in Weakness (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet.—MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
Cured, but still weak, like him I sometimes feel That hath the dropsy, from his burden freed; Of help Divine who has continued need, And cannot march, but still appears to reel. Happy the blind from birth with holier zeal, The paralytic with more faith, who heed At once the Saviour's words sublime, and speed Clear-eyed and strong, with nothing left to heal. But, though less full, unmeasured and not vain The grace that's given me. May I watch with care, Daily and nightly on the couch of pain, Attentive to the Voice that says, 'Beware! What thou hast done, thou yet may'st do again, What others do, thou too might'st rashly dare!'
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Hope (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet—HOPE.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
Too well I know thee; thou art very fair, Thine eyes are blue and bright, and in their hour Armed also with a certain magic power, Red are thy lips, and smiles are always there; Thou beckonest me thy forest-home to share, And in the green pool from this leafy bower I see thy face reflected, while the flower Lets fall its dewdrops on that mirror bare. Without arising, or e'en turning round, I see thee thus, and hear thine accents sound With gracious earnestness. Ah me! what pain, What suffering it has cost my heart to learn, That thou, O lovely Hope, art false and vain! And so rest here, and from thy witchery turn.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—La Laitière (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—LA LAITIÈRE.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
La Jeanne, my milkmaid, in her heart has springs Of smiles, that bubble to her lips of right; Her eye is large, and her corset is tight, The bust has split the stuffs—coarse, home-made things. I see her when at mornings first she rings, Like a Dutch picture kneaded out of light, A breath of pasture-grounds with daisies bright Flows with her steps, as in the milk she brings. She glides as skims a bird, her speech is song; She gives her heart at once, no art she knows; To what may one compare her without wrong? Wild-flowers perhaps, or wood-fruits that enclose, In tissues rough, abundant sap and strong, And unknown perfumes sweeter than the rose.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Deus ex Machiná (Joséphin Soulary)

Sonnet.—DEUS EX MACHINÁ.
JOSÉPHIN SOULARY.
I love the park with its perspectives long Deluged with fragrance and sweet sound and light, Where in serenity pass—aerial—bright, The tripping Hours that shun the noisy throng. I love the book of Poesy and Song, Whence bursts heart-music with resistless might,— What skylark ere attained the empyreal height Nor summoned up its fellows! Love is strong, But if beneath the boughs of emerald hue, Or in the printed dream of matchless grace, Like a vain peacock, sudden strut to view Owner or author, all the charms efface: Adieu fair prospect, and high thought adieu! Nothing but Art remains—where was the True.
# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/Sonnet—Freedom (Ferdinand de Gramont)

Sonnet.—FREEDOM.
LE COMTE F. DE GRAMONT.
By iron bars the lion proud hemmed round, The sovereign lion with the terrible eyes, Vanquished, yet still invincible, defies Not by vain efforts, but a calm profound. Idle he sits, as wont, upon the ground, His claws drawn in their sheath, and none descries In his unchanging front the rage that lies Deep in his bosom, without sign or sound. 'Tis sometimes only, when he snuffs the storm Sweeping afar, he stirs and lifts his form, Savage, magnificent. Then to hear his roar The gaolers tremble—but he drops anew; Not long has he to pine on dungeon-floor; He chokes for freedom: death must soon ensue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Budd, Henry Hayward

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​BUDD. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 16; h-p., 33.)
Henry Hayward Budd entered the Navy, 8 Oct. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Thames 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, employed on the Mediterranean station; attained the rating of Midshipman 24 July, 1799; and, on 12 July, 1801, was present in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action ¦with the Franco-Spanish squadron in the Gut of Gibraltar. He removed, in Jan. 1802, to the Tigre 74, Capts. Robt. Jackson and Rich. Curry, from which ship he was paid off 23 Sept. following; served, from March, 1803, to July, 1805, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Antelope 60, Capts. Sir Sidney Smith, Henry Bazely, Sir Home Popham, and Robt. Plampin, off the Texel and Ostend, where he had charge of a gun-boat; passed his examination 4 Sept. 1805; and, after a further attachment to the Pompée 74, flag-ship of Sir S. Smith, in which he assisted at the destruction of the Martello towers on the coast of Messina, was appointed, 4 Oct. 1806, Acting-Lieutenant of the Aurora 28, Capt. Geo. Fras. Seymour. While in that frigate Mr. Budd, in command of the boats, cut out an armed vessel from under the batteries of Ajaccio, after a serious contest, in which the British had 6 men wounded. He was confirmed by the Admiralty 25 March, 1807; was subsequently appointed, 26 Jan. 1808, to the Erebus 28, Capt. Wm. Antridge, under whom we find him continually in collision with the Danes in the Baltic until April, 1812. He next cruized, from 10 June, 1814, until his return home in Aug. 1815, in the Swinger 12, Capt. Alex. Barclay Branch, for the protection of commerce off Surinam; and for his share, during that period, in effecting the destruction of a notorious American privateer of nearly twice the force of the Swinger, obtained, in common with the rest of the officers and men belonging to the latter vessel, the thanks of the Admiralty. From the peace Lieut. Budd remained unemployed until appointed, 22 May, 1840, First of the San Josef 110, bearing the flags at Plymouth of, successively, Rear-Admirals Fred. Warren and Sir Sam. Pym. He was superseded, on advancement to his present rank, 16 Sept. 1842, and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Budd, Hopewell Hayward

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​BUDD. (Retired Commander, 1836. f-p., 12; h-p., 39.)
Hopewell Hayward Budd entered the Navy, 5 March, 1796, as A.B., on board La Juste 80, Capt. Hon. Thos. Pakenham, employed on the Home station; attained the rating of Midshipman in Aug. following; removed, as Master’s Mate, in Sept. 1797, to the Volcano, Capt. Cotgrave, lying at Plymouth; and, from 4 Sept. 1798, until paid off, 23 Sept. 1802, served, with Capts. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, Robt. Jackson, and Rich. Curry, in the Tigre 74, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant. While under the orders of Sir W. S. Smith, he assisted at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre, in March, 1799, and was afterwards very actively employed in Egypt until the final surrender of Alexandria in Sept. 1801. On 12 March, 1803, Mr. Budd rejoined the last-mentioned officer in the Antelope 50, in the North Sea, on which station he commanded, from 13 March to 10 April, 1804, the Lord Nelson tender, and was immediately afterwards transferred, still as Acting-Lieutenant, to the Cruiser 18, Capt. John Hancock, under whom he was present, on 17 of the following May, in a gallant attack on a powerful division of the enemy’s flotilla, of 59 sail, passing alongshore from Flushing to Ostend; whose fire, during an engagement of six hours and a half, occasioned the Cruiser a loss of 1 man killed and 4 wounded. He subsequently received from the Admiralty a commission dated back to the 1st of the latter month; and, in Aug. of the same year, he invalided from extreme ill health. On 11 Aug. 1805, he was next appointed to the Pompeé 74, bearing the flag of his old friend Sir Sidney Smith on the Mediterranean station, where, among various other services, he participated, in 1806, in the reduction of the island of Capri and the attack on Fort Licosa, attended, in Feb. 1807, the expedition to the Dardanells, and then visited the shores of Egypt. On Vice-Admiral Hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope hoisting his flag shortly afterwards on board the Pompée, we find Lieut. Budd further accompanying the force despatched under Lord Gambier to seize the Danish fleet at Copenhagen. His ensuing and last appointments were, on 24 May and 14 Dec. 1808, to the London 98, commanded in South America by Capt. Thos. Western, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship on that station of Sir W. S. Smith. He returned home in Aug. 1809, and accepted his present rank 10 Oct. 1836.
Commander Budd was granted, on 5 Nov. 1813, a pension of 91l. 5s. in consequence of several severe contusions which he had received in the leg and breast as far back as 1806. He also obtained a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bull, Henry

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​BULL. (Lieutenant, 1825. f-p., 15; h-p., 19.)
Henry Bull entered the Navy, 11 Dec. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rodney 74, Capt. Chas. Inglis, stationed off Lisbon; and, after a short attachment to the Magicienne 36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, and, as Midshipman, to the Nymphen 36, Capt. Matthew Smith, proceeded to the West Indies, in 1814, as Master’s Mate of the Bermuda 10, Capt. John Pakenham. Between the latter year and 1818 we next find him serving, successively, in the Lady Hamilton transport, Rochefort 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, lying at Portsmouth, and Andromache 38, Slaney 20, and Owen Glendower 36, Capts. Wm. Henry Skerritt, Donat Henchy O’Brien, and Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, on the South American station. He then joined the Revenge 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Harry Neale; passed his examination in 1820; and was afterwards for some time employed in the Racer cutter, tender to the last-mentioned ship; from which he was promoted to his present rank 12 June, 1825. He subsequently served for a brief period in the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton; was appointed, 1 1 Sept. 1827, to the Britannia 120, Capt. Edw. Hawker, at Plymouth; and, in 1829, was superseded at his own request. He has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bull, James

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​BULL. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
James Bull entered the Navy 20 Sept. 1829; passed his examination 2 March, 1836; afterwards served, in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the Confiance steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Stopford, and, for nearly three years, of the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn; and, on the latter ship being paid off, was promoted to the rank he now holds, 12 Aug. 1843. He has been employed, since 28 Oct. in the latter year, in the Sealark 10, Capt. Thos. Lewis Gooch, on the coast of Africa. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.