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# A voice from Harper's Ferry/John Brown of Osawatomie

[From the Boston Liberator.]
JOHN BROWN OF OSAWATOMIE.
BY G. D. WHITMORE.
So you've convicted old John Brown! brave old Brown of Osawatomie! And you gave him a chivalrous trial, lying groaning on the floor, With his body ripped with gashes, deaf with pain from sabre slashes, Over the head received, when the deadly fight was o'er; Bound him guns with lighted matches, judge and lawyers pale as ashes— For he might, perhaps, come to again, and put you all to flight, Or surround you, as before!
​You think, no doubt, you've tried John Brown, but he's laid there trying you, And the world has been his jury, and its judgment's swift and true: Over the globe the tale has rung, back to your hearts the verdict's flung, That you're found, as you've been always found, a brutal, cowardly crew! At the wave of his hand to a dozen men, two thousand slunk like hounds; He kennelled you up, and kept you too, till twice you saw through the azure blue, The day-star circle round.
No longer the taunt, our history's new, "our hero is yet to come"— We've suddenly leaped a thousand years beyond the rolling sun! And, sheeted round with a martyr's glory, again on earth's renewed the story Of bravery, truth, and righteousness, a battle lost and won; A life laid down for the poor and weak, the immortal crown put on; The spark of Luther's touched to the pile—swords gleam—black smoke obscures the sun— And the slave and his master are gone!
Ages hence, when all is over that shocks the sense of the world to-day, Pilgrims will mount the western wave, seeking the new Thermopylæ; Then, for that brave old man with many sons, mangled and murdered, one by one, Whose ghosts rise up from Harper's gorge, Missouri's plains, and far away Where Kansas' grains wave tinged with their blood, will the column rise! The Poet's song and History's page will the deeds prolong of John of Osawatomie, The Martyr to Truth and Right!
# A voice from Harper's Ferry/Old John Brown

"OLD JOHN BROWN."
BY REV. E. H. SEARS.
Not any spot six feet by two Will hold a man like thee; John Brown will tramp the shaking earth, From Blue Ridge to the sea, Till the strong angel comes at last, And opes each dungeon door, And God's "Great Charter" holds and waves O'er all his humble poor.
And then the humble poor will come, In that far-distant day, And from the felon's nameless grave They'll brush the leaves away; And gray old men will point the spot Beneath the pine-tree shade, As children ask with streaming eyes Where "Old John Brown" is laid.
# A voice from Harper's Ferry/The Virginia scaffold

[From the New York Independent.]
THE VIRGINIA SCAFFOLD.
Rear on high the scaffold altar! all the world will turn to see How a man has dared to suffer that his brothers may be free! Hear it on some hill-side looking North and South and East and West, Where the wind from every quarter fresh may blow upon his breast, And the sun look down unshaded from the chill December sky, Glad to shine upon the hero who for Freedom dared to die!
All the world will turn to see him;—from the pines of wave-washed Maine To the golden rivers rolling over California's plain, And from clear Superior's waters, where the wild swan loves to sail, To the Gulf-lands, summer-bosomed, fanned by ocean's softest gale,— Every heart will beat the faster in its sorrow or. its scorn, For the man nor courts nor prisons can annoy another morn! And from distant climes and nations men shall westward gaze, and say,
"He who perilled all for Freedom on the scaffold dies to-day."
Never offering was richer, nor did temple fairer rise For the gods serenely smiling from the blue Olympian skies; Porphyry or granite column did not statelier cleave the air Than the posts of yonder gallows with the cross-beam waiting there; And the victim, wreathed and crowned, not for Dian nor for Jove, But for Liberty and Manhood, comes, the sacrifice of Love.
They may hang him on the gibbet; they may raise the victor's cry, When they see him darkly swinging like a speck against the sky;— Ah! the dying of a hero, that the right may win its way, Is but sowing seed for harvest in a warm and mellow May! ​Now his story shall be whispered by the firelight's evening glow, And in fields of rice and cotton, when the hot noon passes slow, Till his name shall be a watch-word from Missouri to the sea, And his planting find its reaping in the birthday of the Free!
Christ, the crucified, attend him, weak and erring though he be; In his measure he has striven, suffering Lord! to love like Thee; Thou the vine—thy friends the branches—is he not a branch of Thine, Though some dregs from earthly vintage have defiled the heavenly wine? Now his tendrils lie unclasped, bruised and prostrate on the sod,—
# A voice from Harper's Ferry/Dirge

DIRGE
Sung at a Meeting in Concord, Mass., Dec. 2, 1859.
To-day, beside Potomac's wave, Beneath Virginia's sky, They slay the man who loved the slave, And dared for him to die.
The Pilgrim Fathers' earnest creed, Virginia's ancient faith, Inspired this hero's noblest deed, And his reward is—Death!
Great Washington's indignant shade For ever urged him on— He heard from Monticello's glade The voice of Jefferson.
But chiefly on the Hebrew page He read Jehovah's law, And this from youth to hoary age Obeyed with love and awe.
No selfish purpose armed his hand, No passion aimed his blow; How loyally he loved his land, Impartial Time shall show.
But now the faithful martyr dies, His brave heart beats no more, His soul ascends the equal skies, His earthly course is o'er.
For this we mourn, but not for him,— Like him in God we trust; And though our eyes with tears are dim, We know that God is just.
# A voice from the signal-box

A VOICE
FROM THE SIGNAL-BOX:
OR,
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS
AND THEIR CAUSES.
BY
A SIGNALMAN.
LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1874.
Price One Shillling.
LONDON: PRINTED BY BEVERIDGE & CO., HOLBORN STEAM PRINTING WORKS, 9 TO 12, FULLWOOD’S RENTS.
* Introduction
* A voice from the signal-box; or, railway accidents and their causes
This work was published in 1874 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 149 years or less since publication.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mein, John

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​MEIN. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
John Mein entered the Navy, 10 June, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board Le Caton, Lieut.-Commander R. Brown, lying at Plymouth; on the books of which vessel he continued until Oct. 1800. re-embarking, 28 Nov. 1804, on board the St. George 98, Capts. Hon. Michael de Courcy and Thos. Bertie, he served during the two following years in the Channel and West Indies; and on being then transferred, as Midshipman, to the Néréide 36, Capt. Robt. Corbet, he proceeded first to the Cape of Good Hope and next to the Rio de la Plata, where, in 1807, he took part in the unsuccessful attempt upon Buenos Ayres. After a further attachment, on the Cape, Home, and East India stations, to the Grampus 50, Capt. Jas. Haldane Tait, Raisonnable 64, Capt. Josias Rowley, St. Fiorenzo 36, Capt. John Bastard, Plover sloop, Capt. Philip Browne, Hesper, Blanche, Cornwallis, and Russell, all commanded by Capt. Edw. WaUis Hoare, and Africaine 38, Capt. Philip Beaver, he was nominated, 19 Nov. 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the Ceylon 32, Capts. Jas. Tomkinson and Wm. Paterson, under the former of whom we find him employed on shore at the ensuing capture of the Isle of France. With the exception of a short servitude as Midshipman (from 3 Aug. to 30 Nov. 1811) in the Barfleur 98, off Lisbon, he continued to act as Lieutenant in the Ceylon, also in the Néréide under Capt. Geo. Henderson, and in the Myrtle sloop, Capt. Clement Sneyd, until Feb. 1812. He then again, in the same capacity as before, joined the Barfleur, commanded at the time by Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. He was within a few weeks, however, ofl&cially promoted to his present rank, by a commission bearing date 21 March, 1812; and was subsequently appointed – 14 Aug. in the same year, to the Talbot 20, Capt. Spelman Swaine, on the Irish station – 30 April and 11 Nov. 1814, to the Warspite 74, and Orpheus 36, Capts. Lord Jas. O’Bryen and Chas. Montagu Fabian, with whom he served on the coasts of North and South America until June, 1816 – and, 24 May, 1821, to the Martin 20, Capt. Christopher Crackenthorp Askew, fitting for the Mediterranean, where he invalided. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Mein is married, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mends, George Clarke

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​MENDS. (Commander, 1841.)
George Clarke Mends is son of the late Commodore Sir Robt. Mends, Kt., G.C.C., by a daughter of the late Jas. Butler, Esq., of Bagshot, co. Surrey; brother of Commander Jas. Augustus Mends, R.N.; and nephew of Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, R.N. His eldest brother, Robert Butler Mends, Midshipman of the Owen Glendower 42, died on board that ship off Sierra Leone, 5 Dec. 1823, from the effects of illness contracted in the preceding June, while employed in her boats in the Bight of Biafra.
This officer entered the Navy, 21 Feb. 1821, on board the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship at Portsmouth; served, from Sept. in the same year, until Sept. 1823, under his father’s broad pendant, on the coast of Africa; passed his examination in 1827; and was made Lieutenant, 24 Jan. 1829, into the Maidstone 42, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Marsh Schomberg at the Cape of Good Hope; where he removed, 9 March following, to the Jaseur 18, Capts. John Lyons and Fras. Harding. His succeeding appointments were – 27 Dec. 1831, to the Undaunted 46, Capt. Edw. Harvey, in the East Indies – 16 Sept. 1834, to the Aetna surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Laird Warren, fitting at Portsmouth – 17 Dec. following, to the Champion 18, Capt. Robt. Fair, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned in 1835 – 10 April, 1839, as First, to the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, attached to the force off Lisbon – and, 12 Feb. 1840, to the Cambridge 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, in the Mediterranean. He acquired his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and since 25 Feb. 1843 has been employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mends, Robert Hamilton Handfield

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​MENDS. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Robert Hamilton Handfield Mends is son of Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, R.N.
This officer passed his examination 12 Dec. 1843; served for some time on board the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and from 28 Feb. 1844, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 9 Nov. 1846, was employed in the East Indies as Mate of the Fox 42, Commodore Sir Henry Martin Blackwood.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mends, George Pechell

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​MENDS. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
George Pechell Mends is son of Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 9 Feb. 1824; passed his examination 1 April, 1834; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 30 Aug. 1841, was serving in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Locust steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn. His appointments have since been – 3 Sept. 1841, to the Malabar 72, Capt. Sir Geo. Rose Sartorius, also in the Mediterranean – 5 Oct. 1844, as Senior, to the Mutine 12, Capt. Rich. Borough Crawford, attached to the force at the Cape of Good Hope – and 17 Oct. 1846, in a similar capacity, to the Eurydice 22, Capt. Talavera Vernon Anson, on the same station, where he is now serving. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mellersh, Arthur

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​MELLERSH. (Lieutenant, 1837.)
Arthur Mellersh passed his examination in 1831; and on being advanced to his present rank, 24 Oct. 1837, was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Cornwallis 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget on the North America and West India station; where he removed, 8 March, 1838, to the Serpent 16, Capt. Rich. Laird Warren. On 22 July, 1839, a few months after his return to England, he joined the Phoenix steamer, Capt. Robt. Spencer Robinson, fitting for the Mediterranean. His appointments since he left that vessel have been, always in the capacity of First-Lieutenant – 1 March, 1840, and 6 May, 1841, to the Hydra steamer, and Tyne 26, Capts. Alex. Murray and John Townshend, likewise in the Mediterranean – 9 Feb. 1842, to the Minden hospital-ship in the East Indies, Capt. ​Michael Quin – and, 22 March, 1845, to the Vernon 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, at first on the S.E. coast of America, and then in the East Indies, where he is now serving. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mends, James Augustus

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​MENDS. (Commander, 1846.)
James Augustus Mends is brother of Commander Geo. Clarke Mends, R.N.
This officer passed his examination in 1829; and on attaining the rank of Lieutenant, 28 Nov. 1836, was nominated Additional-Lieutenant of the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Josias Rowley in the Mediterranean. His subsequent appointments were – 19 June, 1837, to the Donegal 78, Capt. John Drake, fitting at Plymouth – 14 Aug. 1838, to the Actaeon 26, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the Brazil and Cape of Good Hope station – 26 Feb. 1841 and 11 Jan. 1842, to the President 50, Capt. Wm. Broughton, and Dublin 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, both in South America, whence he returned in 1845 – and 15 June, 1846, to the Trafalgar 120, Capt. John Neale Nott, attached to the Channel squadron. On 27 Nov. 1846, at which period he had become First-Lieutenant of the latter ship, Mr. Mends was promoted to the rank of Commander. He is at present on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Meheux, Thomas Charles

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​MEHEUX. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Thomas Charles Meheux passed his examination in 1826; and obtained his commission 12 April, 1836. His appointments have since been – 18 May following, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the Melville 74, flag-ship of Sir Peter Halkett in North America and the West Indies – 3 Dec. in the same year, to the Rainbow 28, Capt. Thos. Bennett, on the same station, whence he returned in 1838 – 20 June and 21 Sept. 1839, to the Gorgon steamer and Carysfort 26, Capts. Wm. Honyman Henderson and Henry Byam Martin, with whom he continued (participating intermediately in the operations on the coast of Syria) until 1841 – 9 Aug. 1843, as Senior, to the Alert 6, Capt. Chas. John Bosanquet, on the African station – 7 Dec. 1844, in a similar capacity, to the Tartarus steamer, Capt. Jas. Wolfe, employed in surveying the coast of Ireland – and, 5 Feb. 1847, to the command of the Crescent receiving-ship at Rio de Janeiro, where he is at present serving.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Meech, Radford Gundry

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​MEECH. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 10; h-p., 34.)
Radford Gundry Meech entered the Navy, 25 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Britannia 100, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Earl of Northesk, employed at first in the Channel and then in the Mediterranean; where, after enacting a Midshipman’s part in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, he removed to the Royal George 100, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, whom he accompanied in Feb. 1807 in the expedition to the Dardanells. During the next three years we find him serving in the North Sea and Baltic, at the Nore, and in the West Indies, on board the Brunswick 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Chas. Selby, Namur 74, Capt. Alex. Shippard, and Neptune 98, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood. In March, 1810, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Freija frigate, Capt. John Hayes, also in the West Indies; where he remained until three months after his official promotion, which took place 15 June following. His last appointments were – 17 Nov. in the same year, to the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson, with whom he served in the Baltic until Jan. 1813 – and, 19 May, 1815, as Senior, to the Weser 44, Capts. Bartholomew Kent and Dan. Lawrence, on the North American station, whence he returned in the following Nov.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Meggison, William Henry

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​MEGGISON. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
William Henry Meggison entered the Navy, 12 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Indefatigable 46, Capt. Graham Moore; and on 5 Oct. 1804, was present in that ship off Cape St. Mary in an action which terminated in the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth. In Nov. 1805 he removed, as Midshipman, to the Fame 74, commanded at first by Capt. Moore and next by Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, where he continued until May, 1810. He was made Lieutenant, 16 March, 1811, into the Eurydice 24, Capt. Jas. Bradshaw, on the Halifax station; and was lastly, from April, 1812, until Sept. 1815, employed in the North Sea and South America on board the Inconstant 36, Capts. Edw. W. C. R. Owen and Sir Edw. Tucker. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Meheux, Archibald Bryan

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​MEHEUX. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Archibald Bryan Meheux entered the Navy 26 Oct. 1811; passed his examination in 1818; and was made Lieutenant, 28 Feb. 1825, into the Tweed 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, on the Jamaica station. He has been on half-pay since 1827.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Radcliff, John

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​RADCLIFF. (Lieut., 1816. f-p., 10; h-p., 30.)
John Radcliff entered the Navy, 23 Dec. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spencer 74, Captain, afterwards Rear-Admiral, Hon. Robt. Stopford, stationed in the Channel. From Dec. 1808 until June, 1816, he served in the East Indies, off Lisbon and Cork, and in the Mediterranean, in the Clorinde 38 and Leviathan 74, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Briggs. In the former ship he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, 28 Jan. 1810, of L’Henri privateer, of 8 guns and 57 men, and at the reduction, in Dec. 1810, of the Isle of France. During the last two years and a-half of his attachment to the Leviathan, he filled the rating of Master’s Mate. On leaving her he was nominated Admiralty-Midshipman of the Albion 74, Capt. John Coode; for his conduct under whom at the bombardment of Algiers he was promoted, 16 Sept. 1816, to the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointments were to the Tagus 38, and Euphrates 36, Capts. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, Robt. F. Preston, and Robt. Bruce. In those vessels he served in the Mediterranean from Nov. 1816 until June, 1817. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Quin, Richard Robert

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​QUIN. (Commander, 1846.)
Richard Robert Quin entered the Navy 7 May, 1834; passed his examination 9 July, 1840; and for his services as Mate of the Conway 26, Capt. Chas. Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, on the coast of China, particularly at the capture of Canton, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 June, 1841. His appointments in the latter capacity were – 10 March, 1842, to the Belvidera 38, Capt. Hon. Geo. Grey, in the Mediterranean – and, 30 May, 1844, to the Collingwood 80, hearing the flag of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour in the Pacific. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Radcliffe, William

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​RADCLIFFE. (Commander, 1830. f-p., 19; h-p., 19)
William Radcliffe was born 27 Dec. 1796. His father, Thomas Radcliffe, was an officer in the Royal Dockyard at Portsmouth.
This officer entered the Navy, 17 June, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Endymion 40, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, employed in cruizing among the Western Islands and on the north coast of Ireland. Quitting her in Oct. 1810, he served during the next 12 months as a Supernumerary in the Revenge 74, Capt. John Nash, and Royal George 100, bearing the flag off L’Orient of Sir Thos. Williams. In the Revenge he was stationed off Cherbourg, and assisted in conveying a body of troops to Lisbon. In Oct. 1811, he again joined Capt. Capel on board La Hogue 74; in which ship he continued for two years off Brest and Flushing and on the North American station. While in her and in charge, as Midshipman, of a prize, he was captured, but was retaken before entering an enemy’s port. After an attachment of 10 months to the Valiant 74, Capt. Zachary Mudge, on the Brazilian coast, he joined, in Aug. 1815, the Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, lying at Spithead. For his conduct in the Glasgow 50, also commanded by Capt. Maitland, at the battle of Algiers, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. 1816. His succeeding appointments were – 3 Sept. 1818, to the Tyne 26, Capt. Gordon Thos. Falcon, on the South American station, whence he returned in Oct. 1820 – 6 Feb. 1822, to the Hind 20, Capts. Hon. Henry John Rous and Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, fitting for the Mediterranean – 12 Sept. 1823, as First, to the Martin 20, Capt. Henry Eden, with whom he served, on the station last named, until Feb. 1825 – and 2 Jan. 1829, in a similar capacity, to the Undaunted 46, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, employed on particular service. Attaining his present rank 22 July, 1830, he served in that capacity in the Coast Guard from 7 Sept. 1836 until 12 Nov. 1839, and since 3 March, 1845, has been actively employed in the Apollo troop-ship in all parts of the globe. When in the Rio de la Plata, and in company with the Eagle 50 and French war-steamer Gazendi, he landed the Apollo’s men, and, by throwing up a battery, contrived for several days to defend the east point of Maldonado against a strong detachment of Oribe’s army. His exertions in bringing the Apollo safely out of Waterloo Bay, Cape of Good Hope, with the 73rd Regt. on board, after she had lost all her anchors from the effects of tremendous rollers which had set in, have, we understand, been noted at the Admiralty.
Commander Radcliffe, during the earlier part of his career, was struck by lightning and supposed for some time to be dead: he also, while lying at St. Helena, fell from the cross-jack to the deck and was severely hurt; and on another occasion a block from aloft fell on his head. The effects of these accidents he still feels. He married, 11 May, 1840, Julia Pittis, daughter of the late W. Dore, Esq. Agents – Collier and Snee.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Quin, Henry

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​QUIN. (Lieutenant, 1820. f-p., 7; h-p., 27.)
Henry Quin entered the Navy, 13 April, 1813, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Stirling Castle 74, Capts. Sir Home Popham and Wm. Butterfleld, under the former of whom he escorted the Earl of Moira as Governor-General to India. While serving next, between Aug. 1814 and Oct. 1816, in the Berwick 74 and Impregnable 104, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, he assisted, in the former ship, at the siege of Gacta, and was present in the Impregnable under the flag of Rear-Admiral David Milne at the bombardment of Algiers. He was subsequently, from Nov. 1817 until Aug. 1820, employed in the West Indies on board the Sybille 44, flag-ship of Sir Home Popham, and on 28 Dec. in the latter year was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Quinlan, William St. Louis

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​QUINLAN. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
William St. Louis Quinlan entered the Navy 21 Jan. 1829; passed his examination 10 June, 1835; and while serving as Mate, in 1842, in the Charybdis brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Archibald Macdonald, appears to have “upheld the British flag against a superior force” at the blockade of San Juan de Nicaragua, He obtained his commission 3 Feb. 1843; became, 13 Sept. following, Additional-Lieutenant of the Dublin 50, flag-ship in the Pacific of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas; and, from 19 Dec. 1844 until paid off at the close of 1847, was employed on the same station in the Cormorant steam-sloop, of 300-horse-power, Capts. Geo. Thos. Gordon and Fred. Beauchamp Paget Seymour.