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# A Song of the English (1909)/The Song of the Sons

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THE SONG OF THE SONS
One from the ends of the earth—gifts at an open door— Treason has much, but we, Mother, thy sons have more! From the whine of a dying man, from the snarl of a wolf-pack freed, Turn, and the world is thine. Mother, be proud of thy seed! Count, are we feeble or few? Hear, is our speech so rude? Look, are we poor in the land? Judge, are we men of The Blood?
Those that have stayed at thy knees, Mother, go call them in— We that were bred overseas wait and would speak with our kin. Not in the dark do we fight—haggle and flout and gibe; Selling our love for a price, loaning our hearts for a bribe. Gifts have we only to-day—Love without promise or fee— Hear, for thy children speak, from the uttermost parts of the sea!
# A Song of the English (Kipling)

* A Song of the English (1909) by Rudyard Kipling
* "A Song of the English", a poem by Rudyard Kipling from The Seven Seas (1896)
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hockley, John Baker

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​HOCKLEY. (Lieutenant, 1837.)
John Baker Hockley passed his examination in 1831; obtained his commission 21 July, 1837; and on 29 of the same month was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford on the Mediterranean station, where he removed, 1 Dec. following, to the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry. With one or two slight interruptions he has been employed in the Coast Guard since 19 Nov. 1838.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hockin, Charles Luxmore

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​HOCKIN. (Commander, 1846.)
Charles Luxmore Hockin passed his examination in 1831; attained the rank of Lieutenant 2 March, 1838; was employed in the Mediterranean, from 8 of the following May until paid off in the summer of 1841, on board the Dido 18, Capt. Lewis Davies; and on 18 Oct. 1842 was appointed Senior of the Wasp 16, Capts. Andrew Drew, Henry Bagot, and Sidney Henry Ussher. After serving for nearly four years in the latter vessel on the North American, West India, and African stations, he was advanced to the rank he now holds 5 Aug. 1846. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hockin, Henry

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​HOCKIN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 24.)
Henry Hockin was born 21 April, 1794. His father was a banker; and his mother a sister of the late Sir Wm. Adams.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 June, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Capt. (subsequently Rear-Admiral) Rich. Goodwin Keats, under whom, after serving at the blockade of Rochefort, he attended the expedition to Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807, was present at the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Marquis de la Romana and his army, 11 Aug. 1808, and assisted as Midshipman at the bombardment of Flushing in Aug. 1809. He was next, from Nov. 1809 to Aug. 1810, borne at Spithead on the books of the Puissant 74, Capts. Robt. Hall and John Irwin; after which he rejoined Rear-Admiral Keats on board the Milford 74, and continned to serve with him in that ship and in the Hibernia 120, at the defence of Cadiz (where he participated in the duties of the flotilla) and off Toulon, until Sept. 1812. During the two following years we find him attached to the Franchise 36, Capt. Rich. Buck, by whom, with a view to co-operating with the Spanish patriots, he was intrusted with the command of a boat, armed with a brass 6-pounder, for the purpose of annoying the French land-convoys on their way from the foot of the Pyrenees to Barcelona. On leaving the Franchise, Mr. Hockin successively joined the Meander 38, Capt. John Bastard, and Elizabeth 74, bearing the flag of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, on the Gibraltar and Cadiz stations. In June, 1815, after having cruized for five months off Lisbon as Acting-Lieutenant of the Jasper 10, Capt. Thos. Carew, he took up a commission dated on 17 of the previous Feb. With the exception of an appointment in the Coast Guard, which he held from 13 Nov. 1833 until 1841, he has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hockin married Miss Elizabeth Dodd, of Cheshire, and by that lady has issue one son.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hodder, Michael

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​HODDER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 30.)
Michael Hodder – born at Fountainstown, co. Cork, the seat of his father – is brother of Lieut. Peter Hodder, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 March, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daedalus 32, Capt. Fred. Warren, whom he accompanied with convoy to the West Indies. He then proceeded to Bermuda in the Laura, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Yates, and on his arrival at that place he took a passage home in the Prince George 98, Capt. Geo. Losack. From Sept. in the same year until Dec. 1813 he was employed, in the capacity of Midshipman, chiefly on the Home and Baltic stations, in the Alexandria 32, Capts. Nathaniel Day Cochrane, John Quilham, and Robt. Cathcart. During that period, besides being at the blockade of many ports on the coast of Holland, he served in a boat at the cutting out of a Dutch guard-vessel from the river Elbe, was present at the capture of two armed vessels and of a convoy of 27 sail in a calm at sea, came frequently into contact with the enemy’s gun-boats, and was concerned in the cutting out on different occasions of at least 150 vessels, many of them well armed. In most cases Mr. Hodder had the personal command of a boat. On the return of the Alexandria from Greenland, where she had arrived just in time to prevent the British whalers from falling into the hands of the American Commodore Rodgers, he. rejoined Capt. Cochrane on borad the Orontes 36, and went with him in protection of a large convoy to the West Indies. On the Orontes being recommissioned by the same Captain in the spring of 1815, Mr. Hodder, whose promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place on 18 Feb. in that year, was again appointed to her. Continuing on her books until paid off in March, 1817, he was first employed in forwarding troops to Flanders, next in bringing the wounded and prisoners over after the battle of Waterloo, then in carrying out an Austrian commissioner to St. Helena for the security of Buonaparte, and finally in the suppression of the slave-trade at Madagascar. Since the date last named the Lieutenant has not held any official occupation.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hodder, Thomas Eyre

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​HODDER. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Thomas Eyre Hodder is third son of the late Wm. Henry Moore Hodder, Esq., of Hoddersfield, co. Cork, by Harriet, daughter of the Right Hon. Henry Theophilus Clements, brother of the first Earl of Leitrim. He is grandson of the late Capt. Henry Moore, of the 48th Foot; and brother of the present Wm. Henry Moore Hodder, Esq., of Hoddersfield, Colonel of the North Cork Militia, and a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for that county.
This officer entered the Navy 26 Jan. 1811; was made Lieutenant, 19 June, 1824, into the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, on the West India station; and from 24 April, 1828, until paid off in April, 1829, was employed, on Home service, in the Clio sloop, Capt. Robt. Deans. With the exception of a brief attachment in 1836 to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, fitting at Portsmouth, he has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Hodder is at present Emigration Agent at Liverpool.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hobart, Augustus Charles

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​HOBART. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Augustus Charles Hobart entered the Navy in 1835; passed his examination 28 Dec. 1842; and served, as Mate, on board the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – also in the Dolphin brigantine, commanded on the Brazilian station by Lieut. Wm. O’Bryen Hoare – and in the Victoria and Albert steam-yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence. He obtained his commission 25 Sept. 1845; joined, 11 Nov. following, the Rattler steam-sloop, Capts. Henry Smith and Rich. Moorman, on the Channel station; and since 11 March, 1847, has been borne, as Additional-Lieutenant, on the books of the Hibernia 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hodder, Peter

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​HODDER. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 8; h-p., 35.)
Peter Hodder is son of Geo. Hodder, Esq., of Fountainstown, co. Cork, an extensive landed proprietor; and brother of Lieuts. Michael and Robt. Hodder, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amethyst 36, in which ship, and in the Warrior 74, both commanded by Capt. John Wm. Spranger, he served on the North Sea, Irish, Channel, and Mediterranean stations, until April, 1811. He held, during the four last years, the rating of Midshipman, and in Oct. 1809 he was consequently present in that capacity at the surrender of the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, &c. On leaving the Warrior he joined the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, stationed off the coast of France, where, on 27 Dec. 1811, he was taken prisoner in an attack on a flotilla near the Ile d’Aix. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 21, March, 1812, since which period – with the exception of an attachment of a few months in 1815 to the Levant 20, commanded on Home service by Capts. Jonathan Christian and John Theed – he has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hodder, Robert

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​HODDER. (Lieut., 1817. f-p., 8; h-p., 30.)
Robert Hodder is brother of Lieut. Peter Hodder, R.N., and ninth son of Geo. Hodder, Esq., of Fountainstown.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 June, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Jamaica 26, Capt. Arthur Lysaght, stationed at Newfoundland. In Nov. 1810 he joined the Southampton 32, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, lying at Spithead; and in the following Feb. he removed to the Defiance 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett. During his servitude in the latter ship, which bore the flag for some time of Rear-Admiral Geo. Hope, we find him employed at the blockade of Flushing and the Texel, and superintending the transport of troops from Carlskrona to Swedish Pomerania. Between Oct. 1813 and June, 1814, he was borne on the books of the Devonshire 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly, and Harlequin 18, Capt. Wm. Kempthorne, both fitting at Sheerness; and in the next Nov. he was received on board the Ethalion 36, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie. On a subsequent occasion, while in escort of a convoy from Gibraltar to Cork, he very courageously volunteered, in company with Mr. Lane, another Midshipman, to take charge of one of the merchantmen which had been dismasted in a gale and abandoned by her master and crew. He accordingly went on board the vessel with his friend, and, having rigged jury-masts, retained possession of her for a period of 12 days, when they were both burnt out by the effects of a spontaneous combustion which took place in the hold. In Oct. 1815 Mr. Hodder was appointed Master’s Mate of the Congo sloop, Capt. Jas. Hingston Tuckey, for the purpose of exploring the river of that name on the coast of Africa. Being ultimately the only officer spared by the ravages of the climate, he assumed, in Oct. 1816, the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, although he had not yet passed his examination. He brought the Congo home from Bahia in the spring of 1817, and on 24 May in that year, as soon as he had passed, was officially promoted. He has not been since afloat.
Lieut. Hodder has been employed in the Customs since Aug. 1819. He married, in March, 1834, Ellen Jane, eldest daughter of Capt. Wm. Henry Craig, R.M.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lawrence, Paul Sandby

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​LAWRENCE. (Retired Commander, 1845. f-p., 23; h-p., 30.)
Paul Sandby Lawrence has lost two brothers in the Naval Service of their country.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Sept. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cambridge 80, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Sir Rich. King. He was employed as Midshipman, during the five following years, in various ships, on the Home and Mediterranean stations; was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted for several months as such) in the Resolution 74, Capt. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, 6 May, 1801; and served during the whole of the late war, under different officers, in the Malta 80, Astrea frigate. Centurion 50, Primrose sloop, Zealous 74, Barfleur 98, and Ramillies and Sceptre 74’s, on the Channel, Baltic, Mediterranean, Lisbon, and American stations. By periling his existence, Mr. Lawrence was the means, on one occasion, of saving one of H.M. ships from destruction. His last appointment was, 5 June, 1833, to the Ordinary at Plymouth, where he remained until 13 July, 1836. He became a Retired Commander on the Senior List 25 Dec. 1845. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lawrence, James

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​LAWRENCE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 22; h-p., 19.)
James Lawrence entered the Navy, 22 July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Colossus 74, Capts. Jaa. Nicoll Morris and Thos. Alexander, in which ship he was for upwards of six years employed off Lisbon and in the Channel and Mediterranean – the last four as Midshipman. He next, in the course of 1812-13, became in succession attached, on the Channel, Baltic, and Irish stations, to the Surprise 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Vigo, flag-ship of Rear- Admirals J. N. Morris and Graham Moore, and Ethalion 36, Capts. Edm. Heywood and Wm. Hugh Dobbie. He obtained his commission 18 March,1815, and was afterwards employed – from March to Aug. 1819, and again from 18 April, 1825, to May, 1828, in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn 40, and Ramillies 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – and, from 31 Oct. 1828 until the early part of 1838, in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay.
The Lieutenant married, 5 Oct. 1816, Mary Eliza, daughter of Christopher Jennings, Esq., Clerk in H.M. Dockyard at Portsmouth, by whom he has issue seven children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Layton, Henry

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​LAYTON. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 16; h-p., 19.)
Henry Layton, born 2 Feb. 1799, at Chigwell, co. Essex, is second son of the Rev. Thos. Layton, M.A., Vicar of that place and of Theydon Bois, and a magistrate for the above co.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 May, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Barfleur 98, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, whom he followed aa Midshipman in the ensuing Sept. into the Ramillies 74. While in that ship, besides serving at the capture of Washington, Baltimore, and Stonington, and participating in the operations against New Orleans, he assisted in the boats of a squadron at the taking, 14 Dec. 1814, on Lake Borgne, of five American gun-boats under Commodore Jones, which did not surrender until the British, after a violent conflict, had been occasioned a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. From Nov. 1815, when he left the Ramillies, until Dec. 1818, Mr. Layton was employed on the Home station in the Malta 80, and Rivoli 74, both commanded by the present Sir Chas. Ogle, and Rosario 10, Capt. Thos. Ladd Peake. He shortly afterwards passed his examination; and was then for nearly three years and a half stationed in South America, once more under Sir T. M. Hardy, in the Superb 78, Créole 42, and again in the Superb. He was during that period promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 2 Nov. 1821. His next appointment was, 9 June, 1824, to the Bulwark 76, Capt. Thos. Dundas, guard-ship at Plymouth, where he was paid off 28 Feb. 1825. Attaining the rank of Commander 10 June following, Capt. Layton was in that capacity employed in the Coast Guard at Killybegs and Gosport from 30 June, 1834, until 26 July, 1837; and on 19 April, 1844, appointed to the Cygnet 6, in which sloop he sailed for the suppression of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa, carrying out Mr. Duncan, the African traveller, to Cape Coast, on his way to the Niger, together with presents for the chiefs of the Cameroon river. He was superseded in Feb. 1846; was advanced to his present rank on 9 Nov. in the same year; and since 12 of that month has been in command of the Belvidera store-ship.
Capt. Layton married, 16 May, 1839, Charlotte Elizabeth, second daughter of the Rev. Edw. Barnard, Rector of Alverstoke, Hants.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Le Feuvre, John

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​LE FEUVRE. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
John Le Feuvre was born 16 April, 1786.
This officer (whose name had been borne, from 24 April, 1794, to 3 Dec. 1795, on the books of the Royal William, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Peter Parker) embarked, 12 July, 1799, as a Volunteer, on board La Juste 80, Capt. Sir Henry Trollope; and in July of the following year, being then in the Andromeda 32, Capt. Henry Inman, witnessed the capture of the French frigate La Désiree; to which, on her being soon afterwards added to the British Navy, he was transferred, as Midshipman, with Capt. Inman, under whom he took a warm part, 2 April following, in the action off Copenhagen. Continuing to serve in La Désiree, with Capts. Rich. Dacres, Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross, and Henry Whitby, until 1804, Mr. Le Feuvre (besides assisting in the ship’s barge at the capture, on 21 Feb. in the latter year, of a French armed row-boat) was present, in 1803, at the blockade of Cape Francois, the reduction of Port Dauphin, where two forts and a 28-gun ship, La Sagesse, were taken from the enemy, and the capture of the French squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army on board from Cape François. Previously to the surrender of La Sagesse he appears to have accompanied the First-Lieutenant on board that vessel in the capacity of interpreter. In July, 1804, we find him transferred to the Theseus 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres; and, in the following Sept., present in a violent hurricane in which the latter ship lost her three lower masts and tiller, sprang her bowsprit, had all her boats stove or washed away, parted with 13 of her guns, and sprang so bad a leak that the officers even were obliged to work at the pumps. On 7 Oct. 1805, being then with Admiral Dacres in the Hercule 74, Mr. Le Feuvre was appointed Sub-Lieutenant of the Pitt schooner, Lieut.-Commander Michael Fitton; from which vessel, however, he removed as Acting-Lieutenant, on 30 of the same month, to the Veteran 64, Capt. Andw. Fitzherbert Evans. Being confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 31 March, 1806, he was subsequently appointed, in that capacity – 13 June, 1806, to the Fisgard 36, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, still in the West Indies, where, immediately prior to the brilliant capture of Curaçoa, he was sent for (having been at the island before) by Capt. Brisbane, and interrogated as to the strength of Fort Amsterdam – 10 Dec. 1807 (after rather more than seven months’ half-pay), to the Ranger 18, Capt. Geo. Acklom, under whom he assisted at the reduction of the Island of Anholdt in May, 1809 – 30 Nov. 1809 and 14 May, 1810, to the Clio 10, Capt. Thos. Folliott Baugh, and Adamant 50, flagship of Rear-Admirals Sir Edm. Nagle and Wm. Albany Otway, both on the Leith station – and, lastly, 6 July, 1813, to the Severn 40, Capt. Joseph Nourse, which frigate he left, after having made a voyage from Deptford to Portsmouth, in the following Nov. He accepted his present rank, 15 July, 1839.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lawrence, James Ross

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​LAWRENCE. (Lieut., 1821. f-p., 17; h-p., 18.)
James Ross Lawrence, as Midshipman, on board the Bittern sloop, Capt. Geo. Augustus Hire, and was employed in that vessel, on Impress service, until Dec. 1815. Joining next, in July, 1816, the Leander 50, Capt. Edw. Chetham, he had an opportunity of participating in the ensuing bombardment of Algiers. After a further servitude in the same ship, on the Halifax station, he became, in Sept. 1819, Master’s Mate of the Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, and sailed for South America. He left the Owen Glendower in Feb. 1822, having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 of the previous Nov.; and he was lastly, from 30 April, 1825, until the commencement of 1833, employed in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lawrence, Thomas

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​LAWRENCE. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Lawrence entered the Navy, 29 Jan. 1806, on board the Centaur 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Sam. Hood. While in that ship he assisted, in company with the Mars and Monarch 74’s, at the capture, 25 Sept. 1806, of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, after an action in which Sir Sam. Hood lost his arm. He also attended, in Aug. and Sept. 1807, the expedition to Copenhagen; beheld, in Dec. of the same year, the surrender of Madeira – aided, in conjunction with the Implacable 74, at the taking, 26 Aug. 1808, in sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogerswick, of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, at the end of a close and furious couflict, in which the Centaur lost 3 killed and 27 wounded, and the enemy 180 killed and wounded – and, in Aug. 1809, was engaged, under Capt. Wm. Henry Webley, in the attack upon Walcheren, where he had charge of a gun-boat. Between Nov. 1810 and Aug. 1812 Mr. Lawrence officiated as Midshipman, in tho Mediterranean, of the Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Sir S. Hood and Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats. He then came home in the Invincible 74, Capt. Watson; and on 29 Dec. in the same year, 1812, being then on his passage to the East Indies as a Supernumerary (for the purpose of there joining Sir Sam. Hood) of the Java of 46 guns and 377 men, he had the misfortune to be captured by the American ship Constitution, of 55 guns and 480 men, after a desperate struggle and a loss to the Java of 22 killed and 102 (including her Captain, Henry Lambert, mortally) wounded. Mr. Lawrence, whose commission bears date 29 Dec. 1813, ultimately reached India in the Acorn 20, Capt. Geo. Henderson, in the early part of 1814. He remained on that station with Sir S. Hood in the Minden 74, and with Capts. Robt. O’Brien and John Harper in the Doris 36, until 1816; since which period he has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Laye, Henry Thomas

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​LAYE. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Henry Thomas Laye entered the Navy, 26 April, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Trinculo 18, Capt. Rodney Shannon, on the Irish station; and was afterwards, until 1829, employed, as Midshipman, in the Jasper 10, Capt. Henry Martin Blackwood, Jupiter 60, flag-ship at Halifax of Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake, and Wellesley 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland – which latter ship, when in company with a French 74, enforced the evacuation of two places in the Mediterranean. During the period which elapsed between the date last mentioned and that of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 10 Sept. 1836, we find him serving in the Mediterranean, North Sea, and East Indies, as Mate, on board the Donegal 78, Capts. John Dick and Arthur Fanshawe, and Jupiter again, employed at first as a troop-ship, under Master-Commander Richmond Easto, and then in escorting, under Capt. Hon. Fred Wm. Grey, the Earl of Auckland as Governor-General to India. The Donegal, we may add, bore the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm during the siege of Antwerp. As Lieutenant, Mr. Laye’s only appointments appear to have been – 12 Jan. 1837, to the Stag 46, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Thos. Ball Sulivan in South America, where he was superseded in the early part of the following year – and 4 Nov. 1840, to the Endymion 44, commanded by his former Captain, Hon. F. W. Grey, with whom he continued until paid off at the close of 1843. During that period he visited the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and China, and was in the Yang-tse-Kiang previously to the pacification of Nanking. While there he commanded a detached force that escaladed the walls of Chin-Kiang-Foo, and, owing to the illness of the commanding officer, brought the Rattlesnake 28 down the river.