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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, John (a)

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​HAMILTON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 33.)
John Hamilton (a) entered the Navy, 25 March, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Bonetta sloop, ​Capt. Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, and, after serving for some time in the North Sea, proceeded off Lisbon, where he removed with the same officer to the Gannet 16, commanded subsequently by Capt. Jas. Stevenson. Being discharged from the latter vessel in April, 1808, he was next, between June, 1809, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 17 Feb. 1815, employed, on the Channel, Mediterranean, and West India stations, in the Nymphe 38, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, Growler gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Weeks, Magnificent 74, Capt. Willoughby Thos. Lake, San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, and Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley. While in the Magnificent, in 1812, Mr. Hamilton was much employed in co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, where he witnessed the reduction of Castro, Puerta Galletta, Guetaria, St. Ano, &c. He has not been afloat since his promotion.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, William

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​HAMILTON. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 16; h-p., 32.)
William Hamilton entered the Navy, in Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Resolution 74, Capts. Wm. Mitchell and Alan Hyde Gardner, of which ship, successively stationed in the Channel and West Indies, he became Midshipman 17 Dec. 1800. In Feb. 1803, having been unemployed since the preceding July, he joined the Hound, Capt. Keith Maxwell, with whom, on returning to the West Indies after visiting the Baltic, he removed to the Shark sloop, and next to the Tartar frigate. While attached, between Sept. 1804 and Sept. 1808, to the Franchise 36, Capts. Hon. John Murray and Chas. Dashwood, Mr. Hamilton bore hie full share in a variety of active services. On the night of 6 Jan. 1806, in particular, he proved instrumental to the achievement of an exploit of more than ordinary gallantry, nothing less than the cutting-out, in Campeachy Bay, of a Spanish corvette El Raposa, carrying 12 guns and 75 men, besides swivels and cohorns; which vessel, after an obstinate conflict of 10 minutes’ duration, and a loss to the enemy of 5 men killed and 26 wounded, was boarded and carried by the British, who, in three boats with 64 men, of whom only 7 were wounded, had also to contend against a brig of 20 guns, a schooner of 8 guns, and 7 gun-vessels. On leaving the Franchise, Mr. Hamilton successively became Acting-Lieutenant, 12 Sept. 1808 and 6 Jan. 1809, of the Polyphemus 64, flag-ship of Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, and Daedalus frigate, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield. In Sept. of the latter year he went back, in a similar capacity, to the Franchise, and continued in that ship on the Jamaica station until confirmed 20 Jan. 1810. He then joined the Rose sloop, commanded in the Baltic by Capt. Thos. Mansell, and, invaliding from that vessel in Sept. 1812, was next (appointed – 27 March, 1813, to the Doterbl 16, Capt. Wm. Westcott Daniel, on the Jamaica and Halifax stations – and, 1 Oct. 1814, to the command there of the Shelburne schooner, in which he remained until June, 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hamilton holds the appointment of Branch Pilot at Nassau. He has received a gratuity, we are informed, from the Patriotic Fund.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, John (b)

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​HAMILTON. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 14; h-p., 21.)
John Hamilton entered the Navy, 17 July, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Prince of Wales 98, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 29 Feb. 1814. He next served for a few months in the Bermuda 10, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Wm. Wolrige; and between Feb. 1815 and March, 1820, was chiefly employed on the Jamaica station, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Tanais 38, Capt. Joseph James, Royalist and Rifleman sloops, both commanded by Capt. Houston Stewart, Salisbury 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Douglas, Florida 24, Capt. Chas. Sibthorp John Hawtayne, and Wasp sloop, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Sapphire 26, Capts. Henry Hart and Alex. Montgomerie, and, being confiimed by commission dated 11 Sept. in the same year, 1820, was subsequently appointed – 13 March and 31 May, 1823, to the Severn and Ramillies Coast Blockade ships, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – and 29 Oct. 1825 to the Brisk 10, Capts. Chas. Hope and Hon. Wm. Anson. He was promoted, for his conduct as First of the latter vessel at the battle of Navarin, to the rank of Commander 22 Oct. 1827, and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, John Fane Charles

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​HAMILTON. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
John Fane Charles Hamilton is son, we believe, of Colonel John P. Hamilton, by Charlotte, daughter of John Fane, Esq., of Wormsley, LL.D., an eminent agriculturist, and many years M.P. for co. Oxford. His uncle, Rear-Admiral Fras. Wm. Fane, died 28 March, 1844.
This officer entered the Navy 28 Aug. 1835; and in 1841-2, while attached to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, was present, either in the boats or on shore, at the taking of Amoy, the storming of Chinghae, the attack on the Chinese entrenched camp on the heights of Segoan, the capture of Chapoo, and the engagement with the enemy’s batteries at Woosung. He also, on 10 March, 1842, served in the boats under Capt. Geo. Goldsmith at the destruction of 10 fire-vessels with which the Chinese had attempted to annihilate the British shipping and transports at their anchorage off Chinghae. Having passed his examination 10 Nov. 1841, and been further employed, as Mate, in the Warspite 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, and St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, on the Lisbon and Portsmouth stations, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 8 March, 1844, and subsequently appointed, 24 May and 1 Aug. 1844, to the America 50., and Racer 16, Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Archibald Reed, both on the South American station. He left the latter vessel in the summer of 1846. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 397, 3400, 3694.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, p 3388.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, Joseph

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​HAMILTON. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 18; h-p., 16.)
Joseph Hamilton died in 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 April, 1811, as a Supernumerary, on board the Phipps gun-brig, Capt. Christ. Bell, from which vessel he almost immediately removed to the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Pellew. After participating, as Midshipman, in the partial action of 5 Nov. 1813 with the Toulon fleet, he became attached to the Alcmène 38, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, under whom, in 1814-15, he witnessed the capture of a large convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio, as also the surrender of Genoa and Naples. Rejoining Lord Exmouth in Oct. of the latter year on board the Boyne 98, he continued to serve with that nobleman, latterly in the Queen Charlotte 100, until after the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He then went back to the Boyne, in which ship, and again in the Queen Charlotte, we find him for two years employed at Portsmouth under the flags of Sir Edw. Thornbrough and Sir Geo. Campbell. After a further servitude of three years on the Home station in the Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, and of a few weeks in the Andromache frigate, Capt. Joseph Nourse, he obtained a commission dated 29 Jan. 1822. His succeeding appointments were – chiefly in the West Indies – 1 Feb. 1822, to the Helicon 10, Capts. Wm. Robt. Dawkins and Thos. Tucker – 8 Feb. 1825, to the Rattlesnake 28, Capts. Hugh Patton and John Leith – and, 2 July, 1827, to the Barham 50, Capt. Sir John Louis. He attained the rank of Commander 4 Oct. 1828, but was not afterwards employed afloat.
Commander Hamilton was for some time, we understand, a Commissioner of Taxes and Stipendiary Magistrate at British Guiana. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hamilton, Peter William

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​HAMILTON. (Commander, 1841.)
Peter William Hamilton entered the Navy 19 Nov. 1825; served as Midshipman of the Brisk 10, Capt. Hon. Wm. Anson, at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and, obtaining his first commission 2 March, 1838, was subsequently appointed, on the East India station – 16 Aug. 1838, to the Herald 26, Capt. Joseph Nias – 16 June, 1839, to the Volage 26, Capt. Henry Smith – and, 13 Oct. 1840, as First, to the Columbine 16, Capt. Thos. Jordaine Clarke. He served in the Volage in an attack made in 1839 on a fleet of Chihese war-junks; and, in 1841, he was attached to the Columbine during the first and second series of operations against Canton, where he appears to have had command of that vessel’s boats, and to have been spoken of in the highest terms. He was, in consequence, promoted to his present rank 8 Oct. 1841.
Commander Hamilton has for several years been Vice-Consul at Boulogne. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1505, 2505.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, p. 2539.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cooper, William Salmon

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​COOPER. (Commander, 1843.)
William Salmon Cooper entered the Navy 26 March, 1819; passed his examination in 1825; obtained his first commission 25 Sept. 1834; served for nearly four years in North America and the West Indies, on board the President 52, Capt. Jas. Scott, Forte 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell, Wasp 16, Capt. John Sam. Foreman, Forte again, Capt. Pell, and Rainbow 28, Capt. Thos. Bennett; and was subsequently appointed – 12 Nov. 1839, to the Fantome 16, Capts. Edw. Harris Butterfield and Philip Geo. Haymes, in which vessel he sailed for the Cape of Good Hope – and, 22 May, 1843, to the Inconstant 86, Capt. Chas. Howe Fremantle, fitting for the Mediterranean. Since the attainment of his present rank, 14 Sept. 1843, Commander Cooper has been on half-pay. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cooke, William Henry

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​COOKE. (Lieutenant, 1812. f-p., 15; h-p., 33.)
William Henry Cooke entered the Navy 1 May, 1799, as A.B., on board the Boadicea 38 Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, part of the force employed under Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole in an attack made on a Spanish squadron in Aix Roads, 2 July following. In March, 1801, he accompanied the same officer, as Midshipman, into the Superb 74; and, continuing to serve with him in that ship until Nov. 1808, took a warm part in the victory gained by Sir Jas. Saumarez over the ​Franco-Spanish squadron near Cadiz, 12 July, 1801 – shared in Lord Nelson’s pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies in the summer of 1805 – was present under Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the battle of St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806 – and attended the expedition against Copenhagen in Sept. 1807. From Nov. 1808, until Oct. 1810, Mr. Cooke next officiated as Acting-Lieutenant of the Kite sloop, Capts. Joseph James and Benjamin Crispin, on the Baltic station. He then, for a few months, joined the San Josef 110, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Chas. Cotton; and, in Feb. 1811, was again appointed to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Repulse 74, Capts. John Halliday and Rich. Hussey Moubray, on the latter station, where he was confirmed by the Admiralty, 12 Oct. 1812. Since 8 June, 1814, when the Repulse was paid off, Lieut. Cooke has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cooper, Augustus

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​COOPER. (Lieutenant, 1837.)
Augustus Cooper entered the Navy 7 July, 1821; obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1837; and has been employed in the Coast Guard since 12 Dec. 1842.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cookesley, John

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​COOKESLEY. (Captain, 1818. f-p., 22; h-p., 34.)
John Cookesley entered the Navy, 29 Jan. 1791, as a Boy, on board the Triton 32, Capt. Geo. Murray, employed off Halifax; became attached, in June, 1794, to the Polyphemus 64, flag-ship on the Irish station of Vice- Admiral Robt. Kingsmill; and was promoted, 16 Dec. 1799, immediately after passing his examination, to a Lieutenancy in the Trusty 50, armée en flûte, Capts. Geo. Bowen, Alex. Wilson, and Dan. Oliver Guion. Attending the expedition to Egypt in 1801, for which he received the Turkish gold medal, this officer landed with the troops in Aboukir Bay, commanded a gun-boat on the Nile, fought some of the enemy’s batteries, accompanied the British army to Cairo, and was present at the capitulation of the French army. Between April, 1803, and the summer of 1805, he next served, as First Lieutenant, on board the Zebra bomb, and Constance 24, Capts. Wm. Beauchamp and Anselm John Griffiths, under whom we find him successively employed at the bombardment of Havre in July and Aug. 1804, and the subsequent blockade of the Elbe. He then joined the Gibraltar 80, Capts. John Whitley, Wm. Lukin, Willoughby Lake, John Halliday, and Henry Lidgbird Ball, and was Senior Lieutenant of that ship on 11 April, 1809, when Lord Gambler made his celebrated attack on the French squadron in Basque Roads. On the evening of that day Mr. Cookesley enacted a very conspicuous part as commander of one of the five successful fire-vessels, and behaved with so much gallantry and judgment that he induced two of the enemy’s line-of-battle ships, La Ville de Varsovie and L’Aquilon, to cut their cables and run on shore, where they were soon afterwards destroyed. So highly, indeed, did Lord Mulgrave, then First Lord of the Admiralty, estimate this feat, that he gave Mr. Cookesley a Commander’s commission bearing the same date, and otherwise promoted the whole of his crew, seven in number, two of whom (one, the present Lieut. Robt. Tucker, R.N.) were advanced, as Midshipmen, to the quarterdeck. The subject of this sketch, who subsequently, from 10 May, 1810, until 16 Dec. 1816, commanded the Recruit and Hazard sloops on the Newfoundland station, was advanced to Post-rank 7 Dec. 1818. He accepted the retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Cookesley is the inventor of a very simple and efficacious species of raft, fully described and illustrated in the fourth volume of the ‘Nautical Magazine.’ He married, in 1809, Miss Nash, of Anthony, near Torpoint.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cooper, Edward James Lloyd

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​COOPER. (Lieut., 1842. f-p., 17; h-p., 3.)
Edward James Lloyd Cooper, born 28 July, 1814, is third son of the late Sir Geo. Cooper, Puisne Judge at Madras, by Mary Justina, daughter of Col. Lloyd, of Dale Castle, co. Pembroke.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Oct. 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Victor 18, Capts. Geo. Lloyd and Rich. Keane, on the West India station, where he assisted in capturing, in Sept. 1828, and June, 1830, the piratical schooner Las Damas Argentinas, and slaver Emelio. He afterwards served, as Midshipman, on the same and home stations, in the Ranger 28, Capt. Wm. Walpole, Childers 18, Capt. Robt. Deans, and San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Hargood; passed his examination 4 Feb. 1835; and, until promoted, 7 March, 1842, was further employed, as Mate, on board the Russell 74, commanded off the north coast of Spain and in the Mediterranean by Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, and Britannia and St. Vincent 120’s, flag-ships at Portsmouth of Sir Philip Durham and Sir Edw. Codrington. His appointments have since been – 2 April, 1842, to the Ringdove 16, Capt. Sir Wm. Daniell, in the West Indies – 3 Sept. 1844, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Alex. Milne, employed on Particular Service – and, 10 Feb. 1845, to the Herald 26, Capt. Henry Kellett, with whom he is now surveying the Pacific.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cooke, John Murray

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​COOKE. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 19; h-p., 1.)
John Murray Cooke is second son of the Rev. Wm. Cooke, M.A., Vicar of Bromyard, co. Hereford.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 Feb. 1827, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Asia 84, Capt. Edw. Curzon, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington, under whom he fought at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. following. He continued to serve on the Mediterranean station, as Midshipman and Mate, in the Brisk and Wasp sloops, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Smith, and in the Britannia 120, flag-ship for some time of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, until Feb. 1835; after which we find him employed for four years on board the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Wm. Hobson, on a surveying expedition to Australia and New Zealand, and intrusted with the performance of Lieutenant’s duty. On his return to England in- 1839, he became attached to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings. For his subsequent services in China, where in the Blenheim 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, he witnessed all the chief operations including the capture of the forts in the Boca Tigris the fall of Canton, &c., he obtained a commission dated 8 June, 1841. He then joined the Nimrod 20, Capt. Joseph Pearse; and from 31 March, 1842, until paid off in Jan. 1845, he was employed, in the East Indies, on board the Pelican 16, Capt. Philip Justice. His last appointment was, 25 Feb. 1846 to the First-Lieutenancy of the Electra 14. Capts. Wm. Heriot Maitland and Hon. Fred. Wm. Pleydell Bouverie, in which vessel he has been ever since serving in North America and the West Indies. Owing to the illness of Capt. Maitland, Lieut. Cooke appears to have acted for eight or nine months by the authority of his Admiral, as Commander of the Electra. Agent – J. Hinxman.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cookney, James Thomas

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​COOKNEY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
James Thomas Cookney entered the Navy, 23 June, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Donegal 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, under whom he attained the rating of Midshipman 21 Feb. 1807, and served until paid off in Feb. 1811. During that period he escorted the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley from Cork to Portugal; witnessed the destruction, in April, 1809, of the French shipping in Aix Roads; and took part, while at the blockade of Cherbourg, in an attack made on the two French 40-gun frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the heavy fire of several formidable batteries, 15 Nov. 1810. After a further attachment of a few months to the Boyne 98, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, and Menelaus 38, Capt. Sir Peter Parker, he joined, in Dec. 1811, the Iris 36, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, and was for a considerable time employed in active co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, where he assisted at the capture of Castro. On 12 Jan. 1815, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Duncan 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Poo Beresford on the South American station, whence, on being officially promoted, 19 June following, he returned to England. Lieut. Cookney has not been afloat since.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cook, Thomas

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​COOK, F.R.S. (Lieut., 1818. f-p., 11; h-p., 29.)
Thomas Cook entered the Navy, 17 July, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson; in which ship he attained the rating of Midshipman 18 June, 1809, and continued to serve until Dec. 1813. During that period he accompanied the expedition against Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807; and served, as a Volunteer, with the flotilla in the operations against Walcheren in Aug. 1809. On leaving the Orion, Mr. Cook joined the Royal Sovereign 100, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Chas. Thurlow Smith, and Robt. Lambert; and, ,after intermediately assisting at the blockade of Toulon, he proceeded, at the close of 1814, to the Rio de la Plata, as Master’s Mate of the Orpheus 36, Capt. Chas. Montagu Fabian. On hearing of the renewal of hostilities occasioned by Buonaparte’s escape from Elba, he obtained leave to return to England in the Hotspue 36, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy; and, on the latter ship being paid off at the restoration of peace, he was appointed Admiralty- Midshipman of the Rochfort 80, commanded by his old Captain, Sir A. C.Dickson, with whom he remained until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 June, 1818 – an event which took place five years after he had passed his examination. Since that period he has not been afloat. Lieut. Cook, who was appointed, in Jan. 1837, one of the Professors of Fortification and Artillery at the Hon.E.I.Co.’s Military Academy at Addiscombe, is the originator of several valuable inventions, – among the most prominent of which we may notice the “Night Life Buoy,” which has been in universal adoption by the Royal Navy for more than 25 years, and was introduced into their respective services by the late Emperor Alexander of Russia, the late King of France, and the late King of Holland, all of whom honoured him with princely tokens of their approbation; – the “Moveable Platform, for training seamen to hit an object from a ship in motion, without necessarily expending ammunition in the practice,” an invention which has been for many years in constant use on board the Excellent; – and a much-approved “LifeBoat.” The medal of the Royal Humane Society, and the two gold medals of the Society of Arts, have been conferred on him; and on 4 June, 1840, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Agents – Messrs Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cooke, John (b)

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​COOKE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
John Cooke (b) died in Aug. 1846.
This officer entered the Navy 29 May, 1819; obtained his commission 9 Jan. 1824; and, from about that period until 1827, served, on the Halifax and South American stations, in the Doterel 18, Capt. Rich. Hoare, and Adventure surveying sloop, Capt. Philip Parker King. Of the former vessel he was First-Lieutenant. He did not go afloat after leaving the Adventure.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Maguire, Rochfort

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​MAGUIRE. (Lieutenant, 1840)
Rochfort Maguire entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 12 Nov. 1830; passed his examination in 1835; and in consideration of his services as Mate of the Wasp 16, Capt. Geo. Mansel, during the operations on the coast of Syria, where he was severely wounded at the capture of Sidon, and behaved most gallantly, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Sept. 1840. His appointments have since been – 23 Jan. 1841, to the Vernon 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, stationed in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in the early part of 1844 – 30 Nov. in the latter year, as Additional, to the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane in the East Indies – and 10 Feb. 1845, as Senior, to the Herald 26, Capt. Henry Kellett, now employed on Surveying-service in the Pacific. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.