The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

THE COMMAND IN THE PAGI7IC.

As we anticipated yest€ rday Rear-Admiral Bruce has
been appointed to succeed the late Rear-Admiral Price as
Cammander-in-Chief is the Pacific. It is said he will
leave in a few days, in the screw sloop Brisk, 15, Com-
mander Seymour.

In Admiral Bruce's late and early gallant career we
have a guarantee that whatever he undertakes he will
thoroughly accomplish, and the country may confidently
rely on his carrying out to a successful issue those mea-
sures so well and daringly planned by Admiral Price.
The following is O'Byrne's epitome of the services
of . 'Admiral Bruce :-" Henry William Bruce, born
February 9, 1792, is third and only surviving son
of the late Reverend Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce,
Bart., by Letitia, daughter of the late Reverend
Dr. Henry Barnard, granddaughter of W. Barnard,
Bishop of Derry, and niece of Thos. Barnard, Bishop of
Limerick. He is uncle of the present Henry Hervey
Bruno, Bart.
" This officer entered the navy towards the close of
1803, as a boy, on board the liuryalia. 86, Capt. Hoa.
Henry Blackwood, and on Oct. 21, 1805, was present,
as midshipman, at the Battle of Trafalgar. In 1806
he joined the Ajax, 74, commanded by the same offioer,
and on her destruction by fire off the Dardanelles, Feb.
14, 1807, became attached to the Endymion, 40,
Captain Hon. Thomas Bladen Capel, part of Sir John
Thomas Duckworth's force at the passage of those
straits. After further assisting at the embarkation
of Sir John Moore's army at Corunna, in January,
1809, Mr. Bruce rejoined Captain Blackwood in the
Warspite, 74, stationed in the North Sea, and on Jan.
5, 1810, he was promoted from the Bellona, 74, Captain
John Erskine Douglas, into the Prospero sloop, Cap-
tain John Hardy Godby, from which he was, how-
ever, removed on the 17th of the same month to the Bell
videra, 36, Captain Rich. Byron. While in that ship
he in part commanded her boats, in conjunction with
those of the Nemesis, 28, at the very gallant capture,
off the coast of Norway, of two Danish gun-vessels,
the Bolder and Thor, of 8 guns and 45 men each,
and destruction of a third, July 23, 1810 ; obtained
the official notice of his captain for his skilful manage.
ment of the Belvidera's main deck stern-chasers, when
she ably escaped, after a long running fight, and a lose
of 2 men killed and 22 wounded, from a powerful Ame-
rican squadron under Commodore Rogers, June 23,
1812, on which occasion he was himself slightly
wounded ; again served in the boats, with those of a
squadron under Lieut. Kelly Nazer, at the boarding and
capture, on Feb. 8, 1813, after a most obstinate resis-
tance, of the American letter-of-marque Lottery, of six
12-pounder carronades and 28 men, an exploit which
was acknowledged by the especial thanks of the com-
mander-in-chief, and subsequently aided in taking and
destroying the privateers Bunker's-hill, 7 guns and 72
men, and Mars of 15 guns and 70 men. Captain
Bruce, who was advanced to the command of the Manly
brig, May 27, 1814, next, in August of that year,
accompanied Rear-Admiral Cockburn up the Patuxent
as far as Nottingham, and, on the return of the
British army from Washington, there heisted* the
flag of that gallant officer, whose acknowledgments
for his services he had the honour with others to re-
ceive. In September following the Manly was employed
up the Patapsto River during the advance of Major-
General ROM on Baltimore. We soon afterwards find
Captain Bruce returning to England with despatchei is
the Rover sloop and, until paid off in September, 1815,
successively employed in escorting the outward-bound
East India trade to the southward of the equator, in
conveying home a fleet of merchantmen from Barba-
does, and cruising off Dieppe for the purpose of in-
tercepting Napoleon Bonaparte, should occasion offer.
On March 16, 1821, he was appointed to the Sappho,
sloop, and being the senior commander on the Cork
station at the time of George IV.'s visit to Ireland, was
promoted to post rank by commission dated Nov. 16, in
the same year. He subsequently, from Oct. 4, 1823,
until April 3, 1824, officiated as flag captain in the Bri-
tannia, 120, to the Hon. Sir Alex. Inglis Cochrane, oom-
niander-in-chief at Plymouth; commanded the Imogene,
26, on the South American Station, from June 7, 1836,
until paid off at the close of 1339, and on Feb. 1, 1842,
was selected by his brother-in-law, Sir T. J., Cochrane,
to be his flag captain in the Agincourt, 72, on the East
India station.

" Captain Bruce married first, Feb. 9, 1822, Jane,
second daughter of Admiral Hon. Sir Alex. Inglis
Cochrane, sister of Rear-Admiral Sir T. John Cochrane,
and sister-in-law of Rear-Admiral Sir E. Thomas Trow-
bridge, Bart., by whom, who died June 22, 1830, be has
issue two sons and two daughters. Ile espoused, se-
condly, March 13, 1832, Mary Minchin, youngest
daughter of the late Colonel George Dalrymple, and by
that lady also be has issue."