The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY, MONDAY.

The following are the annual coast-guard promo.
tions for the year 1851 :
Commander—George Davies (1842), to the rank a
captain.

Lieutenants-John Bailey (1826), G. F. West-
brook (1826), and William Maxwell (1820), to the
rank of commander.
All the above are officers of old standing.
Captain Davies, promoted from inspecting com-
mander of the Penzance district, entered the navy in
June, 1813, on board the Ajax, 74. In that ship he
assisted, while at the siege of St. Sebastian, in taking
the island of Sta. Clara, and was present as midship-
man at the blockade of Rochefort and of Toulon, the
surrender of Marseilles, and the capture of a vast
number of the enemy's armed and other vessels.
Joining next the Queen Charlotte, 100, bearing the
flag of Lord Exmouth, he took part in the bombard-
ment of Algiers August 27, 1816, and on that oc-
casion be particularly attracted the notice of his
Commander-in-Chief, whose orders he was through-
out employed in conveying to the different
chips of the fleet. The boat he commanded was
frequently under the necessity of being partially re-
manned in consequence of the great loss of her crew
in killed and wounded. In 1821 became attached to
the Seringapatam, 46, in the boats of which ship he
appears to have assisted at the capture and destruction
of various piratical vessels in the West Indies. On
his removal, in January, 1824, to the Naiad, 46, he
contributed to the utter defeat, on the 31st of that
month, of the Tripoli, Algerine corvette, of 18 guns
and 100 men; and on the night of the 231 of May
following he aided in the boats, under Lieutenant
Michael Quin, at the brilliant destruction' of a 16 -
gun brig, moored in a position of extraordinary
strength alongside the walls of the fortress of Bona,
in which were a garrison of about 400 soldiers, who
from cannon and musket kept up a tremendous fire
almost perpendicularly upon the deck. He after-
wards, in charge of the ship's barge, brought out a
piratical mistico from the Island of Hydra ; and on
rejoining the Seringapatam frequently landed at the
head of a division of seamen in order to co-operate
with the marines of that ship and of the Revenge
in their hostilities against the pirates of other Greek
settlements in the Archipelago. He was pro-
moted for his gallantry at Bons to the rank of lieu-
tenant, June 1, 1826, five years previously to which
he bad passed his examination. Between Dec. 13,
1828 and 1831 he further served in the West Indies
as First• Lieutenant of the Ranger, 28, and Mersey,
26. On July 6, 1832, he was appointed to a station
in the coast-guard, which he resigned on being nomi-
nated to the command, Nov. 28, 1836, of the Tartar
revenue-cutter. At the expiration of his servitude in
the latter-vessel he returned to the coast-guard,
March 27, 1840, and continued in that service, in
which, and in the Tartar, he was so successful as to
effect the capture of not fewer than fifteen notorious
smuggling vessels, besides making numerous other
seizures and many other salvages-until Jan. 1, 1842,
when he was promoted to his present rank. Since
July 3, 1843, he has been re-employed in the coast-
guard as an inspecting commander. For often
hazarding his life for the preservation of his fellow-
creatures, by jumping overboard and otherwise, he
obtained six medals from the Royal Humane Society
and the National Shipwreck Institution. King Louis
Philippe, in acknowledgment of his having saved the
crews of three French vessels, also conferred on him
two gold " medals of merit ;" and on the last occa-
sion his Majesty presented him with the order of the
Legion of Honour. Commander Davies also received
three pieces of plate, and the frequent thanks of the
Board of Admiralty and of the Committee of Lloyd's
Commander Maxwell has been promoted from the
Worthing station, is an old coast-blockade and coast-
guard officer, having been in both services from 1826.
He entered the navy in 1810, on board the Diana,
38, and was in the attack on the two French frigates,
Imogene and Eliza, when these vessels were aground
under the protection of several strong batteries at La
Hogue. lie was in the Venerable, 74, when in com-
pany with the Cyane sloop, the French 44-gun fri-
gates Iphigenie and Alcmene were captured. He
served successively in the West Indies and East
Indies, and on the 6th November, 1819, was promoted
by Sir Home Popham Lieutenant of the Ontario, 18,
in the boats of which vessel he contributed to the
capture of one and destruction of another piratical
schooner. He was confirmed June 9, 1820, and was
appointed May 23, 1823, to the Cameleon, 10, and
under the command of Captain Ryder Burton, K.H.,
took part January, 1324, in a close and gallant action
which terminated in the boarding and capture, under
the very batteries of Algiers, of the corvette Tripoli,
18 guns and 100 men, in which affair the Gallant
Captain was wounded.

Commander Bulley has been in the coast-guard
service 20 years, and has been promoted from Ather-
field-station. At the Start Bay and Atherfield sta-
tions he distinguished himself in getting vessels,
saving cargoes, and rescuing crews. Twice received
the silver and once the gold medal of the Royal Ship-
wreck Institution, and also the large honorary medal
voted by the subscribers at Lloyd's, and the thanks
of the Admiralty, and the National Shipwreck In-
stitute, " for his praiseworthy and gallant conduct
during.the memorable gale of January 13 and 14,
1843, for pushing off in his boat, with Lieutenant
Vicary, when all other means had failed, and saving
the crew of the brig George, of Sunderland, which
ship went to pieces." He entered the navy in 1812,
and in early life served against the American priva-
teers, shared in the operations against New Orleans,
was slightly wounded in an affair up the River St.
Mary, and served in the Halcyon, 18, in destroying
the various nests of pirates along the shores of Cuba,
Isle of Pines, and Gulf of Mexico.
Commander Westbrook has been promoted from
the command of the Stag revenue cutter. Off and
on he has served in the coast blockade and coast
guard ashore and afloat since 1827. He entered the
navy in 1809, passed his examination in 1817, and
was made July 26, 1826. He is the inventor of a
" Peril Indicator," the object of which is to denote
the approach of ground to ships.
Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8., re-hoisted his
broad pendant on board the St. George on Monday
morning, and resumed his duties in Devonport
Dockyard.
Captain Milne returns to the Admiralty and re-
sumes his official duties on the 9th inst.

Lieutenant Algernon F. It. De Horsey (1846), of
the Arrogant, 46, screw-frigate, at Portsmouth. 1.3 to
be flag-lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir George
Seymour, the new Commander-in-Chief for the
West Indies.

Lieutenant Henry Thomas Smith (1841) died Dec.
26, aged 40.
There are half-a-dozen promotions due from the
rank of commander to that of captain. It is due to
the long-serving and deserving officers that these va-
cancies should be filled up.
EXPERIMENTS ON BOARD THE ARROGANT SCREW-
FRIGATE.—AII experiment was tried yesterday on
board the Arrogant, 46, Captain Robinson, at Ports-
mouth, with a view to test her after-body to dis-
cover if there was any deflexion that would affect the
screw-shaft, before the ship was allowed to take her
blocks. Sights were placed on the deck, from the
L tarail to the mainmast, and brought into Quo plane,