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Rh  Alex. Hood, stationed in the West Indies; where, in 1781-2, he served with the late Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, as Midshipman, in the and  74’s. He then joined the sloop in the North Sea; and was next, between 1783 and 1793, employed, on the American and Home stations, in the, Capt. H. E. Stanhope, ; and ,Lieut.-Commanders Gunter and Hume,  90 and  100, flag-ships of Lord Hood,  32, Capt. Sam. Hood, and 90, bearing the flag of Admiral Roddam. On 26 Sept. 1793, having accompanied Lord Hood to the Mediterranean as Master’s Mate in his former ship the, he was made Lieutenant, during the occupation of Toulon, into the 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall. Deducting a half-pay interval of about two years, which occurred between 1800 and 1802, he officiated, from 14 Oct. 1796 until promoted to the rank of Commander 22 Jan. ,1806, as First-Lieutenant in the 38, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan, Edw. Griffith, and Thos. Elphinstone, and saw much general service. Under Capt, Elphinstone he assisted at the capture, in Dec. 1804, of the Spanish corvette Infanta Carlos, with a valuable cargo and 120,000 dollars in specie, from the Havana bound to Corunna. His last appointment was, 17 March, 1808, to the 28, successive flagship of Admirals Sir H. E. Stanhope, Wm. Albany Otway, and Sir Chas. Hamilton, in the river Thames, where he continued until 10 July, 1811. He accepted the rank of Captain on the Retired List 10 Sept. 1840.

 ROGIER. 

entered the Navy 27 March, 1808, passed his examination in 1816; and obtained his commission 30 Sept. 1826. He has since been on half-pay.

He married, 18 March, 1834, Mary, daughter of the late Rich. Waring, Esq., of St. Mary Cray, Kent.

 ROLLAND. 

entered the Navy 13 Jan. 1832; passed his examination 16 Feb. 1838; and for his services as Mate of the 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier, during the war in China (where he assisted, and was mentioned as “a young officer of much promise,” at the capture of Amoy, landed at the taking of Chinghae, and aided in towing several fire-vessels clear of H.M. shipping in the Ningpo river ), was presented with a commission bearing date 8 Oct. 1841. His appointments have since been – 25 Sept. 1842, to the 18, Capt. Louis Symonds Tindal, in the East Indies, whence he returned to England and was paid off at the close of 1843 – 9 Sept. 1844, to the  12, Capt. Henry Jas. Matson, on the Home station – 9 Dec. 1845, to the 26, Capts. Chas. Colville Frankland and Granville Gower Loch, of which ship, attached to the force in North America and the West Indies, he became First-Lieutenant – and 22 March, 1848, in the capacity last mentioned, to the steam-frigate of 560 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, now in the Mediterranean. – John P. Muspratt.

 ROLLESTON. 

, born 1 May, 1791, at Southampton, is son of Sam. Rolleston, Esq., a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Hants.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 64, Capts. Chas. Tinling and Rich. Hawkins; joined, in the following Sept., the 74, Capt. Thos. Byam Martin; and in Nov. 1805 was received on board the 74. While in that ship, which bore the flags successively of Admirals Sir Wm. Sidney Smith and Henry Edwin Stanhope, he was present, in 1806, at the defence of Gaeta, the capture of Capri, and the battle of Maida; and, in 1807, at the passage of the Dardanells, the destruction of the Turkish squadron at Point Pesquies, and the taking of Copenhagen. On the surrender of the Danish fleet he assisted in fitting out the of 60 guns. After serving for two years and eight months in the Mediterranean on board the 36, Capt. Thos. Chas. Brodie, and 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, he was there nominated, 29 Nov. 1810, Acting-Lieutenant lof the 120, also the flag-ship of Sir S. Hood. His appointment to the being -confirmed by a commission dated 8 June, 1811, he continued attached to that ship under the flag of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats until June, 1815. He then invalided. His next appointment was to the 22, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court, in which vessel he served on the Mediterranean, Newfoundland, Halifax, and Home stations, from March, 1813, until Feb. 1816, the last five months of the time as Acting-Commander. He has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 ROMNEY. 

was born in 1786. Five of his family were in the Naval and Military services.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1799, as L.M., on board the 18, Capts. John Watts, John Edgell, and Geo. Irwin, under whom he was for two years employed in the Downs and on the coast of Africa. Joining, then, the 74, Capts. Lord Viscount Garlies and John Loring, he was present under the latter officer, as Midshipman, at the blockade of Cape Francois, St. Domingo, and at the surrender, in the course of 1803, of the 74-gun ship Duquesne and schooner Oiseau, of La Mignonne corvette of 16 guns, of the 40-gun frigate La Créole, having on board the French General Morgan and 530 troops, and of a squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army from Cape Francois. In April, 1805, having returned to England, he removed with Capt. Loring to the, lying at Plymouth. He joined next the 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy, part of the force employed in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action; and on 8 June, 1807, up to which time he had been serving on the Irish station, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the 12, Lieut.-Commander John Aitkin Blow. In that vessel he witnessed the siege of Stralsund, and assisted at the taking of Copenhagen. Falling, 3 Nov. in the same year, into the hands of the enemy, Mr. Romney was detained a prisoner of war until Jan. 1809. On 25 March following he was made Lieutenant into the 74, Capt. Fras. Beauman, lying at Sheerness; and he was subsequently appointed – 3 May, 8 July, and 21 Sept. in the same year, to the 74, flag-ship of Sir R. J. Strachan,  10, Capt. Sam. Clarke, and 18, Capt. John Geo. Boss, stationed in the North Sea, Downs, and Baltic – 3 Feb. 1810, to the 64, Capts. Rich. Harrison Pearson and Robt. Williams, also in the Baltic – 11 April, 1811, to the 10, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, lying at North Yarmouth – in the spring of 1813, to the gun-boat service on the river Elbe, where he remained about 12 months and 4 Oct. 1814, for a few weeks, to the 10, Capt. Thos. Barker Devon, fitting at Portsmouth. In the ’s boats he cut out two Danish privateers from under a battery on the island of Zealand; he commanded a boat belonging to the at the capture of L’Eole privateer of 6 guns and 31 men off Heligoland, and at the destruction of another on the coast of Denmark; and while in the gun-boat service above alluded to, he was severely wounded in an attack upon a Danish flotilla at Busum, and was present at the reduction of Cuxhaven and Gluckstadt. Not having been afloat