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1034 as a Supernumerary, to the 76, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Baker, and 18, Capts. Chas. Talbot and John Jas. Onslow, both on the South American station – and, in the course of the month last mentioned, again as First, to the, in which ship he returned to England and was paid off in Aug. 1832. While commanding the he collected a large amount of specie in the Pacific for England, and conducted the ship from Calao to Rio de Janeiro. A few days after he had left her she was wrecked, and he in consequence lost nearly 800l. of freight-money. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 SCALLON. 

was born 13 Nov. 1771, and died 26 March, 1848, at Prittlewell, co. Essex.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as Lieutenant’s Servant, on board the 74, Capt. Locker, with whom he served at Plymouth in the same ship and in the  74, until some time in the following year. From 9 July, 1793, until 13 Dec. 1797, we find him employed in the North Sea and Channel, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, with Capt. Peter Halkett, in the 16 and  28. In the he witnessed the capture, 12 Jan. 1794, of La Trompeuse French brig of 18 guns; and in the  he was present in 1797 at the mutiny at the Nore and in the action off. After he had been for six months attached to the and  74’s, Capts. Wm. Geo. Fairfax and Wm. Johnstone Hope, he was promoted, 23 June, 1798, to the rank of Lieutenant. He served next, from the ensuing July until July, 1800, in the bomb, Capt. Adam Drummond, and  50, Capt. Michael Halliday, both in the Mediterranean – from Aug. 1800 until June, 1803, in the  98, flag-ship of Sir Andrew Mitchell, and  36, Capts. Sir Edw. Hamilton, Chas. Brisbane, and Jas. Katon, in the Channel and West Indies – and between July, 1803, and Oct. 1815, chiefly on the Home station, in the 44, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, 16, Capt. Hon. John Astley Bennot,  36, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, 74, Capt. Peter Halkett, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway, Commodore Rich. Goodwin Keats, and Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley,, 74, 100, and  74, bearing each the flag of Sir Thos. Williams (under whom, in the two former, he officiated as Signal-Lieutenant from 7 Sept. 1810 until 25 Oct. 1811), 74, Capt. Ross Donnelly (which ship he fitted out as First-Lieutenant), Quebec receiving-ship (at the Nore), commanded for 12 months by himself, and  44, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral P. Halkett. In the he assisted at the bombardment of Alexandria and the capture of several ships on their way to Gibraltar; and while belonging to the  he took part in several boat affairs. On one occasion in particular, 3 April, 1801, he aided in regaining possession of an English merchant-ship, although under the protection of five batteries at Bréhat, and in tow of a lugger and several boats, all of which, after a severe conflict, were driven on shore, with a loss to the British of 2 men killed and a Lieutenant of Marines, Walter Tait, severely wounded. The was engaged in frequent skirmishes with the French gun-vessels off Brest; and the  formed one of the squadron under Sir Thos. Louis at the capture of Le Président French frigate of 44 guns, 27 Sept. 1806. She also accompanied the expeditions of 1807 and 1809 against Copenhagen and the Walcheren, besides being for nine months employed, prior to the Convention of Cintra, in blockading the Russian fleet in the Tagus. On the surrender of the Danish capital and fleet, Mr. Scallon was placed in charge of the Princess Sophia Frederica 74, and sent in her with naval stores to Portsmouth. When midway across the North Sea the ship encountered a severe gale, and had at one time 7 feet water in the well. The four pumps were kept constantly at work, and had the weather not moderated she must inevitably have foundered. On reaching the Downs she was again very nearly lost. During the period of his servitude in the, Mr. Scallon, in the early part of 1811, co-operated with the British army up the Tagus. So excellent were his discipline and arrangement while in discharge of the difficult and responsible duties attached to the command of the receiving-ship, alluded to above, that not a single man was enabled to effect his escape. We may add that in the, , , , , and , he filled the post of First-Lieutenant – embracing, altogether, a period of seven years. From 12 April, 1822, until promoted to the rank of Commander 15 May, 1823, he served at Plymouth as Senior of the 76, Capt. Thos. Dundas; and from 11 March, 1834, until April, 1837, he was employed in the Ordinary at Chatham – the last eight months as Commander of the 22.

Commander Scallon married, 13 June, 1813, Rebecca, second daughter of Mr. M. Saward, of Thorpe Hall, Prittlewell, Essex, by whom he had issue three sons and three daughters.

 SCANTLEBURY. 

entered the Navy; 26 Sept. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 24, Capt. Joseph Nourse, in which vessel, stationed in the West Indies, he contributed to the capture of several armed and other vessels. Towards the close of 1805 he made a voyage from Portugal to the Cove of Cork in the 18, Capt. Jas. Wilkes Maurice; and he then joined the 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, again in the West Indies; where, and on the coast of North America, we find him, from Jan. 1807, until the receipt, in Dec. 1814, of a commission bearing date 4 Oct. in that year, serving in the 32, Capts. Thos. John Cochrane, Wm. Maude, Chas. Napier, and Hon. Jas. Wm. King, 38, Capt. Hassard Stackpoole, and  74, and  80, flag-ships of Sir A. Cochrane. He was present in the, we believe, at the capture, in 1807, of La Favorite French national ship, of 29 guns and 150 men, and at the reduction of the Danish Islands. From the time he left the until 9 June, 1815, he served on board the  troop-ship, Capt. Geo. Wm. Hughes d’Aeth, part, at first, of the force employed in the expedition against New Orleans.

Lieut. Scantlebury has long been a Police Magistrate at Barbadoes.

 SCHAW. 

, born in March, 1781, at Albury, co. Surrey, is of the family of Sir John Schaw of Greenock, whose heiress married, in 1718, Charles, eighth Lord Cathcart, grandfather, through a second marriage, of William Schaw, first Earl Cathcart, who commanded in chief the military part of the expedition against Copenhagen in 1807. His father, having succeeded to landed property in Ireland in right of his wife, a sister of Sir Brydges Baldwin, was appointed a Colonel of the Wicklow militia on the first formation of that body.

This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1793, on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Wm. Clement Finch and Rich. Rodney Bligh, the latter of whom he followed as Midshipman, in April, 1794, into the 74, which ship, on her homeward paasage, after having escorted convoy to a certain latitude, was captured, 6 Nov. in the same year, despite a glorious resistance, attended with a loss to her of 40 men killed and wounded, by five French 74’s and three frigates under Rear-Admiral Nielly. During the height of the conflict a piece of the foremast was carried away, and passed so close to Mr. Schaw that he fell senseless on the gangway. On being exchanged, after several months of painful captivity, he was received, about July, 1795, on