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Rh board the 36, Capts. Hon. Robt. Forbes, Micajah Malbon, and Lord Amelias Beauclerk, with whom he served in the North Sea and on the coast of Ireland until the summer of 1796, when he sailed, in the 74, bearing the flag of his former commander, then Rear-Admiral Bligh, for the West Indies. In the ensuing Oct. he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 64, Capts. Wm. Geo. Rutherford and Thos. Western – a vacancy on board that ship being the first that had occurred since his arrival. Rear-Admiral Bligh being soon, however, succeeded by Sir Hyde Parker, Mr. Schaw was by the latter, in Dec. 1796, superseded and ordered to do duty as Mate of the signals on board his flag-ship the 98. In the spring of 1797 a coup de soleil occasioned by constant observations made through a telescope at the mast-head under a broiling sun, having rendered imperative a change of climate, he returned home on board the 74, Capt, Thos. Twysden. Previously to this he had been nominated by Sir Hyde Parker Acting- Lieutenant of the 32, Capt. Hugh Pigot, at the time on a cruize; but the appointment being cancelled before her return in consequence of the advent from England of an officer, Mr. Douglas, on the Admiralty list for promotion, he never joined, and he was thus preserved from sharing in the untimely end which the officers experienced at the hands of their mutinous crew. Continuing in the under the command of Sir John Borlase Warren, Mr. Schaw saw much boat and other service on the coast of France. While lying on one occasion in Cawsand Bay he was attacked so severely by the measles that he was under the necessity of being sent to the hospital. Anxious to return to his duty, he obtained leave to do so before his strength had been sufficiently recruited, and the result was a disease of the chest, from which he has never since recovered. After assisting in the boats at the subsequent capture, off the Gironde, of a convoy, protected by a gun-brig, which was driven on shore, he was sent home in charge of one of the prizes. With much difficulty, owing to the badness of the weather, the inefficiency of the crew, and the rottenness of the sails and gear, he succeeded in reaching Plymouth, but in such a state that the vessel was run on the mud to prevent her sinking in deep water. On his passage to rejoin the in a ship, the name of which we do not happen to possess, Mr. Schaw contributed to the re-capture of an English brig, in command whereof he returned a second time to port. On 12 Oct. 1798, being again on board the, he aided at the defeat of the French squadron under Commodore Bompart, intended for the invasion of Ireland. In the early part of 1799 he became attached, first, to the 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Pasley at Plymouth, and next, as Master’s Mate, to the 36, Capt. Lord Viscount Ranelagh, which frigate, during a proximate cruize off Cape Ortegal, lost her bowsprit and fore and main masts, and was in consequence towed into Plymouth by the  40. Owing to a recommendation from Sir John Warren, Mr. Schaw, a few weeks after he had passed his examination, was made Lieutenant, 8 Feb. 1800, into the hired armed-brig, Capt. Thos. Innes, employed in convoying the trade to the Baltic. His next appointment was to the 38, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, under whom he attended on the royal family off Weymouth, and cruized with activity on the Lisbon station. When watering, about Jan. 1802, at Tetuan, preparatory to proceeding up the Mediterranean, an attack of typhus fever obliged him unfortunately to invalid home on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Alex. Cochrane. Until placed, at this time, on half-pay, he had not been ten days absent on leave since he had entered the service. At the commencement of the late war he volunteered to serve on half-pay in any of the ships more immediately opposed to the force destined by the enemy for the invasion of England; but the state of his health not being such as to permit of his continuing at sea, he was appointed, in July, 1803, to the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Yorkshire between Whitby and Redcar. While there he conceived the idea of capturing a French privateer hovering off the coast, and for this purpose proceeded, accompanied by several volunteers, on board an English merchantman in the offing. The Master, however, considering that he was not warranted by his instructions in risking the co-operation that was desired of him, declined lending his ship, and the intention was therefore frustrated. For his conduct on this occasion Mr. Schaw had the satisfaction of receiving the approbation of the Admiralty. His exertions on different occasions, particularly in saving life and property from wrecks, brought on at last an attack of spasmodic asthma; and in Oct. 1804 he was compelled to seek half-pay. He became a Retired-Commander on the junior list 26 Nov. 1830; and on the senior 26 July, 1844.

In 1803 Commander Schaw proposed to the Admiralty a plan for annoying the fleet in Brest harbour by means of a fire-ship – but the execution was considered fraught with too much hazard. He also suggested the possibility of seizing a large quantity of timber collected periodically in different ports of Norway; whither their Lordships, adopting his views, despatched a small squadron under the late Sir Robt. Stopford. On the arrival of the latter, however, it was found that the timber had been removed from within his reach. At the commencement of the general peace Commander Schaw made two propositions to the Government – one, to the effect that a certain amount of compensation-money should be given, towards the reduction of the half-pay list, to such as chose to accept it; and the other, that the rank of Retired-Commander should be conferred on those Lieutenants who, unfit for service, were willing to assume it without increase of pay or expectation of future promotion. On the accession of William IV. to the throne the latter measure was introduced. Commander Schaw has long been in the habit, we understand, of devoting the whole of his pay to charitable purposes, especially to those connected with the naval service. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 SCHOMBERG. , born in 1775, is eldest son of the late Sir Alex. Schomberg Kt., Captain R.N.,, by Mary Susannah Arabella, only child of the Rev. Henry Chalmers, and niece of Sir Edm. Aleyn, Bart.; brother of the late Capt. Sir Chas. Marsh Schomberg, R.N., Kt., C.B., K.C.H.; 