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and cousin of His family is a branch of that of the Duke of Schomberg, who commanded the King’s troops and fell at the battle of the, aged 80. This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1785, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the yacht, commanded in the Irish Channel by his father. Sir A. Schomberg. After having been for about two years and a half lent as Midshipman to the 24, Capt. Lambert Brabazon, he joined, tovpards the close of 1789, the  98, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Plymouth, 32, Capt. Edm. Dod, attached to the force in the Channel, and 50, bearing the flag of Sir John Laforey in the West Indies, where he was confirmed a Lieutenant, 26 July, 1793, in the  sloop, Capt. Henry Paulet, and next appointed to the  32, Capts. Wm. Hancock Kelly and Henry Wm. Bayntun, and 98, flag-ship of Sir John Jervis. While belonging to the he commanded a body of 50 seamen, in conjunction with the army under Sir Chas. Grey, during the operations against Martinique, Ste. Lucie, and Guadeloupe. He also served on shore when an attempt was made to re-conquer the posts in the island last mentioned, which had been unexpectedly and successfully attacked, in the hurricane season, by a Republican force under the notorious Victor Hugues. Having, in consequence of a severe attack of yellow fever, returned, towards the close of 1794, to England in the 64, Commodore E. Dod, he was next, 22 June, 1795, appointed to the  of 56 guns and 320 men, Capt. Henry Trollope; in which ship, stationed in the North Sea, we find him, 15 July, 1796, contributing to the defeat (after a fierce and memorably gallant engagement, productive of serious loss to the enemy, although not more than 2 were wounded on the part of the British) of a French squadron, consisting of four frigates and two ship-corvettes, assisted by a brig-corvette and an armed cutter, the whole of which were compelled to sheer off. During this action, which took place in a quarter-less-five fathoms water, close to the Brill lighthouse, Mr. Schomberg, who commanded on the lower deck, finding that his men were not sufficiently numerous to fight all the guns on both sides, resorted to Lord Anson’s expedient of forming them into small gangs, whose duty it became to load and run the guns out, while two picked hands left at each of them pointed and fired. On the return of the to port, having been recommended for his conduct, he was appointed, 28 July, 1796, First of the  32, as a step towards promotion; but that ship unfortunately was destroyed by fire, in Hamoase, while he was on his passage to join her. In the following Jan., however, he was placed in command of the brig of 14 guns and 86 men; in which vessel (invested, 2 April, 1798, with the rating of a sloop-of-war) he continued employed on the coasts of Holland and Norway, at Newfoundland, off Cherbourg, and on the Guernsey and Jersey stations, until advanced, 1 Jan. 1801, to Post-rank. While cruizing, 22 July, 1797, off the Doggerbank, in company with the sloop, Capt. Robt. Honyman, the made prize of Le Prospère privateer of 14 guns and 73 men. In 1798, during her passage from Newfoundland with the trade bound to the coast of Portugal, she encountered on the Great Bank a tremendous gale, was thrown on her beam-ends, and nearly foundered. On this occasion she parted with 12 of her guns; and on another she pitched away her bowsprit and foremast. Capt. Schomberg’s last appointments were – in 1804, to the temporary command of the 98, off Brest – 31 Oct. 1807, to the  of 48 guns and 300 men – 21 March, 1812, to the  64 – 13 Aug. following, to the  74, employed, until paid off in Aug. 1815, on the Home and North American stations – and, 1 March, 1829, to the  74, fitting for the Mediterranean. In the Loire, with the 32, Capt. John Ayscough, under his orders, he made a voyage, in the spring of 1808, to the Greenland seas for the protection of the fisheries, and proceeded as far as lat. 77° 30' N., long. 3° 00' E. He next, towards the close of the same year, accompanied only by the 38 and  24, escorted from Falmouth to Corunna no less than 168 transports, having on board an army of 14,000 men. He co-operated subsequently with the patriots on the coasts of Galicia, Asturias, and Biscay; brought 100 Russian prisoners-of-war from the Tagus to England; effected the capture, 5 Feb. 1809, of the French national ship Hébé (afterwards assigned the name of ); conveyed, early in 1810, a battalion of the 60th Regt. from Spithead to Barbadoes; and had charge, during the siege of Guadeloupe, of a squadron stationed to windward of that island for the interception of any reinforcements intended for the enemy’s garrison. After having brought home from the latter place the French Captain-General Ernouf and his suite, and encountered a hurricane which sent two transports full of prisoners to the bottom, he proceeded to the coast of Norway, and had the good fortune while there to save H.M. sloop from falling into the hands of eight Danish national brigs, who, favoured by a sudden calm, accomplished their escape by sweeping. Between 1810 and 1812 we find him chiefly employed in command of light squadrons in the Baltic, where he watched a Russian fleet in the Gulf of Finland, rendered great security to trade, and so completely blockaded the Danish cruizers that a single sloop-of-war was a sufficient protection for any fleet of merchantmen crossing the North Sea. He once also escorted an outward-bound West India convoy to the latitude of Madeira; and in Dec. 1811 was only spared, by an effort of judgment, from sharing the melancholy fate of the, with whom he had been in company a short time before she was wrecked. During the time he commanded the, Capt. Schomberg occasionally blockaded Rochefort and L’Orient, and in 1814, with the 74 and  20 under his orders, conducted a body of troops from Bordeaux to Quebec, on their passage whither the line-of-battle ships had not less than 1000 men each on board in addition to their proper complements. He continued in the, on the Mediterranean station, until advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral 22 July, 1830. On 23 Nov. 1841 he was promoted to the rank he now holds. At the end of the war Vice-Admiral Schomberg suggested to Lord Melville a plan, much approved at the time, although eight or nine years elapsed before any of his suggestions were adopted, for victualling the seamen and marines of the fleet, wherein he was the first to propose the substitution