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1040 prey got off. The ’s mainmast on the occasion was shattered, and several of the crew were for a time rendered blind. Capt. Scott himself was struck down, and for more than an hour lay insensible. The effects of the shock he sustained he feels to this day. He was Posted, 22 Oct. 1814, into the 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith at Halifax – returned in April, 1815, to England – and, unable to procure further employment, was induced, 1 Oct. 1846, to accept the Retirement.

He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Halliday, Esq., and, secondly, Anne, daughter of Jas. Gibbon, Esq.; and has issue.

 SCOTT. 

is son of the late Colonel Geo. Scott, R.A., by Mary, daughter of Capt. T. Reeves, R.A., who was killed in the King’s Bastion at Gibraltar, when attacked by the enemy’s blockships in 1782.

This officer entered the Navy, 9 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, commanded by the late Lord Gardner, whom he followed, in June, 1807, and June, 1808, into the  110 and  74. In the he fought in Sir Robt. Calder’s action and in that under Sir Rich. Strachan 22 July and 4 Nov. 1805, besides witnessing the surrender, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. Continuing attached to the, under the command of Capt. Sam. Warren, until the early part of 1810, he contributed in the boats of that ship to the capture, 19 June, 1809, on the coast of Finland, of three vessels, and of one of four batteries by which they had been covered, mounting 4 24-pounders and garrisoned by 103 men; as also, 7 July following, to the brilliant capture, off Percola Point, of the six Russian gun-boats mentioned in our history of the services of Capt. Chas. Allen; and to the destruction, in Aug. of the same year, of another battery on the coast of Finland, defended by a large body of troops. On all these occasions he highly distinguished himself, and in particular in the affair at Percola, where, as we learn from a testimonial written by the present Capt. John Sheridan, at the time one of the Lieutenants of the, “his active, cool, determined, and brave conduct obtained for him the admiration of his Captain” – by whom, as well as by his patron Lord Gardner, he appears to have been more than once most strongly recommended to the Admiralty. After serving at the siege of Cadiz in the 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Child Purvis, and acting (during the defence of Sicily against Murat) as First of the  16, Capt. John Duff Markland, Mr. Scott, about July, 1810, joined the  74, Capt. Edw. Fellowes; of which ship, in compliment to the services of his father and grandfather, he had been created a Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 4 of the preceding May. He invalided home from the Mediterranean in Feb. 1811; and was afterwards, from June, 1812, until June, 1816, employed on the North American station, three years of the time as First-Lieutenant, in the 32, Capts, John Rich. Lumley and Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton. While in that frigate he served in her boats at the capture, 25 Nov. 1812, of the privateer Joseph and Mary of 4 guns and 73 men; and assisted, in 1813, in taking the brig-of-war Viper of 12 guns, the privateer Revenge of 12 guns and 89 men, and the town of Hampton. He shared also in the attack upon Crany Island; aided in June, 1814, in company with the 38, in silencing the fire of a battery and in enforcing, off St. Leonard’s Rock, the retreat of Commodore Barney’s flotilla; took, in the course of the same month, with the boats of the  and Loire under his orders, the town of Benedict, on the river Patuxent, possession of which he retained, in face of a large body of cavalry and artillery, until he had cleared the storehouses of their contents; and commanded, 13 Oct., the boats of his own frigate and the Dispatch brig, at the cutting out, under the heavy fire of a battery and of a troop of militia, of the U.S. Revenue-schooner Eagle, at anchor within half pistol-shot of Negro Head, Long Island Sound, where 8 of her guns, in number 10, had been landed for her defence. Although, on the paying off of the, he had been three years her First-Lieutenant and had, as we have shown, served with much activity and gallantry, he was unable to procure promotion; nor has he since been more successful in his applications to the Admiralty for employment.

Lieut. Scott has had command of a packet under the control of the Post-Office.

 SCOTT. 

entered the Navy, 3 Feb. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. Joseph Sydney Yorke. After serving with that officer on the Home station in the same ship and, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 36 and  74, he became attached, about the end of 1801, to the  74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Totty in the West Indies. He next, in 1802, joined the 36, Capt. John Wm. Taylor Dixon, which frigate was wrecked off the coast of Portugal 1 April, 1804; and, in 1806, the 98, Capt. J. S. Yorke, and  120, flag-ship of Lord St. Vincent, stationed in the Channel; where he subsequently acted as Lieutenant in the  98, Capt. Thos. Bertie, and 110, and  74, flag-ships of Admirals Sir Chas. Cotton and Albemarle Bertie. He was confirmed in that rank 16 March, 1808; and was afterwards appointed – 14 May, 1808, 12 June and 24 Nov. 1810, and 17 Oct. 1811, to the 80, Capt. J. S. Yorke,  38, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy, 74, flag-ship of Admirals Sir Thos. Williams and Philip Chas. Durham, and 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, on the Channel, Lisbon, North Sea, and Mediterranean stations – 4 Aug. 1813, after eight months of half-pay, to the charge of a Signal-station on the coast of Kent – and, 28 Nov. 1814, to the 38, Capt. Peter Rainier, at the Cape of Good Hope. He attained his present rank 20 Sept. 1815; and has since been on half-pay.

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was born about 1789.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 May, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the of 46 guns and 327 men, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham; became Midshipman, in May, 1800, of the 98, Capts. Thos. Macnamara Russell and David Atkins, flag-ship in the Channel of Sir Erasmus Gower; served from March, 1801, until Sept. 1804, on the West India and Home stations, in the 74, Capts. Robt. Carthew Reynolds and Robt. Cuthbert, and 38, Capt. John Larmour; and from the latter date until March, 1807, was employed, more than two years of the time as Sub-Lieutenant, in the  gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John Hinton. In Sept. 1798 the, the ship first mentioned, encountered, and for 17 days dogged, in company with the 38, a French squadron under Commodore Bompart, consisting of La Hoche of 78 guns, eight frigates, a brig, and a schooner, destined for the invasion of Ireland. With five of the frigates, after the three others together with the line-of-battle ship had fallen into the hands of Sir John Borlase Warren, she came, 12 Oct., singly into collision, and sustained a loss, with injury to her masts and yards, of 2 men killed and 13 wounded. On 18 of the same month we find her, in company with the 18, enduring a similar loss in a gallant action of an hour and a quarter, which terminated in the capture of La Loire of 46 guns and 664 men (including troops), of whom 46 were killed and 71 wounded. While attached to the ( Mr. Scott contributed, also,