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Rh forts. Prior to the first investment of Canton, he remored temporarily to the steamer, commanded by the present Capt. Wm. Hutcheon Hall, for the purpose of forcing, agreeably to a plan he had previously formed, the inner passage from Macao to Whampoa. During the advance he made on the latter place he contrived, aided by the boats of his own ship, to destroy, between 3 a.m. on 13 and 4 P.M. on 15 March, as many as five forts, one battery, two military stations, and nine war-junks, in which collectively were 115 guns and 8 gingalls. For these services he was nominated a C.B. 29 June, 1841.

Capt. Scott is the author of a work entitled ‘Naval Recollections.’ He married, 3 May, 1819, Caroline Ann, only child of the late Rich. Donovan, Esq., of Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire, by Caroline Elizabeth Yate, of Bromesberrow Place in the same co., and the last descendant of the ancient families of Yate,, and Dobyns. By that lady he has issue.

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was born 9 Dec. 1784. This officer entered the Navy, 28 Aug. 1794, as a Boy, on board the 98, Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats, Edw. Griffith, and John Child Purvis, in which ship, deducting an interval of eight months that followed the Spithead mutiny, he continued employed in the Channel and off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, part of the time under the flag of Sir John Colpoys, until Oct. 1800; when he was transferred as Midshipman (a rating he had attained 8 Dec. 1797) to the 18, Capts. Jas. Sanders and Spelman Swaine. On the night of 29 Aug. 1800, being then with the Ferrol expedition, he served with the boats of a squadron, 20 in number, commanded by Lieut. Henry Burke, at the cutting-out, close to the batteries in Vigo Bay, of La Guêpe privateer of 18 guns and 161 men, which vessel, 25 of whose people were killed and 40 wounded, was in 15 minutes boarded and carried, with a loss to the British of 3 seamen and 1 marine killed, 3 lieutenants, 12 seamen, and 5 marines wounded, and 1 seaman missing. In Nov. 1802, three months after his return from the West Indies, where he had been serving in the, Mr. Scott joined the 38, Capts. Jas. Hardy and Robt. Honyman, attached to the force in the North Sea; where and on the Jamaica station we find him employed, until Sept. 1805, in the 36, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, and  74’s, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, 12, Lieut.-Commander Price,  sloop, Capt. John Ayscough, and  (alias ), Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon. He was created Sub-Lieutenant 5 May, 1805, of the ; and Lieutenant, on 31 of the same month, of the. From Oct. 1805 vmtil May, 1815, he served in the North Sea, on the coast of Africa, in the West Indies and Channel, and on the coasts of Spain, Brazil, and North America, in the 50, Capts. Geo. Burlton, John Stiles, and John Fyffe, 16, Capt. Fras. Geo. Dickins, 38, Capt. Peter Parker,  98, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, 18, Capt. Chas. Pickford, and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Volant Vashon Ballard,  and  again, each bearing the flag of Sir A. Cochrane,  74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin, 44, Capt. John Fyffe, and  80, flag-ship of Sir A. Cochrane. In the, , , , and , he filled, for four years and a half, the post of First-Lieutenant. In the he saw much boat-service and assisted at the capture, among other vessels, of La Raparadora Spanish frigate-built privateer, of 30 guns and 315 men. In the barge of the he boarded the French national brig L’Oreste of 16 guns and 110 men, when that vessel was taken, 11 Jan. 1810, under the fire of a battery near Basseterre, after an engagement of two hours. During the operations which preceded the surrender of Guadeloupe he commanded the owing to the absence of his Captain. While attached to the he was constantly employed in her boats, and, besides aiding at the capture of many vessels in the Bay of Biscay, spiked and destroyed 28 pieces of cannon, and took several flagstaffs on the north coast of Spain. He was instrumental, in the, to the preservation of an English vessel which had run on shore on the coast of Brazil under circumstances of peculiar difficulty; and in the he accompanied the expedition against New Orleans. While there he was for 15 days employed in the debarkation of troops; and for his conduct in bringing guns from an advanced battery and placing them under the immediate directions of Major-General Sir Edw. Pakenham, obtained the thanks of Sir A. Cochrane, the Naval Commander-in-Chief; by whom he was allowed to join a party which, commanded by Capt. Rowland Money, stormed, 8 Jan. 1815, a strong fort on the right bank of the Mississippi. On that occasion, Capt. Money having been early wounded, Lieut. Scott led the men in person and materially contributed to the successful issue of the attack. His exertions were witnessed by the present Sir Edw. Codrington, from whom and from Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge, who commanded the brigade of seamen serving on shore, he had the gratification of receiving letters very flattering to his feelings. His conduct in former instances had also procured him letters of approbation from Capts. Stiles, Dickins, Ballard, and Chas. Dilkes (Captain of the ), and from Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon, Commander-in-Chief at the Brazils. On leaving the he took up a Commander’s Commission bearing date 13 June, 1815. He has since been on half-pay.

Commander Scott married first, 3 July, 1815, Miss Cole, of Waltham, co. Essex, sister of Jas. Cole. Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N.; and secondly, in Nov. 1840, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of J. Gibson, Esq., of Hatter’s Lane, Lodbury, Gloucestershire. He has a family of 12 children.

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(whose commission bears date 24 Jan. 1846) served, from 24 March, 1843, until paid off in 1847, in the 24, Capts. Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley and Wm. Broughton, on the S.E. coast of America; and has been employed, since 8 Jan. 1848, in the Mediterranean in the steam-frigate of 800-horse power, Capt. Wm. Ramsay.

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entered the Navy 14 Feb. 1829; passed his examination in 1835; and from 1839 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on his return to England 4 Oct. 1843, was employed as Mate in the, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, on a voyage of discovery to the Antarctic Ocean. He afterwards, from 24 July, 1845, until paid off at the commencement of 1848, served on the coast of North America in the Columbia steam-surveying-vessel, commanded by the present Capt. Peter Fred. Shortland, and also by Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen.

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entered the Navy 1 May, 1830; passed his examination 25 July,