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1104 SPENCER. 

entered the Navy, 9 Nov. 1796, as A.B., on the, Capts. Chas. Wemyss and John Seater, stationed on the coast of North America. In the following Aug. he attained the rating of Midshipman; and in April, 1800, he removed to the frigate, Capt. Dacres. After serving for three years and four months in that ship in the Channel and Mediterranean, he became Master’s Mate, in Aug. 1803, of the 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, under whom he was wounded while in pursuit of a French privateer. We believe he was also, 11 July, 1804, present in the boats at the cutting-out affair detailed in. In the course of the ensuing month he joined the 100, flag-ship of Lord Nelson; and in her, on his return from pursuing the combined squadrons to the West Indies, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing in the glories of Trafalgar. He served subsequently, from Nov. 1805 until April, 1806, in the 98, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood off Cadiz; and on 18 Oct. in the latter year he was made Lieutenant into the  98, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez in the Channel. From July to Sept. 1807 he cruized off Ferroll in the 74, Capt. Sir Rich. King; during the next two years he filled an appointment in the Impress; he then, in Oct. 1809, joined the 10, Capt. Jas. Anderson, on the Downs station; and from March, 1810, until Jan. 1818, and again from July, 1823, until the close of 1837, he was employed in the Transport Service; in which, we are informed, he was present at Algiers. Since 10 June, 1839, he has been officiating as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.

Lieut. Spencer was left a widower 1 July, 1835. – Collier and Ince.

 SPETTIGUE. 

died about the commencement of 1847.

This officer entered the Navy 20 April, 1812; passed his examination in 1819; obtained his first commission 17 March, 1826; served from 6 Nov. 1832 until 1837 in the 78, Capts. Hon. Donald Hugh Mackay and Wm. Elliott, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations; and from 25 July in the latter year until promoted to the rank of Commander 27 Dec. 1838, was employed as First-Lieutenant, at Home, again off Lisbon, and in North America and the West Indies, in the 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson. He filled an appointment in the Coast Guard from 23 June, 1840, until 1845.

 SPIERS. 

entered the Navy, 4 Feb. 1804, as Ordinary, on board the 74, Capt. Israel Pellew, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean. Removing, in July, 1805, to the 80, Capts. Fras. Wm. Austen, Thos. Geo. Shortland, and Chas. Inglis, he fought in that ship, as Midshipman, under the flag of Sir Thos. Louis, in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, and was Master’s Mate of her at the passage of the Dardanells and in the expedition to Egypt in 1807. He co-operated also in the capture, in June, 1809, of the islands of Ischia and Procida; assisted in causing the self-destruction of the ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion off Cape Cette 26 Oct. following; and, besides contributing to the annihilation of a gun-boat fiotilla on the coast of Italy, assisted, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the defence of Messina against the French in 1810. He subsequently acted for three months as Lieutenant in the 18, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt; and on 3 Jan. 181 1 he was confirmed into the  64, Capt. Edw. Chetham. In the course of the same year we find him serving off Cadiz in the 18, Capts. Wm. Shepheard and Geo. Augustus Westphal; and, in Feb. and Nov. 1813, appointed to the Minos 12 and 74, Capts. Jas. Aberdour and Edw. W. C. B. Owen, on the Newfoundland and North Sea stations. While in the latter ship, in which he continued until April, 1814, he landed at the head of a division of seamen on the island of South Beveland, and was publicly thanked for the conduct he displayed. Since he left the he has been on half-pay.

 SPONG. 

was born in 1796. He is nephew of the late gallant Capt. Chas. John Moore Mansfield, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Feb. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Sam. Warren, with whom, after having served off Flushing, he removed as Midshipman, in Aug. of the same year, to the 38, and sailed for the East Indies, where he was actively employed, in the boats and otherwise, at the reduction of Java. On leaving the, which ship had been latterly commanded by Capt. Fras. Mason, he was a second time, in June, 1813, placed under the orders of Capt. Warren in the 74. In her and in the 32, Capt. Chas. Dilkes, he was for about two years and three months stationed in the Mediterranean. He served next, between Dec. 1815 and March, 1817, at Chatham in the 74,, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, and hospital-ship, Lieut.-Commander Jas. James; and in July, 1819, at which period he had been again, for 12 months, employed in the East Indies in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, and frigate, Capt. John Rich. Lumley, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier; under whom we find him accompanying an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, and assisting, in Jan. 1820, at the capture of Ras-al-Khyma, their principal stronghold, and the destruction of its fortifications and shipping. He was in consequence confirmed a Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 7 of the month last mentioned; but owing to the severe exertion he had undergone, added to the effects of the climate, he was obliged, shortly afterwards, to invalid, and at his own expense. His subsequent appointments were – 30 Nov. 1822, to the 28, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, at Sheerness – 21 Feb. 1823, to the  18, Capts. Edw. Curzon and Wm. Fanshawe Martin, in South America – 11 May, 1825, to the 120, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Moorsom in the river Medway, where he remained until 1827 – 1 1 Oct. 1834, for a few months, to the Coast Guard – 19 Aug. 1841, to the 72, guard-ship at Chatham, Capt. Wm. Henry Shirreff, with whom he continued for rather more than three years – and 8 March, 1845, and 23 April, 1846, to the command of the cutter and  steam-sloop, the former employed on particular service, the latter in the Mediterranean. He was advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.

In 1835 Commander Spong received, at the recommendation of Lord Auckland, the appointment of Stipendiary Magistrate in the West Indies, with the distinct assurance from his Lordship that his claims to promotion would be thereby strengthened. Owing to the apprenticeship-system he was under the necessity of returning to England two years sooner than he had anticipated, but not until he had lost the chance, which the Brevet accorded on the