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Rh Theophilus Jones, and of 48 guns and 281 men, Capt. David Milne. In the former ship, one of those involved in the Spithead mutiny, he was for three years employed in the Channel; and in the, after serving off the coast of Africa, be contributed as Senior Lieutenant, 21 Aug. 1800, to the capture, in the Mona Passage, of La Vengeance French frigate of 52 guns and 326 men, an achievement which was the result of a brilliant action of two hours and a half, attended with a loss to the of 13 killed and 29 wounded, and to her opponent of more than twice that number. “To my First-Lieutenant Mr. Chetham,” writes Capt. Milne, in his public letter addressed on the occasion to Lord Hugh Seymour, the Commander-in-Chief, “I am greatly indebted for his cool and steady behaviour, and for the amazing fire kept up from the main-deck, which nothing could surpass.” As soon, therefore, as the official account of this affair reached the Admiralty, Mr. Chetham was advanced to the rank of Commander by a commission bearing date 7 Nov. 1800; but he did not succeed in procuring further employment until 20 April, 1804; when he at length obtained an appointment to the armed ship. In April, 1807, up to which period he had been chiefly engaged in affording protection to the trade in the North Sea and Baltic, he entered the Vistula on his own responsibility, with the hired armed brig under his orders, for the purpose of co-operating in the defence of Danzig, then besieged by the French army under Marshal Lefebvre. While on this service he volunteered to defend the entrance into Fairwater haven, which had been previously attacked. He also, on 17 April, made a desperate attempt to open a communication between Danzig and Fort Weeickselmunde, and for this purpose he was for two hours and a half engaged with upwards of 2000 French troops, who had strongly entrenched themselves at the Great Hollands, a position on the Nehrung, where they were further sheltered by the ruins of some houses lately burnt, and supported by 3 pieces of artillery, as likewise by a small battery at Legan, on the opposite bank of the river. Although his valour was not crowned with the success it deserved, we may mention, as elucidating the nature of the conflict, that the enemy sustained a loss of more than 400 killed and wounded, and that the, at the end of the period stated, had upwards of 1000 musket-balls sticking in her larboard side, that her larboard guns were all disabled, that her masts, sails, and rigging were much damaged, and that half her crew, including the First-Lieutenant, Mr. Jas. Edwards Eastman, were wounded. The conduct of Capt. Chetham on this occasion procured him a most complimentary address from General Kalkreuth, the Prussian Commander-in-Chief at Danzig, who was an eye-witness of the whole proceeding. On 12 May the assistance he sought to render to General Kaminsky in an endeavour made by that officer to fight his way from Fort Weeickselmunde to Danzig caused his name to be mentioned in very flattering terms to the Emperor Alexander. About this period he received orders to proceed to Elsineur, and take charge of a convoy thence to England; but at the solicitation of General Kaminsky he was induced to remain in Fairwater – a measure which the Admiralty approved. He ultimately, with the aid of Capt. Reuben Cailland Mangin of the praam, brought off Colonel Schuler and the garrison of Weeickselmunde at the very moment that place was about to be occupied by an overwhelming division of the French army; and on 13 Oct. 1807, as a reward for the services we have here detailed, particularly for his gallantry on 17 April, he was advanced (he had been placed in command 22 Sept. preceding of the  sloop at Chatham) to Post-rahk. Before he left the Capt. Chetham, who had had charge of a small squadron in the Vistula, repaired to Pillau, and had the gratification, while there, of receiving the personal thanks of the King of Prussia. His last appointments were – 7 June, 1809, pro tem, to the 74, in which ship (until superseded, 9 Aug. following, by her proper commander, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton) he took an active part in the operations connected with the expedition to the Scheldt, and was employed in landing troops and artillery – 13 June, 1810 (on his recovery from the Walcheren fever, after eight months of suffering), to the  64, armée en flûte – 7 May, 1812, to the  36 – 1 May, 1816, to the  50 – 17 May, 1833, for one year and 10 months, to the  74, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – and, 5 April, 1838, to the Superintendentship of Haslar Hospital and the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard. While commanding the, in which ship he was employed in conveying troops to and from England, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean, Capt. Chetham was once, when becalmed within gunshot of the Catalonian shore, warmly engaged with the enemy’s batteries and flotilla in the Straits of Messina. In the he was at first, for two months, engaged in watching the harbour of Cherbourg. He next, during the latter part of 1812, commanded a small detached squadron in the Baltic; on the evening of 28 Feb. 1813 he sank a French lugger off Beachy Head; he was the senior officer, throughout the whole of the ensuing season, of a light squadron stationed in the Sleeve; he captured, 12 Dec. following, the Abigail Danish national cutter with a cargo of naval stores from Frederickswarn bound to Copenhagen; and when afterwards on the Newfoundland station he towed the Paragon, a dismasted merchant-ship, with a valuable cargo, into Halifax, and received in consequence the public thanks of the merchants to whom she was consigned. In the, having volunteered to accompany the expedition against Algiers, he anchored, on the memorable 27 Aug. 1816, close ahead of the , Lord Exmouth’s flagship; and on that day the , so prominent was the part she took, expended, we are told, 22,800 pounds of gunpowder, 4116 round shot, and an ample proportion of grape and canister, and sustained a loss, besides being much cut up, of 17 men killed and 118 wounded. She afterwards, until paid off, in July, 1819, served as flag-ship to Sir David Milne on the Halifax station. Capt. Chetham resigned his appointments at Haslar, &c., on attaining Flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841; and has since been on half-pay. He was nominated a C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; a K.C.H. 1 Jan. 1837; and a K.C.B. 8 May, 1845. He received the honour of Knighthood 1 March, 1837.

Sir Edw. Chetham Strode married, 28 June, 1810, Margaret Kezia, third daughter of Peter Dean, Esq., of the Bahamas, and by that lady, who died U April, 1844, has issue three sons and six daughters. Two of the former, Augustus and Frederick Thomas, are Lieutenants R.N.

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This officer entered the Navy 7 Dec. 1830; passed his examination 4 July, 1838; served in the Mediterranean, as Mate, on board the 72, Capt. John Lawrence, and  110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 18 Nov. 1842. His appointments have since been – 3 Dec. 1842 and 25 May, 1843, again, as Additional, to the, and to the steam-sloop, Capt. Edw. John Carpenter, both in the Mediterranean, whence he returned at the close of 1845 – 4 June, 1846, to the 22, Capt. Geo. Elliot, fitting at Portsmouth – and, 7 Nov. following, to the 40, Capt. Henry John Codrington, with whom he is now again in the Mediterranean.

