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Rh  official letter, had at all times merited his highest approbation and now induced him to recommend him to the notice of the Commander-in- Chief. As a reward for his gallantry, he was offered by the latter the command of either of the two prizes. Choosing the one he had boarded, and whose name on her being added to the British Navy was changed to, he was accordingly appointed to her 8 April ensuing; and on 23 July he was confirmed. He was presented, we may add, with the sum of 100l. by the Patriotic Society. He afterwards, in 1807, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen; and in March, 1808, having returned to the West Indies, he served at the reduction of Deseada. On 23 April following he was nominated, on the station last named, Acting-Captain of the 32; and he was there posted by the Admiralty, 10 June in the same year, into the  38, which frigate, in the spring of 1809, he brought home and paid off. He was then appointed to the 74; and in the ensuing summer he sailed with the expedition to the Walcheren. Puring the operations in the Scheldt he served with the flotilla in an attack on Ter Ver, and commanded a division of armed transports employed to complete the investment of Flushing. f He lost a Lieutenant and 2 men in passing the enemy’s batteries. He went on half-pay in Jan. 1810, and has not been since able to obtain an appointment. He attained flag-rank 9 Nov. 1846.

Rear-Admiral Ward married 9 Dec. 1811, Sophia Mary, youngest daughter of E. J. Mallough, Esq., of Mitcham. One of his sons,, is a Commander R.N.; and another, Henderson, a First-Lieutenant, R.M. (1847).

 WARD. 

(a) entered the Navy, 1 Jan. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, with whom he continued to serve as Midshipman in the North Sea and Channel and off Cadiz, the last few months in the 74, until Aug. 1808. On 16 May, 1804, he was present in the in a gallant attack made by a squadron under the orders of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith upon a strong division of the French flotilla passing alongshore from Flushing to Ostend. On leaving the he entered the Royal Naval College, where he remained until April, 1811. He then rejoined the ship last mentioned on the East India station; whence in 1812 he returned to England (he had attained, before, the rating of Master’s Mate) in the 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye. On his arrival he was received on board the 38, Capt. Geo. Harris, under whom we find him cruizing for several months on the coast of France, and in April, 1814, participating in the operations up the Gironde, where he witnessed the destruction of a line-of-battle ship, 3 brigs of war, several smaller vessels, and of all the forts and batteries on the north side of the river. After serving for about two months in the yacht, Capts. Thos. Eyles and Geo. Scott, he was promoted, on his return from escorting the Emperor of Russia to the shores of France, to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June, 1814. His subsequent appointments were – 24 Oct. 1814, to the 18, Capts. Wm. Rich. Bamber, Thos. Prickett, Robt. Lisle Coulson, and Edw. Curzon, in which vessel he served on the Irish, Worth Sea, and West India stations until obliged, in Feb. 1818, to invalid – 5 April, 1820, to the  18, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, engaged in the suppression of smuggling on the Irish coast – 28 Dec. 1820 and 3 Nov. 1821, to the 18, Capt. David Buchan, and  24, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, both at Newfoundland, whence he returned in July, 1822 – and, 14 Feb. 1827, to the  74, Capts. Joshua Sydney Horton and Henry Stuart, lying at Sheerness. In the  and  he was First-Lieutenant. He has been on half-pay since Aug. 1829.

 WARD. 

(b) entered the Navy, 12 June, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 50, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, bearing the flag of Sir Erasmus Gower at Newfoundland. From May, 1807, until Feb. 1809 he served in the 64, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen, in the North Sea and at the Cape of Good Hope; he was employed during the next 19 months at Portsmouth and in the Channel in the, flagship of Sir Roger Curtis, , Capt. Jas. Green, and 50, Commodore Robt. Mends; and from Sept. 1811 until Sept. 1813 he was stationed in the Baltic in the 42, Capts. Chas. Dashwood and Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, sloop, Capt. Geo. Edw. Watts, 44, Capts. Wm. Fothergill and Thos. Browne, and 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart. In the he acted as Lieutenant. From March, 1814, until Sept. 1815 he was employed in the West Indies and Downs in his former ship the, and in the 44, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, sloop, Capt. Gore, as Acting-Lieutenant in the, Capt, Henry Litchfield, and, as Lieutenant (commission dated 3 Aug. 1814), in the  again, bearing the flags of Rear-Admirals Brown and Scott. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 WARDE, K.H.

, born 13 Sept. 1786, is second son of General Geo. Warde, of Woodland Castle, near Swansea, by Charlotte, only daughter of Spencer Madan, D.D., successively Bishop of Bristol and Peterborough, and niece of the first Marquess Cornwallis and the late Admiral Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, G.C.B. He is member of a family which has been for centuries seated in the neighbourhood of Pontefraot, co. York; one of whom was Lord Mayor of London about the end of the seventeenth century.

This officer entered the Navy, in the summer of 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol. (under the auspices of the late Admiral Sir John Colpoys), on board the 74, Capt. Geo. Martin, with whom he continued employed as Midshipman until Sept. 1802. At first he was stationed off Cadiz, and next in various parts of the Mediterranean; where he served at the blockade of Malta until its surrender, witnessed the capture, in 1800, of the Généreux 74 and Diane frigate, and took part in the operations of 1801 in Egypt. He was also present at the reduction of Fort St. Elmo, near Naples, and was at other times often in action with the enemy. In Oct. 1802 he joined the 36, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, stationed in the Downs; and on the renewal of hostilities in 1803 he was there afforded an opportunity of seeing much boat-service and of aiding at the capture of several of the Boulogne flotilla. When the war first broke out the was lying at Long Reach, in the river Thames. Hands being wanted, a boat was sent under the command of a Lieutenant, Spear, in company with whom was Mr. Warde, to impress some out of the Dorsetshire East Indiaman: a scuffle took place; Mr. Spear and another were wounded, and 2 of the Indiaman’s people killed. The result was a coroner’s inquest which brought a verdict of wilful murder against the Lieutenant; who however, on being tried at Maidstone, was declared not guilty, upon the ground that he had acted only in self-defence. In 1803-4 Mr. Warde successively joined the 74 and  and  98’s, commanded in the Channel by his friend, Capt. Martin. In the he was for a time under the flag of his grand-uncle Admiral Cornwallis; whose good opinion, we learn, he soon riveted. Of the he was nominated, after having passed a creditable examination, Acting-Lieutenant. He was confirmed by the Admiralty 13 Feb. 1805; and on being in the following summer appointed to the 32, Capts. Philip Bowes Vere Broke and Hon. John Astley Bennet, he proceeded on a