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Rh WARDLE. 

entered the Navy, 12 April, 1803, as A.B., on board the 64, Capts. David Colby, Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, and Isaac Wolley, employed at first off the Texel under the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornhrough, and next as a guard-ship in the river Humber. In March, 1805, he removed to the 64, Capts. Thos. Briggs and Henry Hill; and in March, 1808, after having served in the Channel and North Sea, and brought convoy home from St. Helena, he joined, as Master’s Mate (a rating he had attained in Dec. 1806), the 74, Capts. Geo. Hope, Geo. Cockburn, Wm. Chas. Fahie, and Chas. Dilkes. In her he served off Rochefort, and then sailed for the West Indies, where he assisted at the reduction of Martinique and at the capture, 17 April, 1809, after an arduous chase of two days and a close action of an hour and a quarter (wherein the, who was supported by the 32, had 9 killed and 30 wounded), of the D’Haupoult of 74 guns and 680 men, of whom between 80 and 90 were killed and wounded. On 7 Dec. 1809 Mr. Wardle was nominated by Sir Alex. Cochrane, who had hoisted his flag on board the, Acting-Lieutenant of the sloop, Capts. Wm. Elliott, Geo. M‘George, and Edw. Flin. In April, 1810, he was superseded. He was officially promoted, however, 10 Sept. following; and was subsequently, 18 Dec. 1810, 7 May, 1811, and 4 May, 1812, appointed to the 18, Capt. Geo. Downie, and and  98’s, Capts. Sam. Hood Linzee, Wm. Kent, and Robt. Rolles, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. In the he took part in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial engagements with the French Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814. He was placed on half-pay in July of the latter year, and has not been since afloat. – Joseph Woodhead.

 WARE. 

, born in 1792, is third son of the late Thos. Ware, Esq., of Woodfort, near Mallow, co. Cork, by Mary, second daughter of Wm. Beamish, Esq., 11. N., of Willis Grove, co. Cork; and brother-in-law of the late Major Du Cane and the late Lieut.-Colonel Alfred Geo. Schreiber.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, stationed off Rochefort. He served from March, 1808, until April, 1811, part of the time as Midshipman, in the 74, Capts. Thos. Byam Martin, Philip Pipon, Geo. Chas. Mackenzie, and Geo. Cockburn; during the next 17 months he was employed under the officer last mentioned and Capts. Wm. Shepheard, Joshua Sydney Horton, and Wm. Hanwell, in the 50 and  50, at the defence of Cadiz; he then, in Aug. 1812, joined the  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Cockburn (the latter had been promoted to Flag-rank), lying at Spithead; and in the following month he removed to the  74, Capts. Thos. Browne, Geo. Parker, and Norborne Thompson. In the, under Capt. Martin, he took part, 26 Aug. 1808, in a gallant action of 20 minutes with the Russian 74-gun ship Sewolod, which was completely silenced, and in the end, with the assistance of the 74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood, captured and burnt in sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogerswick, after a total loss to the enemy of 303 men, and to the, individually, of 6 killed and 25 wounded. Under Capt. Cockburn he accompanied, in the same ship, an expedition sent to Quiberon Bay to co-operate with the Baron de Kolli in an attempt to liberate Ferdinand VII. of Spain from his confinement at Valençay. After visiting Cadiz, the escorted two line-of-battle ships, of 120 guns each, to the Havana, and then proceeded to Vera Cruz, whence she returned to Cadiz with 2,000,000 dollars. In the Mr. Ware united, we believe, in the defence of Riga and in the operations of April, 1814, against Genoa. He continued employed in her, as Master’s Mate, until Sept. 1815; and in the course of that month and of the following Dec. he joined, as Admiralty-Midshipman, the 10, Capt. John Gedge, in the North Sea, and  50, Capts. Wm. Skipsey and Edw. Chetham. For his conduct in the latter ship at the bombardnient of Algiers he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 16 Sept. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.

 WARNER. 

died in 1848. He was son, we believe, of the late Henry Lee Warner, Esq., of Walsingham Abbey, co. Norfolk, who assumed the surnames and arms of Lee-Warner, in lieu of his patronymic, Woodward, on inheriting the extensive estates of his cousin, Henry Lee-Warner, Esq., of Walsingham Abbey.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Oct. 1804, on board the 74. He served afterwards in the 64,  74,  36, and  and  74’s; and on 6 Dec. 1813, he was made Lieutenant, we think, into the  50, Capt. Sam. Butcher. His next appointments were, 21 Sept. and 3 Oct. 1815, to the 32 and  42, in the latter of which ships he continued employed, in the manner shown in our, John Brett Purvis, until paid off in July, 1819. He was confirmed a Commander 22 Nov. 1821 (a few months after he had been ordered to act as such) in the 20, on the West India station, whence he returned in 1824. He remained thenceforward on half-pay.

 WARRAND. 

was born 5 Feb. 1775, and died 17 May, 1848, at Brixton, co. Surrey.

This officer (who had been for three years in the Jamaica trade) entered the Navy, in Sept. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Robt. Calder, stationed at first in the Channel and next in the West Indies, where he witnessed the destruction of a French frigate in 1795. After serving with Capt. Theophilus Jones in the 98, and with Lord Garlies in the  32, he joined, towards the close of the year last mentioned, the  100, bearing the flag of the late Earl St. Vincent, under whom we find him employed off Toulon,, and Cadiz (where he saw much boat-service), and, as Signal-Mate, at the defeat of the Spanish fleet 14 Feb. 1797. While on the books of the he was for some time lent, as Acting- Lieutenant, to his former ship the, commanded by Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, and to the 36, Capt. Lord Henry Paulet. In the he contributed to the capture of several privateers and other vessels. He acted subsequently as Lieutenant in the 110, flag-ship of Lord St. Vincent,  74, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, prison-ship at Gibraltar,  74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, 36, Capt. Hugh Downman,  74, Capt. Temple Hardy,  74, Capt. Thos. Troubridge, 38, Capt. Edw. Jas. Foote, and 74, Capt. Thos. Louis. He proved instrumental, in the, to the capture, in Nov. 1798, of the San Leon Spanish man-of-war brig of 16 guns and 88 men. He afterwards commanded the tender off Genoa, and in co-operation with the Austrian troops. In June, 1800, he was present in the at the evacuation of that place by the French; and on 3 Sept. in the same year he was in the foremost of eight boats that boarded and brought out from Barcelona Roads, after having sustained a loss of 3 men killed and 5 wounded, the Spanish corvettes 'Esmeralda' and Paz, of 22 guns each, although defended by a heavy fire from 4 strong batteries, 10 gun-boats, 2 schooners, armed 