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1262 conveyed Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle to the Mediterranean. On her arrival she was stationed for a few weeks with the in-shore squadron off Toulon. She then returned to England, bringing with her an Ambassador from the Dey of Algiers. During a subsequent cruize to the westward she captured Le Vice-Amiral Martin, a very notorious privateer, mounting 18 guns with a complement of 140 men. Quitting her in Nov. 1812, Mr. Weale, who had latterly filled the post of First-Lieutenant, was next, in Sept. 1813, appointed, in a similar capacity, to the 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer. In that frigate, in which he continued employed until Sept. 1815, he assisted at the bombardment of Stonington in America, and accompanied, in the summer of the year last mentioned, a highly-successful expedition sent to the Gironde in support of the French King, which terminated in the royal colours being hoisted on the castle of Bordeaux and in the surrounding districts. He served afterwards in the Coast Guard at Kinsale and Oyster Haven, as a chief officer, from 21 Jan. 1821 until 17 March, 1826; and as an Inspecting- Commander at Whitby from 6 July, 1830, until 5 July, 1833. His zealous exertions in the suppression of smuggling during the period he was a chief officer were the cause of his being strongly recommended by the Comptroller-General to the First Lord of the Admiralty. His commission as Commander bears date 25 Oct. 1827.

 WEATHERLEY. 

Was born 26 Aug. 1787. This officer entered the Navy, 7 Aug. 1793, as Midshipman, on board the 64, Capt. Lord Cranstoun; under whom he was for 12 months employed among the Western Islands and on the coast of Ireland. He served next, from July, 1795, until April, 1797, in the Channel and off the port of Cadiz, in the 74, Capt. Jas. Vashon; and in June and Nov. 1802, he joined the 36 and  38, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and Jahleel Brenton. He was in the latter frigate, 2 July, 1803, when she took the ground under the batteries of Cherbourg, and was compelled, despite a fierce and sanguinary resistance, to strike her colours. In consequence of this misfortune he was detained a prisoner of war in France until May, 1814. In the following July he was received on board the 10, Capt. Henry Fyge Jauncey; and, after serving for nearly two years in that vessel in the Channel, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 2 May, 1816. His last appointments afloat were – 8 Dec. 1818, to the acting-command, which he retained until 14 Jan. following, of the store-ship, fitting at Deptford – and, 24 April, 1819, to the  26, Capt. Fairfax Moresby. In the latter ship he was employed, until April, 1821, at the Cape of Good Hope. While in charge, on one occasion, of a tender, he compelled a slave-vessel to run through an intricate channel between the coral-reefs on the Isle of France, where she grounded and was set on fire by her commander, a notorious character. Since 9 May, 1834, Lieut. Weatherley has filled the post of Director of Police in the Dockyard at Pembroke.

He was Harbour-Master at Simons’ Town, Cape of Good Hope, from April, 1821, until May, 1828.

 WEAVER. 

(a) was born in 1795, in Dublin.

This officer entered the Navy, 26 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and Jonas Rose. In that ship, after she had by the most masterly manoeuvres escaped from a French squadron, consisting of five sail of the line, two frigates, and a brig, he joined Lord Nelson’s fleet, in time to participate in the battle of Trafalgar. He was subsequently present in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806; and in the attack upon Copenhagen in Aug. and Sept. 1807. On the being wrecked in the Rio de la Plata, 20 June, 1809, he was received as Midshipman (a rating he had already attained) on board the  80, bearing the flag of Hon, Michael De Courcy on the coast of Brazil, whence he returned in Nov. 1812. In Jan. 1813 he was ordered to join the 98, commanded by his former Captain, Sir Edw. Berry, in the Mediterranean; where, in the following June, being desirous of a more active life than was to be found in a ship of the line, and having applied for an appointment as Acting-Master, he was removed in that capacity to the 16, Capts. Westby Percival and Rowland Mainwaring. While acting subsequently as Master in the 18, Capt. John Toup Nicholas (he had been transferred to that sloop in Feb. 1814), he assisted, and was mentioned for his conduct, at the defeat, 17 June, 1815, off Cape Corse, of the French corvette Légère of 28 guns; which vessel made off at the end of a close and obstinate combat of nearly two hours, attended with a loss to herself of 22 men killed and 79 wounded, and to the British, with damage to their sails and rigging, of 1 man killed and 15 wounded. Having passed his examination for Lieutenant 2 Oct. 1811, he was presented, in Oct. 1815, with a commission dated back to 20 Feb. preceding. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Weaver married, in 1830, Mrs. Priscilla Munchin. – Hallett and Robinson.

 WEAVER. 

(b) was born 11 Oct. 1795.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Sam. Warren, with whom he continued employed (at first under the flag of Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner) off the Texel, in the Baltic, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in the East Indies, North Sea, and Mediterranean, in the same ship, and in the 38 and  74, until Sept. 1814. He belonged to the when her boats, in company with those of a squadron, cut out, off Percola Point, 7 July, 1809, the Russian gun-boats alluded to in ; and he was in the President (after having brought Lucien Buonaparte from Malta to England) at the reduction of Java in 1811. While attached to the latter ship he received the rating of Midshipman. On leaving the, as above, he joined the 32, Capts. Thos. Burton and Rich. Budd Vincent. In her he served for 19 months in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon, part of the time as Master’s Mate. Having passed his examination in Feb. 1815, he was next, in May, 1816, appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the 38, Capts. John Bastard and Arthur Fanshawe, lying in the river Thames; and in the ensuing Aug., having been lent to the bomb, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, he was present at the bombardment of Algiers. He was afterwards, from Oct. 1816, until May, 1823, employed, on the Home station, in the 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, schooner, Lieut.-Commander John Wood Rouse,  50, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, and 74, Capts. Rich. Raggett and Sir Wm. Hoste; and, from May, 1823, until Sept. 1826, in South America, in the 26, Capt. John Macpherson Ferguson, and  82, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling. He has since been on half-pay. His commission bears date 27 March, 1826.

 WEBB. 

died about the commencement of 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 110, Capt. Tristram Robt. Ricketts, successive flag-ship, in the Channel and off Lisbon, of Admirals Lord St. Vincent, Sir Jas. Saumarez, Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and Sir Chas. Cotton. After the Convention of Cintra he removed to the 22, Capts. Hon. Josceline Percy and Matthew Smith, on leaving which vessel we find