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Rh Tarragona in June, 1811, and the destruction, in April, 1814, of a 74-gun ship, three brigs-of-war, and several smaller vessels near Bordeaux), he joined the 74, Capt. John Coode, again on the Mediterranean station, where he continued employed with the latter officer in the  74, under the flag of Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose until May, 1819. He was present in the ship just mentioned at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. In Sept. 1819 he was received on board the  42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, fitting for South America; on his return whence he was transferred, in Sept. 1822, to the  26, Capt. John Lawrence, and sailed for the West Indies; on which station he was made Lieutenant, 16 July, 1823, into the  18, Capt. Jas. Wigston. He left the  in Feb. 1824; and was subsequently appointed – 10 Feb. 1827, for upwards of 12 months, to the  74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, lying at Sheerness – 19 Feb. 1830, to the Coast Blockade, in which he remained for a short period, as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 11 July, 1832, to the  36, Capts. Sir Rich. Grant and Lord John Hay, under whom he was for a few months employed on particular service – 18 July, 1835, to the Coast Guard – 5 April, 1836, as Senior, to the 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Fairfax Moresby, on the Lisbon station, whence he returned in the summer of 1837 – 10 Dec. 1839 and 1 Oct. 1840, to the 120, and, as First, to the  104, flag-ships of Sir Henry Digby and Sir Edw. Brace at Sheerness – and 7 Jan. 1843, in the capacity last named (after about a year’s half-pay), to the steam surveying-vessel, Capt. Fred. Bullock. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 25 Sept. in the latter year, he has not been afloat. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 WELLESLEY. 

passed his examination in 1834; obtained his first commission 22 April, 1838; and was appointed – 21 Jan. 1839, as Additional Lieutenant, to the 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean – 30 March following, to the 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, on the same station – and 17 Nov. 1841, to the 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, fitting for the East Indies. In the, of which ship he became ultimately First-Lieutenant, he took part in 1840 in the operations on the coast of Syria, including the attacks upon Caiffa, Jaffa, Tsour, and St. Jean d’Acre. Previously to the bombardment of Caiffa he ably assisted in placing an Ottoman frigate in the position she was to occupy; he afterwards landed and aided, in full view of 500 of the Egyptian army, in throwing into the sea the 5 guns of a castle which commanded the town. In command of the guard-boats stationed at the pass of Narcourra, halfway to Acre, for the purpose of distributing arms to the mountaineers, he captured 2 officers and 43 men. While serving in the East Indies in the, Mr. Wellesley was made Commander, 16 April, 1842, into the 16. Soon after the paying off of that vessel he was advanced, 2 Dec. 1844, to his present rank. – Hallett and Robinson.

 WELLINGTON. 

was born in July, 1813, at Hay Castle, Brecknockshire.

This officer entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1825, on board the 76, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, whom he followed into the 46 and  52, all flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, on the East India station, whence he returned to England in the 28, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous. He served afterwards in the Mediterranean and West Indies, again in the, under Sir John Franklin, and in the 42, Capt. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell, and  50 and  52, flag-ships of Sir Geo. Cockburn. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 12 Aug. 1834; and was subsequently appointed – 4 Sept. 1834 and 12 Dec. 1835, to the 16 and  surveying-vessel, Capts. Jas. Hope and Rich Owen, both in the West Indies – in Dec. 1836, as First, to the 16, Capt. John Balfour Maxwell, on the same station – in 1837, for a passage home, to the  42, Capt. Chas. Burrough Strong – 2 March, 1833, again as Senior, to the 18, Capts. Jas. Wilkinson and Hon. Chas. Gilbert John Brydone Elliott, under the latter of whom he assisted at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – and 20 Oct. 1841, to the 110, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen. In honour of Her Majesty’s visit to the latter ship when lying at Spithead, on the eve of her departure for the Mediterranean, he was advanced to the rank of Commander 7 March, 1842. He has since been on half-pay.

Commander Wellington married 10 Oct. 1843. – Messrs. Chard.

 WELLS. 

was born 17 April, 1774, in Aberdeenshire.

This officer entered the Navy, 16 Nov. 1795, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Rich. Grindall, lying at Plymouth. Removing with Capt. Grindall, in Feb. 1796, to the 74, commanded next by Capt. Geo. Murray, he fought in that ship in the action off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797, and served in her boats, in the course of the same year, in several attacks upon the Cadiz flotilla. The being wrecked, 10 Dec. 1798, on a ledge of rocks in St. Mary’s Road, Scilly, Mr. Wells, who had already attained the rating of Midshipman, rejoined Capt. Murray shortly afterwards on board the  74. In that ship, and in the 74 (part of the fleet engaged under Lord Nelson at the battle of Copenhagen 2 April, 1801) and the  98, he continued employed with the same Captain on the Channel and Baltic stations, latterly in the capacity of Master’s Mate, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 April, 1802. He was subsequently appointed, in succession – 11 May, 1802, to the 16, Capts. Burrowes, Bass, Stevenson, and Bateman, in which vessel he cruized in the Channel, united in Admiral Gambier’s attack upon Copenhagen in 1807, and went with convoy to the Mediterranean – 30 May, 1808, to the bomb, Capt. Cunningham, stationed in the Baltic – 8 Feb. 1809, to the  36, Capt. Cottrell, employed in the North Sea and West Indies – and, 4 May, 1812, to the  38, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth, on the coast of North America, whence he invalided 19 Oct. 1813. In 1809 he commanded the boats of the at the capture of a Russian fort on the coast of Lapland, and of several vessels reposing under its protection. He accepted his present rank 25 March, 1834; and was admitted to the Out-Pension of Greenwich Hospital 26 Oct. 1848. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 WELLS. 

entered the Navy 28 Dec. 1811; passed his examination in 1819; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 3 July, 1829. He served, from 4 of the latter month until the spring of 1831, in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; was employed next, from 13 May, 1833, until April, 1836, in the 110 and  104, flag-ships of Sir Wm. Hargood at Plymouth; and has been in charge, since 4 Oct. 1839, of a station in the Coast Guard.

Lieut. Wells is married, and has issue.

