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1272 again go afloat until Jan. 1807; on 21 of which month he obtained command of the 74. In her, while co-operating in 1808 with the Spaniards on the coast of Catalonia, he rendered important service to the patriot cause; and in particular by the manner in which, with the bomb under his orders, he contributed to the defence of the citadel of Rosas when besieged by about 5000 French troops. On 8 Nov., having landed at the latter place, Capt. West, observing that the enemy were hard pressing a body of Miguelets, made a sortie from the citadel at the head of 250 of the ’s seamen and marines, for the purpose of rescuing them. This he succeeded in accomplishing; but not until several of his men had been wounded and his own horse shot under him. On being relieved, 21 Nov., by the 74, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett, the proceeded off Toulon, and was next ordered to the Adriatic. In Dec. 1809 Capt. West removed to the 74; which ship he continued to command on the Mediterranean, Home, and West India stations, until March, 1814. He became a Rear-Admiral 12 Aug. 1819, a Vice-Admiral 22 July, 1830, and a full Admiral 23 Nov. 1841. He was nominated a K.C.B. 4 July, 1840; and from 15 April, 1845, until April, 1848, he commanded in chief at Devonport, with his flag in the 110.

Sir John West married, in May, 1817, Harriett, daughter of John Adams, Esq., of co. Northampton, by whom he has issue three sons and two daughters. His eldest son, John Temple, is a Captain in the Grenadier Guards; his second,, a Commander R.N.; and his youngest, Frederick, an officer in the Army.

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entered the Navy 1 June, 1807, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, lying at Portsmouth, and sailed, towards the close of the same year, in the, Capt. Geo. Davies, for the East Indies, where he became Midshipman, in May, 1808, and July, 1811, of the 38, Capt. Chas. Foote, and 36, Capt. Jas. Bawen. While attached to the, of which frigate he was for 14 months Master’s Mate, he was employed on shore in 1808 in co-operation with the army at Quilon on the coast of Malabar, and was twice wounded in cutting out gun-boats from Bantam, in the island of Java. In 1809 he was present in an attack upon a body of Malay pirates; and at the celebrated capture, in Aug. 1810, of the island of Banda Neira, he was one of those who escaladed the walls of the castle of Belgria. In 1811 he assisted at the capture of Palambang and Sambas. Returning to England in 1813 in the frigate, Capt. Barrington Reynolds, he joined, in the spring of 1814, the  50, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, and bomb and  36, Capts. Sam. Roberts and Wm. Mounsey – the two last on the coast of North America; where, after having accompanied an expedition to Penobscot Bay, he was made Lieutenant, 6 July, 1814, into the 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr. That ship however he never joined. He was employed next, between Oct. 1814 and Sept. 1815, in the 18, Capt. Thos. Sykes (under whom he was wrecked on his passage from St. John’s, New Brunswick, to Halifax 24 Nov. 1814) 74, Capt. Farmery Predam Epworth,  again, Capt. Mounsey, and  20, Capt. Thos. Whinyates. His succeeding appointments were – 12 June, 1824, to the 18, Capt. Fras. Fead, in which vessel, after cruizing with an experimental squadron, he proceeded to the West Indies, whence he returned, we believe, in 1825 – 18 May, 1827, as First-Lieutenant, for upwards of three years, to the 20, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, at the Cape of Good Hope – 4 June, 1834, to the command, which he retained until the summer of 1836, of the  steamer, on the Home and Mediterranean stations – and, 14 May, 1838, to the command of the, another steamer. In the latter vessel, which he paid off in the early part of 1841, but recommissioned 23 Aug. following, he was employed on the North America and West India stations. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841; and as such he served in the steam-sloop of 240 horse-power, on the coast of Africa, from 11 June, 1845, until paid off in the spring of 1847.

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entered the Navy, 16 Oct. 1797, as A.B., on board the sloop, Capt. Geo. Irwin, in which vessel, and, as Midshipman, in the, Capt. Geo. Tobin, he continued employed on the coast of North America and West Indies until Jan. 1801. He joined next, in Nov. 1803, in the capacity of Master’s Mate, the 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves in the Channel; where, again in the West Indies, as also on the coasts of Spain and Portugal and in the North Sea, he served as Master, from 16 May, 1804, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 11 April, 1810, in the sloop, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, 38, Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin, frigate, Capt. Fred. Langford, 32, Capt. John Ayscough,  74, Capt. T. Le M. Gosselin, and  74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Strachan. In the ship last mentionen, to which, on the occasion of his promotion, he was re-appointed, he took part in the operations connected with the expedition to the Walcheren. He finally left her in June, 1811. He was next, until Nov. 1814, employed, on the Home, Baltic, and Cape of Good Hope stations, in the 74, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, 74, Capt. Henry Raper,  bomb, Capt. Thos. Alexander, 110 and  98, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, and  sloop, Capt. Chas. Hawkey. From April, 1815, until May, 1816, he was engaged in raising seamen at Hull; and from 1817 until 1819 he was stationed on the coast of South America in the 24, Capt. Fred. Hickey. He has since been on half-pay.

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entered the Navy, 27 March, 1803, as a Volunteer, on board the 74, Capts. John Irwin, Robt. Hall, and Chas. Wm. Paterson; in which ship and her tenders he was for eight years and nine months employed at Spithead and off Guernsey. He served next, from Dec. 1811 until Sept. 1815, as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Nov. 1804) and as Master’s Mate and Acting-Master in the sloop, Capts. Wm. Westcott Daniel and John Knatchbull, on the Home, Lisbon, African, West India, and North American stations; and in Nov. 1815, at which period he had been for a few weeks Admiralty-Midshipman of the 18, Capts. Henry Edw. Napier and Geo. Bennet Allen, he was presented with a commission bearing date 6 July preceding. His succeeding appointments were – 20 March, 1822, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 50 and  74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot, until 1827 – 21 July, 1828, to the 76, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, employed on the Home, Mediterranean, Cork, and Lisbon stations – and 20 July, 1831, to the charge, which he retained until advanced to his present rank 1 Jan. 1839, of a station in the Coast Guard. He served again in the Coast Guard, as an Inspecting-Commander, from 5 Nov. 1839 until the early part of 1845.

Commander Westbrook is Senior of 1839. – Fred. Dufaur.

