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BRADLY—BRADSHAW—BRADY—BRAKE.  conflict of more than an hour’s continuance, during which the British sustained a loss of 30 killed and 60 wounded, and the enemy of nearly 300 killed and wounded. He remained in the Maks, under Rear-Admirals Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley and Edw. Thornbrough, until April, 1802; became next, in June, 1803, Midshipman of the Grampus 50, Capt. R. Caulfield, in which ship he proceeded with convoy to the East Indies; served on that station, under Lord Geo. Stuart and various other Captains, in the and, until March, 1808; and, after an attachment of a few months in the early part of 1809 to the  and , bearing the flags at Spithead and in the Mediterranean of Vice-Admirals Courtenay and Lord Collingwood, was appointed, on 14 June in that year, Acting-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse. On the night of 31 Oct. following we find him employed in the boats of the latter ship with those of a squadron at the capture and destruction, in the Bay of Rosas – despite a fierce opposition from the crews and a galling fire from the batteries, inflictive on the British of a loss of 15 men killed and 55 wounded – of the armed store-ship Lamproie, of 16 guns and 116 men, with three other armed and seven merchant vessels. He soon afterwards removed to the 120, Capt. Neve; was confirmed a Lieutenant 12 July, 1810; and, after nearly a year of half-pay, joined, 1 Aug. 1811, the  74, in which he assisted at the capture, on 27 Nov., of La Corceyre French frigate, of 38 guns and 170 men. He invalided 13 May, 1812, and has not since been employed.

 BRADLY. 

entered the Navy 2 Jan. 1828; passed his examination in 1834; obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838; and was appointed to the 84, Commodore Chas. Napier, on the Mediterranean station, 1 Jan. 1839. He was the companion and aide-de-camp of that gallant officer throughout all the operations on the coast of Syria in 1840, where, besides assisting at the bombardment of Beyrout, the storming of Sidon, and capture of St. Jean d’Acre, he “showed a noble example” in the attack on the Egyptian troops at Kelbaon, and was “forward on all occasions.” He was promoted, in consequence, to his present rank 1 Jan. 1841; and, from 8 April, 1843, until 1846, was next employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay.

Commander Bradly is Senior of 1841. He married, 25 July, 1843, Elizabeth, third daughter of Rich. Tomson, Esq., of the Elms, Hamsgate, and has issue. – Goode and Lawrence.

 BRADSHAW. 

, born in 1800 at Kinsale, is only son of General Bradshaw, K.C., late of the 1st Life Guards.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 Dec. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, stationed off the Texel; was transferred with the same officer, in May, 1812, to the  98; and, on subsequently proceeding to the Mediterranean, witnessed, as Midshipman, the reduction of Genoa in April, 1814. He next cruized for 12 months, in the 38, Capt. Jas. Rich. Dacres, off the coast of Ireland; served, from Sept. 1815, to Dec. 1818, in the 50,  50, and  36, flag-ships on the Jamaica station of Rear-Admiral J. E. Douglas; passed his examination in January of the latter year; and, after an attachment of more than three years, as Mate, to the  18, Capt. Chas. Grenville Randolph, off Dublin and Belfast, was made Lieutenant, 19 July, 1822, into the 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly, with whom he served, as Senior, on the Halifax station, until May, 1824. His subsequent appointments were – 13 Feb. 1825, to the 36, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, in which frigate we find him employed on the coast of South America until April, 1829 – 1 May, 1833, and 5 Sept. 1835, to the  and  first-rates, bearing the flags of Sir Wm. Hargood and Lord Amelius Beauclerk at Plymouth, where he continued, serving as First-Lieutenant in succession to both those Admirals, until Aug. 1836 – and, 7 July, 1838, also as First-Lieutenant, to the 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, from which ship, after participating in the operations on the coast of Syria in 1840, and assisting at the blockade of Alexandria, he was paid off in May, 1841. He was promoted to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841, and has not since been employed.

Commander Bradshaw married, first, in Feb. 1830, Decima, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Tomkyns, of Bucknell Park, co. Hereford; and secondly, in 1834, Augusta Julia, only daughter of the late Obadiah Newell, Esq., Lieut. R.N. (1781), of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, who died 1 Feb. 1837, aged 73.

 BRADY. 

entered the Navy, 6 Dec. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Sir Jas. Dunbar, on the Mediterranean station, where he joined, in Nov. 1808, the 74, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse. On 26 Oct. 1809, he witnessed, as Midshipman, the self-destruction of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion, near Frontignan; and, on the night of 31 of the same month, he was slightly wounded while serving in the boats at the capture and destruction – under a hot fire from the batteries in the Bay of Rosas, and in face of a resistance from the various crews productive of a loss to the British of 15 men killed and 55 wounded – of the store-ship Lamproie, of 16 guns and 116 men, with three other armed vessels, and seven sail of merchantmen. He continued to be very actively employed in the, under the command of Capt. Thos. Baker, in the North Sea and in escorting valuable convoys to the West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope, until paid off in Aug. 1815 – a few months previous to which period, on 20 March, he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, He afterwards, from 10 June, 1824, until 1827, served on the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot; and, since 10 June, 1842, has been employed as Admiralty Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel on the West India station. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 BRAKE. 

was born, 24 July, 1787, at Plymouth.

This officer entered the Navy, in the summer of 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the, Capt. Fras. Pickmore, flag-ship of Sir Peter Parker, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, in which ship he had the misfortune to be very severely injured by a block falling from the mast-head and fracturing his skull. He was in the same ship at the period of the Spithead mutiny, in April, 1797, and was afterwards, until the peace, employed in her tender, the schooner, Lieut.-Commander Matt. Bowles Alt. At the re-commencement of hostilities, in 1803, Mr. Brake joined the 44, Capt. John Nash, under whom he assisted as Midshipman at the reduction of the Dutch colony of Surinam in May, 1804. Removing then to the 74, Capts. Fras. Pickmore and Robt. Yarker, he served as Signal-Mate at the capture of Linois’ squadron in 1806, and of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Santa Croix in Dec. 1807. From Nov. 1808 about which period he passed his examination, until officially promoted, 2 Nov. 1810, he appears to have