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Rh these, as well as the captives, he distributed, with a degree of humanity that did him credit, but for which he never obtained the least compensation, the linen, the wine, and all the necessaries he had. Notwithstanding that it had been arranged that he was to carry home the despatches relative to the victory, he had the mortification, instead, of being sent with the duplicates of them to Faro; whereby he lost both the promotion and the handsome donation that must otherwise have fallen to his lot. All the reward he got, indeed, for his services at Trafalgar, was a sword valued at 100 guineas from the Patriotic Society. He was afterwards, for nearly two years, attached to the blockading force off Brest, and was often during that period within range at once of four batteries. From the effects at length of ill health, produced by fatigue and disappointment, he was obliged, in Dec. 1807, to leave the. On being subsequently appointed First-Lieutenant of the he accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren. While there he served with the flat-bottomed boats, and was the senior officer of his rank so employed. During the time he belonged to the Princess Caroline he was stationed, for the protection of trade, in the Gulf of Finland. On the occasion of the jubilee he was promoted at last to the rank of Commander 21 Oct. 1810; but his efforts thenceforward to procure employment, although incessant, were unavailing.

Commander Young was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 20 April, 1839. He married, 10 March, 1810, Mary, daughter of Capt. Ellis, of the Army, and has left issue two sons and two daughters. – Joseph Woodhead.

 YOUNG. 

was born 12 Nov. 1794.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Nov. 1808, on board the shore-ship, Master-Commanders S. P. Pritchard and Edm. Ives; with whom he continued employed as Clerk and Midshipman until Feb. 1817; visiting during that period New Holland, the East and West Indies, and the North Sea. In May, 1809, while at Sydney Cove, he was wounded in the arm in endeavouring to extinguish a fire which had broken out on board the ship. From Aug. 1818 until he invalided, in July, 1820, he served as Second-Master in the 20, Capts. Andrew Mitchell and Jodrell Leigh, in the West Indies; in the following Sept. he was appointed, in a similar capacity, to the 42, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Geo. Ralph Collier on the coast of Africa; and in June, 1821, he was there nominated Acting-Master of the 20, Capt. Henry John Leeke. On; 15 April, 1822, he piloted the boats of the latter ship and of the 42 into the river Bonny, and assisted at the capture of five vessels, measuring in the whole 877 tons, and carrying altogether 36 guns, 164 men, and 1532 slaves. He boarded and took possession, on that occasion, of La Vigilante, a French brig of 4 guns and 31 men; and he brought out the Yacnam, a Spanish schooner, of 16 guns and 46 men. He continued employed, still on the coast of Africa, in the 42, Commodore Sir Robt. Mends, brig,  sloop, Capt. Geo. Woollcombe, 42, Commodore Chas. Bullen, again in the (as Acting-Lieutenant), and in the  20, Capt. Wm. Jardine Purchas, until a few weeks after his official promotion, which took place 15 March, 1826. He then came home an invalid in the 18, Capt. Robt. White Parsons. Since 2 Aug. 1833 he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.

Lieut. Young married, 18 May, 1835, and has issue five children.

 YOUNG. 

was born 5 June, 1767, and died 27 Feb. 1846 at Gosport.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1782, as Ordinary, on board the 74, Capts. Robt. Kingsmill and Sir Roger Curtis, in which ship he was for four years employed in the East Indies and at Portsmouth – the greater part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. After serving for a similar period on the West India and Home stations in the 14, Capt. Percy Brett, and  74, Capts. Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley and Rich. Onslow, he joined in succession the and s[c] 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Albemarle Bertie. In the latter ship, of which he was created a Lieutenant 18 April, 1794, he was slightly wounded in the knee in Lord Howe’s action, and was present in the action under Lord Bridport off the Ile de Groix. His subsequent appointments were – 24 Feb. 1796, to the 98, Capts. Sir Geo. Home and Jas. Brine – 16 Aug. 1798, to the 74, Capts. A. Bertie and Geo. Hopewell Stephens – 14 and 21 Oct. 1799, to the and  98’s, flag-ships of Admirals Collingwood and Sir Andrew Mitchell – 1 June, 1801, for 10 months, to the  80, Capt. A. Bertie – 12 March, 1803, to the Rendezvous Service at Bristol – 8 Sept. 1804, to the  74, Capts. Edw. Griffith and Matthew Henry Scott – and 13 Aug. 1810 (the had been paid off in Dec. 1803), to the  36, as Flag-Lieutenant to the late Sir Edw. Thornbrough at Cork. In the, , , , , , and , he was employed on Home service: in the , after enacting the part of First-Lieutenant in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, he proceeded to the West Indies and North America. We may add that on one occasion, 13 Dec. 1806, he was the means of extricating the ship last mentioned from a very critical situation. About three months after he had left the he was promoted, 24 Nov. 1813, to the rank of Commander. He did not again go afloat. During the war he saw much boat-service.

Commander Young married 12 Feb. 1801. – Case and Loudonsack.

 YOUNG. 

was born, 27 Aug. 1761, at Borrowstoness, N.B., and died, 11 Feb. 1847, at Denmark Hill, Camberwell, co. Surrey. He was second son of David Young, Esq., whose nephew, Wm. Young, Lieut.-Governor of Dominica (ancestor of the present Sir Wm. Norris Young, of Marlow Park, co. Bucks), was created a Baronet 3 May, 1769; and he was the ninth, in direct male descent, from Sir John Young, Kt., of Leny, N.B, who accompanied Mary Queen of Scots from France to Scotland, as Chamberlain, in 1561. The estates of the latter gentleman were enjoyed by his descendants until 1715, when they were confiscated, in consequence of David Young, who had succeeded to the representation of the family, having taken part in the movement made in favour of Charles Stuart.

This officer entered the Navy, 16 May, 1777, as A.B., on board the 50, Capt. Thos. Dumaresq, hearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Jas. Young in the Leeward Islands, where he soon attained the rating of Midshipman, and contributed to the capture, while serving in the tender, under the orders of Mr. Geo. Fred. Ryves, of upwards of 50 vessels, some of which were privateers of superior force. In May, 1779, after he had been for a brief period attached to the 74, commanded at Chatham by Capt. Hugh Dalrymple, he rejoined Capt. Dumaresq, as Master’s Mate, on board the  armée en flûte, employed on the Home and West India stations. Being eventually, 5 Feb. 1781, promoted, from the 64, flag-ship at Jamaica of Sir Peter Parker, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the  50, he continued to serve in that ship, and in the, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Joshua Rowley, and  32, Capts. Hon. Thos. Windsor, Robt. Montagu, and Geo. Stoney, until confirmed by commission dated 3 July, 1783. While in the latter frigate he was sent to Jamaica in charge of a Spanish privateer, one of