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BREWER—BRICE—BRICKDALE—BRICKWELL—BRIDGE. This officer entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Robt. Williams, employed off Weymouth; removed in Feb. 1803, with the same officer, to the 74, in which ship he accompanied the outward-bound trade to the East Indies; and was there successively transferred, in June, 1805, to the  74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, and, in Oct. 1807, to the  36, Capts. Christ. Cole and Wm. Jones Lye. While in the latter ship he passed his examination 13 Jan. 1809; was invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant 23 April, 1810; and, shortly after his official promotion, which took place 29 Oct. following, was sent, in command of a detachment of seamen, to co-operate with the land forces at the reduction of the Isle of France. Lieut. Brett, who further assisted, under Capt. Lye, at the capture of Java, in Aug. 1811, was subsequently appointed – 6 March, 1813, to the 74, Capt. Sir C. Cole, on the Channel station – 16 Sept. 1814, and 23 March, 1815, to the  and  98’s, flag-ships at Plymouth of Sir Wm. Domett and Sir John Thos. Duckworth – and, 8 June, 1816, after nine months of half-pay, to the 28, Capt. John Harper, attached to the squadron in North America. He was paid off in Dec. 1818, and has not since been employed.

Lieut. Brett married, 22 June, 1824, Miss Mary Ann Street, by whom he has issue five sons and two daughters. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 BREWER. 

entered the Navy, 21 July, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett, with whom he continued to serve, latterly as Midshipman, in the 80, and  74, on the North Sea, Baltic, and Halifax stations, until Aug. 1815. He next became attached to the 100, Capt. Edm. Bodger, at Portsmouth, and and, of 46 guns each, Capt. Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, on the western coast of Africa; served from Oct. 1818 to Nov. 1822, again with Capt. Raggett, as Mate, in the 74, at Portsmouth; passed his examination 4 Aug. 1819; and, after a further employment, in the latter capacity, in the  28, Capt. Peter Fisher, on the North America and West India station,  20, Capt. Wm. Jardine Purchas, on the western coast of Africa, and 120, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorson, at Chatham, was promoted to his present rank 30 April, 1827. Since 22 Dec. 1828, except from 26 March, 1839, to 21 March, 1844, when he commanded the Revenue cutter, Lieut. Brewer has been in the Coast Guard.

He married, 12 Feb. 1833, Miss Mitchinson, and by that lady he has issue. – Messrs. Hallett and Robinson.

 BRICE. 

was born 8 Sept. 1787.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 June, 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Wm. Grenville Lobb, on the Jamaica station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 27 June, 1800. He afterwards served, in the Channel, with the same officer, in the 98, and  50; with Capt. Wm. Cumming in the 98; with Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin in the 38; and, with Capt. Geo. Cockburn in the 74. Shortly after his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 15 Aug. 1806, Mr. Brice obtained command of the schooner of 2 guns, in which vessel in Jan. 1807, he was unfortunately captured by a Spanish row-boat. Being, however, quickly retaken by the frigate, he joined, on 18 of the succeeding Aug., the  74, Capt. Robt. Barton, in the West Indies; and was subsequently appointed – 4 Feb. 1808, to the 18, Capts. W. Ward, Isaac Hawkins Morrison, and Edw. Henry A’Court, under the first of whom he assisted in taking the island of Deseada on 30 March in the same year – 3 June, 1810, to the 28 – 29 Jan. 1811, to the  18, Capt. Symonds, stationed in the North Sea and off the coast of Africa – and, 14 Oct. 1813, to the  36, Capt. G. Heathcote, on Channel service. He continued unemployed from April, 1815; and was placed on the list of Retired Commanders 21 April, 1840.

 BRICKDALE. 

was born 30 July, 1819, at Upcott House, near Taunton, Somersetshire, and died, as below recorded, 20 Nov. 1845. He was second son of John Fortescue Brickdale, Esq., barrister-at-law, of Birchamp House, co. Gloucester, by Catherine, daughter of Chas. Gregorie, Esq.; and elder brother of John Fortescue Brickdale, Esq., Lieutenant in the 61st Foot.

This officer entered the Navy, 16 July, 1831, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. Price Blackwood, on the East India station, and was Midshipman of that frigate when, in company with the 28, she forced the passage of the Boca Tigris, in China, 7 and 9 Sept. 1834. He next served, from Sept. 1835, to May, 1840, in the 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, in the Mediterranean; and, after a further attachment to the  gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, obtained, as a reward for passing the best examination at the Royal Naval College, a Lieutenant’s commission, 24 June, 1842. He was appointed, 1 July following, to the 44, Capt. John Foote, on the west coast of Africa, whence he returned home and was paid off in Aug. 1844; and he lastly joined, in the course of 1845, the  72, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, and the 18, Capt. Edw. Augustus Inglefield. He fell on 20 Nov., in a gallant attack made by the combined squadrons of England and France on a strong position occupied by the troops of General Rosas at Punta Obligado, on the banks of the Parana. – Messrs. Chard.

 BRICKWELL. 

entered lie Navy 16 Sept. 1828; passed his examination 18 July, 1835; served for some time on the Mediterranean station, as Mate, in the 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, and steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin; obtained his commission 23 Nov. 1841; and, from 2 Nov. 1842, until paid off in Aug. 1844, was employed in the 44, Capt. John Foote, on the western coast of Africa. He has been First, since 18 Nov. 1846, of the 16, Capt. Arthur Farquhar. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 BRIDGE. 

entered the Navy 22 March, 1823; passed his examination 20 Nov. 1830; became, in 1839, a student at the Royal Naval College; and was promoted (from the 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, fitting for the Mediterranean) to the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1841. His appointments have since been – 6 May following, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 17 Aug. in the same year, to the 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Sir Edw. Durnford King, from which he was paid off in Dec. 1842 – 19 Oct. 1843, to the steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Thos. Gordon, with whom he served as First-Lieutenant in the Pacific – 30 May, 1845, as Additional, to the 104, Capt. Peter Richards, lying at Portsmouth – and, 14 July, 1845, to the  80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, now attached to the Channel squadron.

Lieut. Bridge married, 6 June, 1841, Anne, only daughter of the late E. K. Piercy, Esq., of Passage West, co. Cork, and by that lady has issue.

