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CAMPBELL.  Dacres, bearing the flag in the Channel of his uncle, Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell, with whom he went soon afterwards to the Mediterranean in the 80, and returned to England on board the  32, in Jan. 1805. In April following he joined the 74, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted, one of Sir Rich. John Strachan’s squadron in his victorious conflict of 4 Nov. 1803 with the four line-of-battle ships that had escaped from the battle of Trafalgar. Mr. Campbell, who attained the rating of Midshipman on 19 Dec. in the same year, subsequently, in Jan. 1807, became attached to the, of 42 guns and 281 men, Capt. John Stewart, stationed in the Mediterranean, where we find him, on the night of 5 July, 1808, contributing to the capture, after a memorably furious engagement and a loss to the of 5 men killed and 10 wounded, of the Turkish man-of-war Badere Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were slain and 200 wounded. Another ship, the Alis Fezan, of 26 guns and 230 men, was at the same time put to flight. From April, 1809, to March, 1810, Mr. Campbell was next employed in the 64, and  74, flag-ships in the Downs of Vice- Admiral G. Campbell, and, on 3 Sept. following, he became Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats in the 74, off Cadiz. He received his first Admiralty commission 15 March, 1811; and, as a Lieutenant, was subsequently appointed – 27 June, 1811, to the 20, Capt. John Pasco, on the North American station – 19 Dec. 1811, to the  36, Capt. Rich. Byron, whose official praise he elicited for his able direction of that frigate’s main-deck stern-chasers on the occasion of her celebrated escape from a powerful squadron under Commodore Rodgers, after a long running fight and a loss of 2 men killed and 22 wounded, 23 June, 1812 – 4 Nov. 1813, as Flag-Lieutenant, in the 64, to Vice-Admiral Thos. Foley, Commander-in-Chief in the Downs – and, 19 April, 1814, to the yacht, Capt. Sir John Poo Beresford, in which he conveyed Louis XVIII. to Calais. Having attained the rank of Commander 16 May, 1814, he was next, 5 May, 1818, appointed to the 18, on the Mediterranean station. He acquired a Post-commission 27 Jan. 1821; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Campbell, who is Senior of 1821, formerly sat in Parliament for the counties of Cromartie and Nairn, N.B.; and was appointed, 24 Feb. 1831, Groom of the Chamber to King William IV., in which capacity he officiated at His Majesty’s funeral, 8 July, 1837. He married, 13 Oct. 1821, Charlotte, second daughter of General Isaac Gascoyne, M.P. – Messrs. Stilwell.

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passed his examination 20 May, 1843; and when about to sail for the Cape of Good Hope in the 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, was awarded a commission 15 Jan. 1846. He served for some time with the same officer as Additional-Lieutenant; and, since 19 of the following Aug., has been employed in the steam-sloop, Capt. Alex. Boyle, also on the Cape station.

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entered the Navy, 23 July, 1791, as A.B., on board the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Nathaniel Portlock, with whom we find him visiting Otaheite for the purpose of procuring a supply of bread-fruit, and afterwards proceeding to the West-Indies, where, as Midshipman of the  64, Capt. Chas. Edmund Nugent, and sloop, Capt. Edw. Griffith, he assisted, early in 1794, at the capture of the French islands of Martinique and Ste. Lucie, and the storming of Basseterre, Guadeloupe. From Dec. 1795 to April, 1799, he next served in the 18, Capts. Micajah Malbon and Chas. Lydiard, on the Home station, and under the former witnessed the capture, in March, 1796, of the Dutch 32-gun frigate Zephyr. After an unemployed interval of more than five years, Mr. Campbell joined, in Aug. 1804, the 74, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham, and, on 16 May, 1805, as Master’s Mate, the 74, Capt. Henry Inman, one of Sir Robt. Calder’s fleet in the ensuing action of 22 July. On 31 Aug. 1807, he was promoted to be Lieutenant of the 74, flag-ship in the Downs of Vice-Admiral Geo. Campbell, with whom he continued until Feb. 1809; between which period and the date of his second promotal commission, 6 Dec. 1813, he served for short periods in the Mermaid 32, Capt. Hincker, off Lisbon, 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, off Cherbourg, 80, Capt. Sir John Gore, in Basque Roads,  74, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen, off Flushing, and 100, Capt. Jas. Bissett, lying in Hamoaze. Capt. Campbell’s next appointment was, 4 May, 1827, to the 20, fitting for the Jamaica station, where he was promoted, 21 June, 1828, to Post-rank. He has not since been employed.

His only daughter, Lucy, wife of the Rev. Chas. Hardy, formerly of the R.N., died in 1838. – Messrs. Stilwell.

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(a) passed his examination in 1820; obtained his commission 15 July, 1827; joined the Coast Guard 6 May, 1834; served, from 15 July to 7 Oct. 1836, on board the 36, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, at Portsmouth; and was reappointed to the Coast Guard 22 April, 1842. Since the autumn of 1844 he has been on half-pay.

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(b) entered the Royal Naval College 1 Feb. 1821. He embarked, 21 Dec. 1822, as Midshipman, on board the 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell, on the South American station; removed, in Aug. 1826, to the  18, Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, and, next, to the 78, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, both in the Mediterranean; passed his examination 19 Feb. 1827; and, after an intermediate attachment, as Mate, to the  28, Capt. Lord Hen. John Spencer Churchill, at the Cape of Good Hope, was there appointed, 30 Aug. 1830, Acting-Lieutenant of the 42, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Marsh Schomberg, to which ship he was confirmed by the Admiralty 10 Dec. .1831. Lieut. Campbell, who returned to England in Aug. 1832, subsequently served, from 3 Aug. 1836, until he invalided, 1 April, 1841, on board the 80, Capts. Sam. Jackson and Chas. John Austen, in which we find him serving throughout the whole of the operations on the coast of Syria in 1840, including the bombardments of Beyrout and St. Jean d’Acre. He has since been unemployed. – Messrs. Stilwell.

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(b) entered the Navy in Aug. 1795, as Midshipman, on board the 28, Capt. John Okes Hardy, on the Halifax station, where, after witnessing the capture, 28 Aug. 1796, of l’Elisabeth French frigate, he accompanied the same officer into the  50, and, as Master’s Mate, into the  64. On 6 Oct. 1801, he was promoted into the sloop, Capt. Geo. Burdett, in the Channel, and, on subsequently proceeding with Capt. J. O. Hardy to the West Indies in the 74, assisted at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in June, 1803. Towards the close of the latter year he joined the 22, Capt. Chas. Dashwood, a very active cruizer on the Jamaica station, whence he returned home with convoy, as First, in the frigate, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, early in 1808. After serving four years, first with Lord Keith, and then with Capt. Jas. Macnamara, in the 74, both at home and in the Baltic, where he beheld the embarkation