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CAREW—CAREY —CARLETON. with the British army in Egypt, and subsequently in the East Indies, where he rendered the most effective assistance in quelling the fire which, in Feb. 1803, nearly consumed the city of Bombay. After an employment of twelve months in the Firth of Tay District of Sea Fencibles, Capt. Garden assumed command, 21 Dec. 1804, of the brig, from which vessel, after intermediately serving in the North Sea, creditably at the blockade of Cadiz, and in the Mediterranean, he was advanced, 22 Jan. 1806, to Post-rank. His subsequent appointments afloat were – 15 Aug. 1808, to the 110, one of the ships employed in embarking the troops after the battle of Corunna, on which occasion his exertions were unremitting – 11 April, 1809, to the  98, in which he returned to England – 9 June, 1810, to the  74, stationed in the Baltic and off Lisbon – and, 5 April, 1811, to the  of 48 guns, giving 528 lbs. in broadside weight of metal, and 254 men. On 25 Oct. 1812, he brought to close action, and – after a glorious resistance of two hours and ten minutes, which reduced the to a helpless wreck, and occasioned her a loss of 36 men lulled and 68 wounded – was taken by the American ship United States of 56 guns, yielding a broadside weight of 864 lbs., and 474 men, of whom the killed and severely wounded do not appear to have exceeded the united amount of 12. Capt. Garden, who, we should state, had previously been in frequent and very warm collision with the batteries on the coast of France, was afterwards, on 31 May, 1813, most honourably acquitted, by a court-martial which had assembled at Bermuda, of all blame in the unavoidable surrender of his frigate, and was, together with the whole of his officers and ship’s company, extolled in the highest manner “for his firm and most determined courage, resolution, and coolness, in every instance throughout the action.” His valour and heroism became the universal theme: Parliament soon resounded with his praises; and, among other marks of respect, he was honoured with the freedom of the cities of Worcester and Gloucester, and of the borough of Tewkesbury. Capt. Garden was lastly, in 1825, appointed to command the Ordinary at Sheerness; and, on 17 Aug. 1840, he was made a Rear-Admiral. He is at present on half-pay. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 CAREW, formerly. 

is eldest son of the late Admiral of the Blue Sir Benj. Hallowell Carew, G.C.B., K.F.M. (who brought home the despatches announcing the victory off Cape St. Vincent, afterwards commanded with so much gallantry the 74, at the Nile, and died 2 Sept. 1834, aged 74), by the daughter of the late Commissioner, and sister of the present Rear-Admiral, Inglefield. Capt. Carew assumed his present surname in addition to his patronymic, Hallowell, on his father’s inheriting, in 1828, the estates of the opulent Mrs. Carew.

This officer obtained his first commission 30 Aug. 1820; afterwards served in the 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father, at Chatham; was promoted to the rank of Commander 3 Aug. 1824; joined, 8 April, 1826, the  sloop, on the Plymouth station; and attained Post-rank 17, April, 1827. He has not since been employed.

Capt. Carew married, 12 June, 1828, Mary, daughter of the late Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell, R.N., C.B. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 CAREW. 

entered the Navy, 1 July, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Wm. Cuming, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope; and attained the rating of Midshipman 6 May following. He soon afterwards joined the 64, Gapt. Joshua Rowley Watson, one of the ships employed in the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; removed, in Jan. 1808, to 18, Capt. Chas. Kempthorne Quash, in the Channel; served next, from May in the latter year until Nov. 1812, in the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, on the Home and Mediterranean stations; and was subsequently employed, from 21 April, 1813, until 17 May, 1814, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the  and  74’s, both flag-ships of Rear-Admiral Geo. Cockburn on the coast of North America. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the 20, Capt. Nathaniel Mitchell, on the West India station; and on 19 of the following July was officially promoted. Mr. Carew has not been afloat since the paying-off of the Florida in 1815.

 CAREY. 

, born 6 March, 1797, is son of Rich. Carey, Esq., of Newmarket, co. Suffolk.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 March, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 44, Capts. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker and Wm. Fothergill, employed in conveying troops and provisions to Lisbon, and afterwards as flag-ship in the Channel of Admiral D’Auvergne. In Sept. 1812, he rejoined Capt. Baker in the 74, and, after serving for some time at the blockade of the Texel and of Cherbourg, and escorting a convoy to the Cape, removed, in April, 1815, to the  104, bearing the flag of Sir Josias Rowley at Naples during the hostilities that followed Buonaparte’s escape from Elba. Between Oct. 1815, and Aug. 1825, Mr. Carey served, chiefly on the Mediterranean, Home, and North and South American stations, in the 38, Capt. Phipps Hornby,  44, and  38, both commanded by Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon (in the latter of which he was nearly wrecked in Yarmouth Roads 19 Dec. 1816), 74, Capt. Jas. Walker, 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, 26, and  42, each commanded by Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, 120, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell, surveying-vessel, Lieut.Commander Wm. Hewett, and 74, Capt. Sir Graham Eden Hamond. While in the we find him employed, during the years 1820-1 and 2, in protecting the British fisheries in South America, and in escorting Earl Spencer and Sir Geo. Naylor to Copenhagen for the purpose of conferring the Order of the Garter on the King of Denmark. Pending his attachment to the he took over the present Lord Stuart de Rothesay, as ambassador, to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, and was on board at the grand entertainment given by his Excellency to the King and court at the former place. On 24 Aug. 1825, Mr. Carey, who had passed his examination 3 July, 1816, was appointed Admiralty-Mate of the 76, flag-ship off Lisbon of Lord Amelius Beauclerk; and, on 6 Nov. 1827, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the  10, Capt. Christopher Wyvill, on the Mediterranean station, where he was confirmed in the  50, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, 8 March, 1828. After nearly two years of half-pay he joined, 19 March, 1830, the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and, on 4 April, 1831, he was transferred to the command of the Coast Guard station at Weymouth, where he has been ever since employed, and has rendered services of a very sterling character.

Lieut. Carey married, 22 Jan. 1829, Alice Mary, second daughter of the late Thos. Atkinson, Esq., for many years Chief Master-Attendant of Portsmouth Dockyard, and sister of Lieuts. Horatio Nelson and By that lady he has one son, Richard, a Midshipman, R.N.

 CARLETON. 

is son of the late General Carleton.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 April, 1804, as