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CHARLTON—CHASMAN—CHAVE—CHEERE. Africa until Aug. 1833. Having passed his examination 2 Oct. in that year, he became attached, in Feb. 1834, as Mate, to the steam-vessel, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, employed on Channel service, and, in Oct. 1834, joined, as Acting-Lieutenant of the steam-vessel, the expedition under Col. Chesney, then preparing for its explorative mission to the celebrated river of that name. Throughout the various details of that arduous undertaking, which only brought itself to an issue in the spring of 1837, Mr. Charlewood repeatedly acquired official praise, but more especially for his active co-operation in the laborious task of originally transporting the, and the , another steam-vessel, from the vicinity of Antioch overland to the town of Bir, a tract of 140 miles, almost impassable for the want of roads; as well as for his subsequent exertions in saving the , when her consort the foundered in a typhoon. On his return to England he joined, in July, 1837, the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, of which we find him appointed a Lieutenant 26 Jan. 1838, exactly a week after his promotion to that rank. Removing, 25 April, 1839, to the 72, Capt. Houston Stewart, Mr. Charlewood sailed for the Mediterranean, and while on that station took part in the various operations of the Syrian campaign, including the attack on Tortosa and bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. On the former occasion, 25 Sept. 1840, he landed at the head of a pioneer party, entered a breach in the wall of the castle, and brought off several stores of corn and rice. For his very gallant conduct in this afiair he obtained a Commander’s commission, dated 5 Nov. 1840, but since that date has been on half-pay.

Commander Charlewood married, 18 March, 1841, Sarah Carlton, second daughter of the late W. Willie, Esq., of Kingston, Hants, and has issue. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 CHARLTON. 

entered the Navy 10 June, 1828; passed his examination 4 Feb. 1835; served for some time, as Mate, on board the 84, Capt. Dan. Pring, in the Mediterranean, 16, Capt. Hon. Geo. Hope, at the Cape of Good Hope, and steam-vessel, Capt. Wm. Jones, engaged on a particular service; obtained his commission 25 Sept. 1843; was appointed 20 Oct. following Additional of the 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America; removed, 17 Feb. 1844, as Senior, to the 16, Capt. Sir Wm. Daniell, on the coast of Africa; and has been there employed, since 21 Nov. 1844, in the steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young.

 CHASMAN. 

entered the Navy, in 1794 as a Volunteer, on board the 98, Capts. Geo. Blagden Westcott and Andrew Mitchell on the Home station, where he afterwards removed to the sloop, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, and in May, 1799, joined, as Midshipman, the 36, Capts. John Cooke and Henry Rich. Glynn. During the four years of his continuance in the latter ship he assisted at the capture of three privateers, carrying in the whole 34 guns and 270 men and witnessed the taking, 27 Jan. and 9 April, 1801, of La Dédaigneuse French frigate, of 36, and Le General Brune corvette, of 14, guns. In May, 1803 Mr. Chasman obtained a berth on board the 100, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, of which, after pursuing the Franco-Spanish fleet to the West Indies, and participatmg, as Master’s Mate, in the battle of Trafalgar, he was created a Lieutenant, 22 Oct 1805 Having joined, 25 Feb. 1806, the  74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, we find him, as Second Lieutenant of that ship, conducting, on 1 Aug. 1808, an enterprise of much hazard and gallantry. It having been determined to bring out a convoy of 10 sail of deeply laden coasters, lying at anchor under the protection of a gun-boat close to the beach abreast of the town of Noli, on the coast of Italy, Lieut. Chasman was deputed, with the boats of the, and of the 16, under his orders, to effect that service. Although the vessels were fastened to the shore by ropes from their mast-heads and keels, and were further defended by the fire of two adjacent field-pieces, of a heavy gun in front of the town, and by a continued volley of musketry, yet were the objects of the expedition fully accomplished by Lieut. Chasman, who, landing with a party of his men, rushed with resistless impetuosity upon the assembled foe, and, with the aid of Lieut. John Hanlon of the Marines, personally captured and spiked the town gun. His subsequent appointments, as Lieutenant, appear to have been – 25 Sept. 1809, to the 16, Capt. Wm. Williams Foote, in the West Indies – 19 Nov. 1810, to the 18, Capt. Justice Finley, under whom he captured, in the Channel, 30 Nov. 1811, Le Comte Reginaud privateer, of 14 guns – 5 March, 1812, to the  38, Capt. John Quilliam, employed in cruizing in the Baltic, and also off Newfoundland, where she took, 16 Sept. 1813, the Elbredge Gerry, of 14 guns and 66 men – 31 Oct. 1814, and 23 March, 1815, to the  98, and  100, flag-ships at Plymouth of Admirals Wm. Domett and Sir John Thos. Duckworth – and lastly, 30 Nov. 1818, as First, to the 78, bearing the broad pendant, in South America, of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. He attained the rank of Commander 29 Jan. 1821, and subsequently officiated, from 20 Aug. 1840, until the same month in 1841, as Second Captain, in the 50, to Sir Edw. Durnford King, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. He has since been unemployed.

Commander Chasman married, in 1826, the only daughter of the late W. Ireland, Esq., of H.M.’s dockyard at Devonport.

 CHAVE. 

entered the Navy, 28 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capts. Edw. Augustus Down and Thos. Ussher, on the Mediterranean station; and attained the rating of Midshipman 22 Nov. 1807. Removing, in Aug. 1808, to the 16, Capt. John Lake, on the West India station, he served on shore at the capture of Martinique in Feb. 1809; after which he joined the  18, Capts. G. A. Creyke, Geo. Henderson, and Henry Lynne, under the last of whom he was again employed on shore, at the reduction of the Isle of France, in Dec. 1810. Subsequently to that event we find Mr. Chave cruizing, as Master’s Mate, off the same island, and also off Java, in command of a tender, for the suppression of slavery. He was transferred, in July, 1813, to the 32, Capt. Kenneth Mackenzie, in the West Indies; served next, from May to Sept. 1814, as Acting-Lieutenant, in the  20, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham, off the coast of Norway; then rejoined the Venus, on the same station; and, on 2 Feb. 1815, was promoted to his present rank. Since that period he has not been afloat. – Frederick Dufaur.

 CHEERE. 

passed his examination in 1826; obtained his first commission 30 April, 1836; served from 13 Feb. 1837, until the spring off 1841, in the 80, Capts. Sam. Jackson and Chas. John Austen, on the Mediterranean station; joined, 2 Dec. following the 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Rowley; and on 21 June, 1845, was promoted to his present rank, in honour of the Queen’s visit to the experimental squadron at