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CURLEWIS—CURRIE. Fst.-cl. -Vol., on board the sloop, Capt. Geo. Le Geyt, stationed in the Channel, where, until April, 1813, he continued to serve, a great part of the time as Midshipman, in the 100, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, and 110,  110,  38, and  74, all commanded by Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn. He then rejoined the, as Signal Midshipman to Sir Rich. King; and, on 5 Nov. following, had a leg shot off in a skirmish with the fleet off Toulon. After a further attachment to the 28, and  104, flag-ships in the river Thames and at Plymouth of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and Sir J. T. Duckworth, Mr. Cuppage was awarded a commission, dated 6 April, 1815. He subsequently joined, 18 Aug. following, the 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, lying at Portsmouth; served, from 3 Oct. in the same year, until 21 Nov. 1820, on board the 36,  36, and  74, flagships in the East Indies of Sir Rich. King; and was next appointed – 20 Aug. 1822, to the sloop, Capt. Wm. Holmes, off the coast of Ireland – 1 July, 1823, to the 50, bearing the flag in the West Indies of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted – 10 Aug. 1825, to the 76, Capt. Sir Jas. Brisbane, on the South American station – and 4 Aug. 1826, and 18 Jan. 1827, to the 46, Capt. Wm. Fairbrother Carroll, and 52, flagship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hall Gage, both in the East Indie.s. Of the he assumed command, as Second Captain, 24 Dec. 1827; and on the ultimate return of that ship to England was advanced to Post-rank, 22 July, 1830. He has not since been afloat.

Capt. Cuppage obtained, 4 April, 1816, a pension of 91l. 5s. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 CURLEWIS. 

was born, 30 July, 1789, in London, and died about the commencement of 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 21 May, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, and in Sept. following assisted, under the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, at the bombardment of Granville. On subsequently proceeding to the West Indies, we find him wounded while serving in the boats under Lieut. Wm. Coote, and extolled for his unsurpassable bravery, at the cutting out, on the night of 2 Jan. 1807, of two of the enemy’s vessels, defended by a most fire from the batteries, near Pearl Rock, Martinique, which killed 2 men and wounded 10. After witnessing the surrender to the of the islands of Marie-galante and Deseada, Mr. Curlewis, in 1808, joined the  74, Capt. John Harvey, and under that officer was present, 26 Oct. 1809, at the self-destruction, in the Mediterranean, of the French line-of-battle ships Robuste and Lion. He next served for some time in the 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez in the Baltic, and being promoted, 28 Nov. 1811, to a Lieutenancy in the 74, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, was in company with the 98 and  74, in the gale which, on 24 Dec. following, proved so memorably fatal to those ships. From April, 1813, to Jan. 1814, Mr. Curlewis subsequently cruized in the North Sea on board the 18, Capt. Chas. Fred. Payne. He then became attached to the 74, Capts. Hon. Geo. Byng and John Tremayne Rodd, under the former of whom he sailed with convoy for the West Indies. Prior to being paid off, in Sept. 1815, Mr. Curlewis was caught in another dreadful hurricane, in which the lost her masts, guns, boats, and stores, and received 11 feet water in her hold. From 30 Sept. 1825, until March, 1831, he was next employed on the Coast Blockade as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and from 22 April in the latter year until promoted to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841, he had charge of a station on the Coast Guard. He continued thenceforward on half-pay.

Commander Curlewis married in 1817, and has issue seven children. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 CURRIE. 

, born in 1795, in London, is son of the late Mark Currie, Esq., by Eliza, daughter of John Close, Esq., of Easby, co. York; and first-cousin of Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. for Northampton.

This officer entered the Navy, 29 April, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, with whom he continued to serve, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, latterly as Midshipman, until April, 1813. He then, in the 38, Capt. Wm. Augustus Montagu, cruized for some months off the coasts of Portugal and Spain; and, obtaining his first commission 23 Sept. 1814, was appointed, 24 Oct. following, to the 74, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, in which ship he visited the Cape of Good Hope. We subsequently find him joining – 8 Feb. 1816, the 74, Capts. Chas. Ogle and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, at Portsmouth – 7 May, 1818, the 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Pryse Campbell, in the Mediterranean – 29 March, 1820, the 18, Capt. Chas. Nelson, at Leith – and, 20 Oct. 1820, and 8 Aug. 1821, the 18, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, and, as Flag-Lieutenant, the  50, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, on the E. India station. He there assumed command, 9 Jan. 1823, of his former sloop the ; and, on 18 March following, was appointed Acting-Captain of the, an 84-gun ship, which he brought home under very peculiar and trying circumstances, and in a manner that saved the Government considerable expense. He was not, however, confirmed to Post-rank until 23 Nov. 1841; since which period he has been unemployed.

Capt. Currie, we find, officiated with great ability as Secretary, in 1827-8, to Sir H. Blackwood, then Commander in Chief at the Nore. He also, from 1829 until 1832, fulfilled the duties of Colonial Auditor and Secretary to the Executive and Legislative Councils of Western Australia; and for the zeal and intelligence he displayed in those capacities, he received the thanks of the Governor, Sir Jas. Stirling. He married, 14 Jan. 1829, Jane, third daughter of Chas. Boynton Wood, Esq., by whom he has issue three sons and three daughters. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 CURRIE. 

died 13 May, 1846, at Haslar, aged 46.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 Nov. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, in which ship, and as Midshipman of the  98, he served, with the same officer, in the North Sea and Mediterranean, until July, 1814. Joining, then, the 74, Capt. Henry Bazely, he escorted the British garrison from Madeira to England; after which he became in succession attached – on the Home, West India, South American, Mediterranean, and East India stations – to the  18, Capt. John Bradly,, Capts. Chas. Strangways and Alex. Campbell, 16, Capt. W. Hall,  and  brigs, both commanded by Capt. Houston Stewart,  50, and  74, flag-ships of Rear-Adms. J. E.Douglas and Robt. Waller Otway, and 50, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle. Assuming the rank of Lieutenant 23 July, 1825, Mr. Currie joined, 1 Dec. following, the 26, Capt. Houston Stewart, at Halifax; and he was subsequently appointed Senior, 13 Nov. 1827, of the  18, Capt. Robt. Deans, off Cork – 28 April, 1829, and 15 March, 1830, of the 18, Capt. Thos. Gill, and 28, Capt. Wm. Walpole, on the Jamaica station – 2 Oct. 1831, again of the, Capts. Dawson Mayne. and Thos.