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GOSNOLD—GOSSELIN.  Jas. Morgan, 36, Capt. John Bowker,  18, Capt. John Baldwin,  46, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, 42, Capt. Thos. Searle, 12, Lieut.-Commander Lewis Fitzmaurice,  28, Capt. Thos. Alexander, 50, Capt. Thos. Coe, and 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis. He obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 17 Oct. 1833; removed, 12 Sept. 1840, to the command of the Revenue-cruizer; and, since 17 Nov. 1843, has again been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard. Lieut. Goslin’s services to the Revenue have been very effective. He was instrumental, in 1835, to the condemnation of L’Eugene smuggler, at the Isle of Man; and in the course of the same year he seized three American traders having a quantity of illicit goods on board. On 23 May, 1837, he had the good fortune to effect the similar capture of three smuggling yawls and of 21 men. He also, on one occasion, towed two water-logged vessels into Galway Roads, thereby saving the crews, together with property valued at 13,000l.; and on another he succeeded in rescuing from the wrecks of four vessels goods amounting to 8900l. On 5 Dec. 1843 he preserved from destruction the barque Margarette of New Brunswick, and property worth 5000l.

Lieut. Goslin was honoured, 28 Feb. 1839, with a letter of thanks from the Royal National Shipwreck Institution, for his conduct on 27 of the previous Nov. in having saved the lives of 17 persons at the imminent hazard of his own. – Fred. Dufaur.

 GOSNOLD. 

entered the Navy, 16 June, 1802, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the 18, Capts. John Hancock and Pringle Stoddart, with whom he served, before the mast, until Jan. 1811. On 16 May following he was present in a gallant attack on a division of the enemy’s flotilla, consisting of 59 sail, passing alongshore from Flushing to Ostend, in which the above vessel had 1 man killed and 4 wounded; and indeed he appears, during that and the following year, to have been not less than 104 times in action, either with the enemy’s flotilla or land-batteries. In 1807 he further attended the expedition against Copenhagen. On leaving the he was appointed Midshipman of the  10, Capt. Wm. B. Hunt, from which vessel, stationed in the North Sea, he removed, in Feb. 1812, to the 10, Lieut.-Commander Dan. Carpenter; under whom, on 8 Feb. 1813, he was in an action in which the British had 3 men killed and 7 or 8, including himself, wounded. The being lost off the Bahamas, 20 May, 1813, Mr. Gosnold was next appointed, as Master’s Mate, to the  store-ship, Master-Commander Josiah Oake, employed on the American coast. Since the receipt of his commission, which bears date 4 Jan. 1816, he has been on half-pay.

 GOSSELIN. 

, born 19 July, 1789, is second and youngest son of the late Joshua Gosselin, Esq., by Mary, daughter of Thos. Priaulx, Esq., of Guernsey; and nephew of.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 38, Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin; on accompanying whom as Master’s Mate into the 74, he was employed on the services detailed in the ensuing memoir. He afterwards, wo find, joined the 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, 36, Capt. Wm. Selby, 36, Capt. Jas. Hillyar, and again, all on the Baltic station; where, on 22 Sept. 181Q, he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the  64, bearing the flag of Admiral Manley Dixon. His last appointments were – 26 March, 1811, to the 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, on the North American station – and 10 June, 1813, for a short time, to the 38, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, in which frigate he returned to England.

 GOSSELIN. 

, born 7 May, 1765, is second son ’of Joshua Gosselin, Esq., Colonel of the North Regiment of Militia, by Martha, daughter of Thos. Le Marchant, Esq., of Guernsey. He is brother of General Gerard Gosselin, of Mount Ospringe, co. Kent, and also of Lieuts. Corbet and Chas. Gosselin, of the Navy and Army, both of whom died at Trinidad in 1803. His nephew,, is a Lieut. R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 Aug. 1778, on board the 44, Capt. P. Boteler, with whom he removed, in June of the following year, to the  64. That ship being captured on 16 Aug. 1779, by the combined fleets of France and Spain, he remained for three months a prisoner at Alençon, in Normandy. He next joined the 98, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, in which ship, after witnessing the reduction of the Dutch island of St. Eustatius, he fought in the action with the Comte de Grasse off Martinique, 29 April, 1781, and in those of 25 and 26 Jan. 1782, off St. Kitt’s. Removing then to the, commanded by Capt. Hood, Mr. Gosselin took further part in the memorable operations of 9 and 12 April, 1782, as also in the capture, on 19 of the same month, of two French line-of-battle ships, a frigate, and a corvette, the latter of which struck to the {sc|Champion}} after a few broadsides. After an additional servitude in the 32,  74,  16,  50,  74, and  98, on various stations, he was promoted, 1 Dec. 1787, to the rank of Lieutenant; his appointments in which capacity were, it appears, to the  16,  64, and  38, all on the East India station; where he was invested with the command, 20 April, 1793, of the  sloop. Capt. Gosselin, whose next appointment was, 19 March, 1794, to the 18, subsequently assisted the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis in the capture of a small convoy off Belleisle, and compelled a French frigate to cast off a large store-ship she had in tow. Being confirmed to Post-rank 23 July, 1795, in the 74, he further obtained command, on 22 April and 25 July, 1796, of the  38, and  32. At the conclusion of the mutiny at Spithead in 1797 (previously to which he had captured the Sans Peur French cutter privateer, carrying 2 swivels, some small arms, and 18 men) Capt. Gosselin proceeded in the latter frigate, with the 32, and 20-gun ships  and, under his orders, to the relief of Sir Rich. Strachan off St. Marcon. In March, 1798, he sailed in charge of a large convoy for Jamaica and the Leeward Islands, carrying out at the same time Major-General Bowyer, the Governor-General, and Staff; and on this occasion the Masters of the merchantmen presented him with a very valuable sword, as a mark of their respect and esteem. After contributing, in Aug. 1799, to the reduction of the Dutch colony of, Capt. Gosselin returned to England with another convoy. He was next employed for three months during the summer of 1800 in attendance upon George III. at Weymouth. In Feb. 1801 we again find him escorting the trade to the West Indies, where he continued until the peace. The, to which frigate Capt. Gosselin had been removed in the previous Oct., being paid off 23 June, 1802, he did not again go afloat until 2 Feb. 1804, on which date he was appointed to the 110 bearing the flag of the Hon. Wm. Cornwallis off Brest; where, on being appointed in the following summer to the 38, he so distinguished himself by his energy in command of the in-shore squadron of frigates as to attract the successive thanks of the above officer and of Lord Gardner and Sir Chas. Cotton. From the Capt. Gosselin (who had captured in her the Amphion Spanish 