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GROSE—GROSETT—GROTE—GROUBE. GROSE. 

entered the Navy, 21 Oct. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the frigate, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship, and in the 38, and  74, on the Irish, Channel, and Mediterranean stations, until 1814. During that period, besides contributing to the capture of other smaller vessels, he assisted in the at the taking, 15 Feb. 1809, of Le Var of 26 guns, laden with corn for the relief of the French garrison at Corfu; the reduction, in 1809-10, of the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, and Sta. Maura; and the destruction, 5 May, 1811, under a heavy hostile fire in the harbour of Parenza, of a French 18-gun-brig. In the, Mr. Grose took part in Sir Edw. Pellew’s skirmish with the Toulon fleet, 5 Nov. 1813; and he was also present in the same ship at the capture of a large convoy under the guns of Porto Maurizio, 11 April, 1814. After witnessing the surrender of Genoa, he was sent home from that place in a prize. He was next for a short time employed on the coast of Africa, in the 22, Capt. John Tailour. His promotion to the rank of Lieutenant took place 27 Feb. 1815; and his appointment to the guard-ship at Portsmouth, where he is now serving, 12 Nov. 1846.

 GROSETT. 

is uncle of John Rock Grosett, Esq., formerly M.P. for Chippenham.

This officer entered the Navy, in Nov. 1779, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 90, Capt. Walter Young, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Bridges Rodney. In Jan. 1780, while on his passage to the relief of Gibraltar, he assisted at the capture of a 64-gun ship in charge of a large convoy, and was also present in the action with Don Juan de Langara. In Sept. following, after having further participated in the three actions with M. de Guichen, off Martinique, he became Midshipman of the 32, Capt. John Rodney, whom he subsequently followed into the  28 (one of the repeating-frigates in the action of 12 April, 1782), and  64. From 1784 until 1787 he was employed in the 28, bearing the broad pendant on the North American station of Commodore Herbert Sawyer. Re-embarking early in 1794, as Master’s Mate, on board the 98, flag-ship in the West Indies of Sir John Jervis, he frequently distinguished himself while serving on shore with the army at the ensuing sieges of Martinique, Ste. Lucie, and Guadeloupe. He was promoted, on 25 Oct. in the same year, to a Lieutenancy in the 32, Capts. Josiah Rogers, Jas. Carpenter, and John Cooke, and next appointed, on the Lisbon, Mediterranean, and Channel stations, to the 32, Capt. Philip Wilkinson,  64, Capt. Peter Aplin,  32, Capt. John Giffard,  74, Capt. John Markham,  110, flagship of Earl St. Vincent and Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, and yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale. While in the, Mr. Grosett appears to have received the thanks of the President and Council of Granada for his able and gallant conduct in having landed with a detachment of 150 seamen and marines on that island, and materially contributed to its tranquillity and preservation; and on another occasion, 16 Feb. 1799, we find him, in command of the ’s boats, destroying the guns of a battery near the Spanish town of Cambrelles, where he burnt five settees, and brought out a similar number. Obtaining a second promotal commission 6 Oct. 1801, he was next appointed to the command – in Aug. 1802, of the brig, on the Guernsey station – and, 18 June, 1803, of the  32, armée en flûte, successive flag-ship at Cork of Admiral Lord Gardner, Rear-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury, and Vice-Admirals Jas. Hawkins Whitshed and Edw. Thornbrough. He was posted from the latter vessel 21 Oct. 1810; and on 1 Oct. 1846 was advanced to his present rank. Rear-Admiral Grosett, on his supercession from the, was presented with the freedom of the city of Cork, and the unanimous thanks of the Committee of Merchants for the great attention he had exhibited to their interests. His conduct, during the term of his previous servitude under Lord St. Vincent, so met the approval of that nobleman as to have obtained from him the gift of a medal. The Rear-Admiral is married and has issue. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 GROTE. 

, born 5 Feb. 1801, is fourth son of the late Geo. Grote, Esq., a Justice of the Peace for cos. Kent and Oxford, by Selina Mary, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Peckwell. He is brother of Geo. Grote, Esq., M.P. for the city of London, the eminent banker; also of Wm. Henry Grote, Esq., late Major in the 33rd Foot; and of Andw. and Arthur Grote, Esqs., of the Hon.E.I.Co.’s Civil Service, Bengal.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 April, 1814, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capts. Hon. Edm. Sexten Pery Knox, Robt. Bloye, and Jas. Lillicrap; in which ship, after conveying the Due de Berri to Cherbourg, and Admiral Fleeming to Gibraltar, he served, until Dec. 1815, on the Home station, and was employed for some time in that year in guarding Napoleon Buonaparte during his detention at Plymouth. Until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 20 March, 1823, just three years after he had passed his examination, Mr. Grote was next successively employed; as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the West India, Cork, and Newfoundland stations, in the 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, 80, and  38, flag-ships of Sir Benj. Hallowell and Sir Chas. Hamilton, 10 (which vessel, on 23 June, 1822, was totally wrecked in St. Shott’s Bay), Capts. Octavius Venables and Chas. Adolphus Baker, and 12, Lieut.Commander John Eagar. For his exertions on the occasion of the wreck of the, Mr. Grote, who was left the senior surviving officer, had the satisfaction to be presented, immediately after the sitting of the consequent Court-martial, with a commission dated as above, appointing him to the 28, commanded on the Halifax station by Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly. On 18 Oct. 1824 he joined the 46, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Brisbane in the East Indies; where, from July, 1825, until the cessation of hostilities, he took an active part in the Burmese war. He was employed in command, during that period, of a division of boats on the river Irawady, being five months in the ship’s pinnace without once sleeping out of her, and 800 miles away from the ship. Since the paying-off of the in 1827, Lieut. Grote has remained unemployed.

 GROUBE. 

entered the Navy, in June, 1793, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Lord Hugh Seymour, and in the course of the same year was present at the investment of Toulon. In Feb. 1794, he became Midshipman of the 38, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew; under whom, when in company with other ships, he successively witnessed the rapture of La Pomone of 44 guns and 341 men, Le Babet of 22 guns and 178 men, L’Engageante of 38 guns and 300 men, and La Révolutionnaire of 44 guns and 351 men. On his removal with the same officer to the of 46 guns, he further assisted at the capture of L’Unité of 38 guns and 265 men, and La Virginie of 44 guns and 340 men; besides contributing, in company with the  36, to the destruction, with a loss to the  of 19 men wounded, of Les Droits de l’Homme 74. On 21 Aug. 1799, a few months after he had accompanied Sir Edw. Pellew into the 74, Mr. Groube was appointed a Lieutenant of that 