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490  of the 74, Capts. John Whitby and Wm. Hargood; rejoined the in 1805 (after having gone in pursuit of the Franco-Spanish fleet to the West Indies); and between Nov. 1806 and Oct. 1S08, was again employed in the Mediterranean on board the  100, and  98, flag-ships of Vice-Admirals Edw. Thornbrough and Lord Collingwood. Being then appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the 74, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and John Halliday, he was much employed in the boats of that ship up the Adriatic, and commanded a battery at the reduction of Santa Maura in April, 1810. He was officially promoted on 4 May in the latter year, but he did not leave the until May, 1811; on 25 Sept. in which year we find him joining the  18, Capts. Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, John Evans, Geo. Rich. Pechell, Thos. Sykes, and John Lawrence, on the North American station, where, prior to his being paid off in Jan. 1815, he served as First-Lieutenant at the taking of Washington, and of other places in the Chesapeake. His last appointment was, 28 Feb. 1818, to the 18, Capts. Hon. John Gordon and Wm. Nugent Glascock, with whom he served as Senior on the Newfoundland and Halifax stations, until, at which period he invalided.

Lieut. Heastey married, 23 Aug. 1821, and has issue four children. – J. Hinxman.

 HEATH. 

entered the Navy, 24 Dec. 1831; passed his examination in 1836; and obtained his commission 22 Dec. 1840. He then joined the 104, Capt. Thos. Forrest, on the Mediterranean station; and on 19 Oct. 1843, he was appointed to the 26, Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy, whom he accompanied to the East Indies. During an expedition conducted in July, 1846,. by Sir Thos. John Cochrane against the Sultan of Borneo, we find Mr. Heath, on 8 of that month, assisting, as second in command of the rocket-party, at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries on the river Brune. On the ensuing ascent of a branch of that stream, by a force under Capt. Mundy, he led the boats, and by his efficient command of a body of pioneers proved of the greatest utility in clearing the passage of the many overhanging trees and other obstructions with which ite navigation was beset. After the disembarkation of the British at the village of Mallout, he accompanied them in their arduous and fruitless pursuit of the Sultan to a place called Damuan, and again performed valuable service. He has been in acting-command, since Jan. 1847, of the 18, on the same station.

 HEATH. 

entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 4 Dec. 1839; and served for nearly five years, on the Mediterranean and North American stations, as Mate of the 36, Capts. Edw. Boxer; Rich. Augustus Yates, Henry Forbes, and Hon. Montagu Stopford; under the first-named of which officers (by whom his conduct was mentioned in the highest terms ) he took part, during the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, in the capture of Caiffa and Tsour, and the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. H« obtained his commission 26 Nov. 1844; was appointed, 13 Dec. following, Additional-Lieutenant of the 72, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Adam in North America and the West Indies; and since 27 Jan. 1845, has been employed on the same station in the 18, Capt. Fras. Scott.

 HEATHCOTE. 

entered the Navy 19 Dec. 1828; passed his examination in 1833; and attained his present rank 10 Jan. 1840. His appointments have since been, at first as Additional, but latterly as Senior Lieutenant – 19 March, 1840, to the 50, flag-ship in South America of Rear-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross – 25 Feb. 1841, and 27 June, 1844, to the 18, Capts. Edw. Reeves Philip Mainwaring, Philip Gostling, and Arthur Darley, and 26, Capt. Geo. Elliot, both on the North America and West India station – and 8 July, 1846, to the 50, Capt. Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, with whom he is now serving in the Pacific.

He married, in 1844, Elizabeth Lucy, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Law, K.H., commanding the Royal Newfoundland Companies.

 HEATHCOTE. 

was born 13 May, 1798.

This officer entered the Navy, in the winter of 1812, on board the 20, Capt. Henry Bourchier, whom he accompanied to Newfoundland. In 1813 he proceeded, with the consent of Sir Josiah C. Coghill, to the West Indies in the 36; and we afterwards, in 1815, find him employed at St. Helena on board the  74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin. In Aug. 1816, he fought and was wounded at Algiers in the 40, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland. The next ship he joined was, we believe, the 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, fitting at Chatham. From 1820 until within a short period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 31 March, 1824, Mr. Heathcote was lastly employed, on the Mediterranean station, in the 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and  80, flag-ship of Sir Graham Moore. – Hallett and Robinson.

 HEATHCOTE, Kt. 

, born 20 Jan. 1777, is fourth son of the late Sir Wm. Heathcote, Bart., of Hursley Park, near Winchester, M.P. for co. Hants, by Frances, daughter and co-heir of John Thorpe, Esq., of Embley, co. Hants; and brother of the late Capt. Gilbert Heathcote, R.N. (1806).

This officer entered the Navy, 3 July, 1790, on board the 74, Capt. Arch. Dickson, stationed in the Channel, where, and in the West Indies and Mediterranean, he was employed, during the six following years, in the 74, Capt. Henry Harvey,  frigate, Capt. Jas. Alms, 74, Capt. Hon. John Rodney,  36, Capt. Augustus Montgomery,  74, Capt. Arch. Dickson, 98, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sam. Cranston Goodall, frigate, Capt. Wm. Hotham, 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Mann, 32, Capt. Israel Pellew,  74, Capt. Sir Chas. Henry Knowles, and 100, flag-ship of Sir John Jervis. He served on shore, while in the, at the reduction of Corsica in 1794; and on 14 March and 13 July, 1795, he was present, as Midshipman of the , and Master’s Mate of the , in Admiral Hotham’s partial actions. On 19 Sept. 1796 Mr. Heathcote was confirmed a Lieutenant in the 100, Capt. Thos. Foley, in which ship, and the frigate, he further served in the Mediterranean, until nominated, 5 June, 1797, Acting-Commander of the  store-ship – an appointment sanctioned by the Admiralty on 11 of the following Aug. From the latter vessel, then at Lisbon, he was removed, 7 Nov. 1797, to the Captaincy, by an order from his Admiral, of the  36, which frigate he paid off shortly after his official advancement, 5 Feb. 1798, to Post-rank. Capt. Heathcote’s subsequent appointments were – 4 April, 1803, to the 32, employed at first on the coast of Ireland, and then in convoying a fleet of 150 sail to the West Indies, where, during a continuance of many months, he performed much valuable service, and gave proofs not only of great seamanship, but of more than ordinary 