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576 , from June, 1828, to March, 1831, of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye. His present rank was conferred on him 19 July, 1842.

 JAGO. 

entered the Navy, 20 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 44, Capts. John Tremayne Redd, Henry Edw. Reginald Baker, and John Broughton, in which ship, after witnessing Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the French shipping in the Basque Roads, he proceeded with convoy to China. In July, 1812, having returned home, he accompanied Capt. Broughton into the 74, commanded subsequently by Sir Edw. Tucker; with whom, and with Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, he served, from March, 1813, until Oct. 1815, on board the 36, on the Brazilian and Portsmouth stations. He shortly afterwards joined the 98, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth; and, on being transferred with that gallant Admiral to the  100, he shared as Acting-Lieutenant, and was slightly wounded, in the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He was in consequence confirmed in his present rank by commission dated on 5 of the ensuing Sept.; but he has not been since employed.

 JAMES. 

was born 1 Aug. 1799.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Athol Wood, with whom he served in the Mediterranean until 1815, latterly as Midshipman. He then successively joined the Berwick and, flag-ships of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Plymouth, where he was further employed under the orders of Lord Exmouth, inclusive of a short period passed in the and  cutters, until 1818. The next four years were spent by Mr. James again in the Mediterranean, on board the 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. In 1822 he proceeded to the Brazils and Pacific in the 42, Capt. Thos. Brown; and on his return in that frigate to Rio de Janeiro he removed to the flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Geo. Eyre. On his arrival in England in 1826 Mr. James made a trip to Lisbon with Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. In July, 1827, he joined the 104, lying at Portsmouth, whence he soon sailed, in the  sloop, for the West Indies, and was there, it appears, transferred to the  schooner. On 3 July, 1829, being at the time in the 50, the flag-ship on the latter station of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 18. He came home in the course of the same year in the 46; and he was lastly appointed, 7 Oct. 1834, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the  52, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Thos. Bladen Capel, and, 7 July, 1835, to the 18, Capt. Edw. Stanley, both on the East India station. He invalided home in 1838 on board the sloop. Lieut. James married, 27 Aug. 1833, Mary, daughter of the late Thos. Ridley, Esq., of Chester Square, London, by whom he has issue three children.

 JAMES. 

entered the Navy, 28 Dec. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capts. Wm. Burgundy Champain and Thos. John Cochrane; under the former of whom he assisted at the capture, 13 Oct. 1805, near Tobago, of the Naïade corvette of 16 guns, 4 swivels, and 170 men. Under Capt. Cochrane he was present as Midshipman off the coast of Surinam at the capture, 27 Jan. 1807, of La Favorite French national ship of 29 guns and 150 men; and in the course of the next Dec. he witnessed the surrender of the Danish West India islands. In the autumn of 1808, shortly after his removal with the same Captain to the 38, he further served in an action with the French 40-gun frigate Amphitrite, as he did, in 1809, at the reduction of Martinique and the Saintes. The 19 months which immediately preceded his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 21 March, 1812, were employed by Mr. James on the Home and Brazilian stations in the, , and 74’s, Capts. Pulteney Malcolm, Graham Moore, and John Poo Beresford, and 80, flagship of Hon. Michael De Courcy. His subsequent appointments were – 21 April, 1813, to the 100, Capts. Jas. Bissett and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean – 29 March, 1814, as Senior, to the sloop, Capts. John Harper and Alex. Dixie, in which he proceeded from the Adriatic to the Chesapeake – 22 Aug. 1815, to the 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Harvey in the West Indies – 9 Sept. 1822, to the, Capt. John Lawrence, on particular service – 12 Nov. 1823, to the  18, Capt. Chas. Crole, again on the West India station – 29 May, 1828, to the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – and 22 July, 1830, 15 June, 1831, and 27 Aug. 1834, to the command of the cutter. schooner, and steam-vessel. Commander James, who has not been afloat since he was paid off in the early part of 1837, assumed his present rank 23 Nov. 1841. He is married and has issue. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 JAMES. 

was born, 9 Aug. 1760, at Liverpool, and died 13 Nov. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 April, 1779, as Midshipman, on board the 90, Capts. Sir Chas. Douglas, Sir Walter Stirling, and Alan Gardner, in which ship he participated in Rodney’s actions of 9 and 12 April, 1782, and on one of those occasions was severely wounded in the left leg. Between June, 1783, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 16 Nov. 1790, he successively served on the Home station in the 64, Capt. John Nicholson Inglefield,, Capt. Sir Andrew Snape Hamond,  again, Director, Capt. Thos. West, and 74, Capt. Sir A. Gardner. After an employment of three years on the coast of Ireland in the, Capt. Jas. Newman Newman, he obtained an appointment, in July, 1794, in the Transport service, and was sent to the West Indies. On 24 May, 1797, as a reward for the conduct he had exhibited in the 98, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis, during the never-to-be-forgotten mutiny, Mr. James was nominated to the command of the  gun-brig. He afterwards, in Feb. 1798, and May, 1803, assumed charge of the and   prison and hospital ships at Gillingham and Woolwich; and, from 1 Aug. 1804 until the receipt of his second promotal commission, bearing date 1 July, 1828, he commanded the  hospital-ship at Chatham. The remainder of his life was passed on half-pay.

Commander James married, first, in 1789, Miss Lucy Gifford and secondly, in 1800, Miss Margaret Copp. He has left two children by each marriage.

 JAMES. 

is son of the late John James, Esq., of Truro, Cornwall.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 May, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, stationed in the North Sea; and from the following Nov. until the conclusion of the war was employed in the Channel and West Indies, the latter part of the time as Midshipman, in the 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm. He next served for six years on the African station in the 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane,  14, Capts. Jas. Wallis, Henry John Rous, and Jas. Cairnes, 26, Capt. Jas. Wallis, 20, Capt. Henry J. Lake,  42, Commodore Sir Geo. Ralph Collier and 18, Capt. Benedictus Marwood Kelly. In Sept. 1821, after having acted