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Rh for six months as Lieutenant of the latter vessel, he took up a commission dated 28 of the previous April. His appointments have since been – 3 May, to the Coast Guard – 24 July, 1833, to the command of the Falmouth packet – 25 Jan. 1843 (after a few months of half-pay), Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel – and, 26 June, 1846, to the command of the  brig, in which he is again employed on the Falmouth station.

He married, in 1833, Emma, daughter of the late H. P. Andrews, Esq., of Bordean, Cornwall, by whom he has issue. – Holmes and Folkard.

 JAMES. 

entered the Navy, 3 April, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 120, Capt. Tristram Robt. Bicketts, in which ship he served under the flags of Earl St. Vincent, Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and Sir Chas. Cotton, on the Channel, Lisbon, and Mediterranean stations, until Nov. 1810 – nearly the whole time in the capacity of Midshipman. He had an opportunity, therefore of witnessing, while with Sir W. S. Smith, the departure of the Royal Family of Portugal for the Brazils in 1807. In Dec. 1810, after he had further served for a short time with Sir Chas. Cotton in the 110, he joined the  18, Capt. Thos. Bench, under whom, during a continued employment of nearly four years in the Mediterranean, he participated, among other performances, in the capture of three armed vessels, carrying in the whole 23 guns and 235 men. From Nov. 1814 until Aug. 1815 Mr. James, whose commission bears date 20 Feb. in the latter year, served in the North Sea and Channel as Master’s Mate of the sloop, Capt. Joseph Gulston Garland. His subsequent appointments were – 26 Oct. 1820, to the sloop, Capt. Stewart Blacker, lying at Plymouth – 17 Jan. and 22 March, 1822, to the  and, Capts. Percy Grace and Wm. Holmes, from the latter of which vessels he was superseded at his own request – and, 1 July, 1834, to the Coast Guard. He left that service in 1844, and has since been on half-pay.

 JAMES. 

entered the Navy, 12 Feb. 1806, as Fst.-cl Vol., on board the packet, Capt. Jas. Manderson, on the Falmouth station. After serving off Guernsey as Midshipman of the 38, Capt. Christopher Laroche, he joined, in Aug. 1807, the  74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, off Cadiz; and he was next, from May, 1808, until March, 1814, employed in the Mediterranean on board the 18, Capts. Robt. Mitford and Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer. During that period, besides witnessing the surrender of the islands of Ischia and Procida, and participating in the capture, 26 June, 1809, of 18 French gun-boats, as also in an action with the French 40-gun frigate Cérés, Mr. James, on 4 April, 1810, assisted at the destruction, by the boats of the and  32, under Lieut. Geo. Rose Sartorius, of several vessels well protected on the beach abreast of Castiglione. On another occasion he contributed, in the boats of the same sloop and of the 38, to the capture of other craft from beneath the fire of a battery and musketry at Terracina; and, on 18 Aug. 1813, we find him serving in the boats of a small squadron under Capt. Thos. Ussher in a very gallant attack on the batteries at Cassis, where, after sustaining a loss of 4 men killed and 16 wounded, the British, In four hours, succeeded in capturing 3 heavy gun-boats and 26 vessels laden with merchandize. In March, 1814, having returned to England and removed with Capt. Spencer to the 20, Mr. James sailed for Gibraltar. In the course of the same year he further joined the 120, and, bearing the flags in the Mediterranean and at Hamoaze of Lord Exmouth and Rear-Admiral Thos. Byam Martin. At the period of bis promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 16 Feb. 1815, he was serving as a Supernumary on board the 74, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Scomberg. He assumed charege, 30 Oct. 1824, for a short period, we believe, of the ; and he had lastly the command, from 25 Nov. 1839, of the Echo steam-vessel, on the North America and West India station.

 JAMESON. 

entered the Navy, 25 Nov. 1778, as L.M., on board the, Capts. Bonivier Glover, ___ Dixon, and Horatio Nelson, on the West India station, where, and in North America and the Channel, he continued to serve, chiefly as Midshipman, in the frigate, Capt. John Brown, and again in the, Capts. W. H. O’Hara and Robt. M‘Evoy, until Sept. 1783. On the renewal ot hostilities in 1793, after having been for nearly 10 years employed in the merchant-service, he joined the 74, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, attached to the force in the Mediterranean. In the course of 1795 he there removed in succession to the 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Robt. Linzee, and 98, commanded by his former Captain, Frederick; and in the early part of 1796 he was appointed by Sir John Jervis, in whose flag-ship, the Victory, he had been for a short time serving, to a Lieutenancy in a sloop under the orders at the time of Capt. Robt. Sauce. His official promotion took place on 28 July in the same year; after which period he was employed, we find, from March, 1797, to Dec. 1798, in the and  38’s, Capts. Wm. Pierrepont and Sir Chas. Hamilton – from Nov. 1799 until July, 1800, in the 32, Capt. Wm. Lukin – from Aug. 1800 until 1800, in command of a Signal station on Black Castle Hill, Lammermuir, N.B. – and, from July, 1804, until 1808, in the Sea Fencible service in Scotland. While in command of the boats of the, and in the act of boarding two of the enemy’s vessels in Quiberon Bay, Lieut. Jameson received a musket-ball in the shoulder, which, although his back has been cut open in the attempt, has never been extracted. He became a Retired Commander on the Senior List 27 Oct. 1837.

 JAMISON. 

entered the Navy 27 April, 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his commission 23 March, 1840. His succeeding appointments appear to have been – 30 May, 1840, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey in North America and the West Indies – 7 March, 1841, to the 16, Capt. Geo. Ramsay, on the same station – 29 Nov. 1842, to the steam-vessel, Capt. Geo. Nathaniel Broke, under whom he served at the Cape of Good Hope, for some time as First-Lieutenant – 2 Sept. 1845, to the 50, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres – and, 4 Feb. 1846, again as Senior, to the, Capt. Alex. Boyle, in which vessel he was wrecked in Algoa Bay in Feb. 1847.

 JANNS. 

entered the Navy, 29 July, 1800, as a Supernumerary, on board the 74, receiving-ship at Spithead, Capt. Symes; removed, in the course of the same year, to the, Capts. Jonas Rose, ___ Whitman, and Christopher John Williams Nesham, stationed in the Channel; served, from Oct. 1801 until Nov. 1806, at Home and in North America, on board the 24, Capts. Jonas Rose and John Dick; then rejoined Capt. Rose in the 64, lying at the Nore; and on 24 March, 1807, was made Lieutenant into the, Capt. Campbell. In the following Aug., having received an appointment to the 64, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson