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Rh he accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen. He afterwards served – from Feb. 1808 until he invalided in Jan. 1811 – on the Channel, Bay of Biscay, and Mediterranean stations, in the sloop; which vessel, during the illness of her proper Captain, Chas. Kempthorne Quash, he personally commanded at the defence of Sicily in 1810. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 19 July, 1842. – Hallett and Robinson.

 JAUNCEY. 

is eldest surviving son of Capt. Henry Fyge Jauncey, R.N. (1821), who died in July, 1834.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol,, on board the 10, commanded by his father in the Channel; and, from Oct. 1818 until July, 1822, served on the Irish and West India stations in the  42, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby. He then joined the 74, flag-ship at Chatham of Sir Benj. Hallowell; and in the following Dec, after having passed his examination, he sailed for South America in the 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell. Returning to England in Sept. 1826, Mr. Jauncey was next, in March, 1827, nominated to a Mateship in the 46, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Ogle at Halifax, where he continued until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 26 Feb. 1830. His appointments in the latter capacity were – 10 Dec. 1833, to the 50, Capt. Sir Sam. Roberts, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – and, 28 Dec. 1836, 3 Nov. 1840, and 17 Jan. 1843, as Senior, to the 16, Capts. Alex. Milne and John Baker Porter Hay, 50, Capt. Wm. Walpole, and 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne, on the West India, Mediterranean, and Plymouth stations. He was advanced to his present rank in honour of a visit paid by Her Majesty to the 25 Sept. 1843; and has been employed, since 16 Nov. 1846, as Second-Captain of the  90, part of the Channel squadron. - Messrs. Halford and Co.

 JAY. 

entered the Navy, 1 May, 1801, as A.B., on board the 64, Capt. Geo. Hart, under whom (we except an attachment of a few months in 1803-4 to the 32, Capt. Sam. Sutton) he continued to serve, on the Mediterranean and North Sea stations, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until May, 1805. He was then borne for a few months, as a Supernumerary, on the books of the frigate, Capt. Wm. Cockraft, lying at Sheerness, whence, towards the close of the same year, he returned to the Mediterranean in the 64, Capt. Thos. Harvey. After assisting at the passage of the Dardanells in Feb. 1807, on which occasion he was slightly wounded, Mr. Jay, on Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis succeeding to the command of the, proceeded to the Baltic. Arrived on that station, he removed, in Jan. 1810, to the cutter, Lieut.Commander Chas. Champion, and was there actively employed until June, 1811. During the next two years he presents himself to our notice as serving atSheerness on board the 64, Capts. Thos. New, Chas. Hewitt, and Edw. Sneyd Clay; and from July, 1813, until July, 1814, we find him in command, the last six months with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the gun-boats Nos. 14 and 19, on the north coast of Spain. On his return to Sheerness Mr. Jay was received as a Supernumerary on board the 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams. During the few months immediately antecedent to his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 6 Feb. 1815, he served, it appears, in the 74, bearing the flag in the West Indies of the late Sir Philip Durham. His next appointments were – 15 July, 1818, to the 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling, fitting at Plymouth – and, 13 Sept. 1822, and 31 May, 1823, to the and  Coast-Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot. He has held the office, since 26 June, 1828, of Superintendent of Semaphores at the Admiralty. The commission he at present holds bears date 22 Oct. 1841.

Commander Jay, in consideration of the wound he received at the Dardanells, obtained a pecuniary grant from the Patriotic Society. He is married, and has issue. – Fred. Dufaur.

 JEAYES. 

, born 25 Dec. 1799, at Coventry, is son of the late Henry Jeayes, Esq., of that city; step-son of the late, and step-brother of the present Capt. John Mascal, R.M.; and brother-in-law of Rich. Rodney Bligh Hopley, Esq., Surgeon R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1813, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the 74, Capts. Geo. Scott, John Wainwright, and Alex. Skene; in which ship we find him present, as Fst.-cl. Vol., in the attacks on Washington, Alexandria, Fort Bowyer, Baltimore, and New Orleans. Having attained the rating of Midshipman 1 Sept. 1815, he joined, in Feb. 1816, the 74, Capt. Thos. Boys, with whom he served for two years and seven months on the Home station; after which he appears to have been employed on the coast of Africa from 28 May, 1819, until 10 Aug. 1823, nearly the whole time as Master’s Mate, in the brig, commanded in succession by various Lieutenants. During that period Mr. Jeayes was twice in action with pirates. He assisted also at the destruction of several slave-factories in the river Pongo; and, in Aug. 1821, having volunteered his services, he succeeded, in a boat with only 14 hands, in cutting out from Duke’s Town the Portuguese schooner Conceicao of 6 guns and 36 men, with 256 slaves on board – for his skill in navigating which vessel to Sierra Leone, although making three feet water per hour, he received the thanks of his Commander, Lieut. Christopher Knight. In Sept. 1822 Mr. Jeayes (who had passed his examination in the previous Feb.) was again sent in charge of a prize to Sierra Leone, during the last nine days of his passage whither he suffered great privations, being reduced to half a pint of water and a pint of Indian corn a-day. On the return to England of the in Aug. 1823, he voluntarily joined the Prince Regent colonial brig, for the purpose of co-operating with the troops in the Ashantee war. Succeeding soon to the command of that vessel, Mr. Jeayes, among other important and particular services, effectually covered the retreat of Lieut. Erskine and 149 of his men, after the death of Sir Chas. McCarthy at the battle of Assamacow, and, by his exertions in procuring fresh provisions, had the good fortune of preventing the garrison of Cape Coast Castle from delivering themselves into the hands of their ferocious enemy. He likewise on one occasion, in 1824, proceeded with the boats from Sierra Leone off the Iles de Los, a distance of about 70 miles, and captured Les Deux Soeurs with 136 slaves on board. In consequence, however, of the great fatigue endured by him in the performance of that service, having been exposed in an open boat for eight days and nights, he was for two months laid up with an attack of African fever. On being sent home with despatches for the benefit of his health, he was at length, through the strong recommendation of Major-General Chas. Stuart, Governor of Sierra Leone, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 17 Oct. 1825. Returning again to his former station, as second in command of the steamer, he there assumed the successive Captaincy, 3 April and 16 May, 1826, of the colonial vessels  and. In the following Aug. Mr. Jeayes was once more compelled to invalid. His subsequent appointments were – 23 Feb.