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BARWELL—BASDEN—BASKERVILLE.  to Post-rank, which took place 2 Jan. 1837, has been on half-pay.

Capt. Barton, who is Senior of 1837, is at present Superintendent of the West India Mail Packet Company’s Establishmeut at Southampton.

 BARWELL. 

, born 31 Dec. 1793, is son of Osborn Barwell, Esq.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Nov. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Jas. Prevost, in which ship, after landing Lieut.-Gen. Whitelocke at Buenos Ayres in July, 1807, he returned home with the despatches announcing the disastrous result of the attack on that place. During a subsequent attachment of three years, as Midshipman, to the 32, Capt. John Ayscough, we find Mr. Barwell escorting the present Earl of Roden and a convoy to the Mediterranean, contributing to the reduction of Ischia and Procida, and participating in the capture and destruction of a large number of the enemy’s armed and other vessels. On next joining the 46, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, he served with credit in the boats of that frigate at the taking of a convoy of 28 merchantmen, defended by three gun-vessels and a body of 300 troops, in a creek in the island of Ragosniza, in the Adriatic, 27 July, 1811; and on 29 Nov. following bore a part in a hard-fought action of an hour and 40 minutes, which, in rendering the Active captor of La Pomone of 44 guns and 332 men, 50 of whom were killed and wounded, cost her a loss of 8 men killed and 27 wounded, including Capt. Gordon, who lost a leg. He was subsequently employed for two years in the 36, Capt. Henry Edwin Chamberlayne, and  18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley, both in the Mediterranean; was confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 7 Jan. 1814, in the  18, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, on the same station; and from May to Sept. 1815, officiated as First of the  18, Capts. David Ewen Bartholomew and Fras. Le Hunte, off Flushing. He has not since been afloat.

Lieut. Barwell married Susan Anne, daughter of J. C. Middleton, Esq.

 BARWELL. 

entered the Navy, 31 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Geo. Waldegrave, stationed in the Mediterranean, where he obtained the rating of Midshipman 6 March, 1813, and continued actively to serve until Dec. 1815. In Jan. 1816, he joined the 80, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell at Cork, whence, on being transferred, in Sept. 1818, to the 20, Capt. John Furneaux, he sailed for the East Indies; on which station he became successively attached to the  50, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, and  40 and  84 both commanded by Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, with whom he returned to England and was paid off in Oct. 1822. Mr. Barwell, who, after officiating for upwards of 12 months as Acting-Lieutenant, had been confirmed by commission dated on 29 March in the latter year, was subsequently appointed – 30 Nov. 1824, to the 18, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Hon. Chas. Abbot and, 8 May, 1827, to the 46, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Chas. Ogle on the North America station, where he served until promoted to the rank he now holds, 26 Feb. 1830. He has not since been employed. He is married, and has issue.

 BASDEN. 

entered the Navy, 18 June, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. John Wainwright, bearing the flag at Spithead of Admiral Geo. Montagu; proceeded in 1805 to the East Indies as Midshipman of the 50, Capt. Alex. Eraser; and, on joining the 38, commanded by the late Sir Jahleel Brenton, became an active participator, from 1807 to 1810, in all the dashing events which during the period marked that gallant officer’s career. He commanded on 14 May, 1807, off Nice, one of four boats in a valorous but unsuccessful attack on a polacre ship, in which the British suffered a loss, out of 70 picked men, of 63 killed and wounded, including 2 Lieutenants and 3 Midshipmen; assisted afterwards at the destruction, 23 April and 2 May, 1809, of the castles of Pesaro and Ceseratico; witnessed, on 10 of the latter month, the reduction of the island of Lossini, on the coast of Croatia; was present, early in Oct. following, at the surrender of Zante and Cephalonia; contributed also, on 9 of the same month, to the capture of Cerigo, an island near the Morea, for which service, as well as for Lossini, the Spartan received the thanks of the Admiralty; commanded a gun-boat in March, 1810, and was severely wounded while destroying a vessel he had driven on shore on the coast of Calabria, under the heavy fire of a body of troops; had further charge, 25 April ensuing, of one of the boats employed in cutting out four vessels from under the castle and batteries of Terracina; and, on 3 May, although nominally a Master’s Mate, performed the duties of Lieutenant on the occasion of the brilliant defeat, in the Bay of Naples, after an action of two hours, and a loss to the British of 10 men killed and 22 wounded, of a Franco-Neapolitan squadron, whose united force amounted to 95 guns and about 1400 men. On leaving the, in Dec. 1810, Mr. Basden proceeded to join the flotilla employed at the defence of Cadiz, and while so engaged was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 2 May, 1811. Assuming command, on 9 July in the same year, of the gun-brig, he continued to be very actively employed on the coast of Spain until 1812, particularly at the defence of Tarifa in Jan. of that year, for his meritorious services on which occasion he was especially noticed in the despatches of the senior officer, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson. While next attached, from Dec. 1812, to Oct. 1815, to the 74, Capt. Robt. Campbell, we find him assisting at the capture of Trieste, co-operating also with the Austrian forces in the reduction of Venice, and frequently employed on boat service. In 1825 he became Agent for Transports afloat, but resigned that appointment 25 Oct. 1827, and on 31 May, 1828, was ordered to join, as First-Lieutenant, the 78, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, on the Mediterranean station. He was there promoted to the command, 17 Feb. 1829, of the sloop, and, having paid that vessel off in 1830, was next employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard from 18 March, 1834, until 1837. He attained Post-rank 23 Nov. 1841, and is at present on half-pay.

Capt. Basden married, 22 April, 1817, Lydia, daughter of the late J. Pereira, Esq., and niece of the late Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, Bart., of Maristow, co. Devon, by whom he has an only daughter, married to Lieut. C. P. Coode, R.M., son of Capt. John Coode, R.N., C.B. – Messrs. Chard.

 BASKERVILLE. 

passed his examination 8 Nov. 1838; and served as Mate, in the Mediterrarean and South America, of the 74 Capt. Edw. Harvey, 26, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet, and 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas. He obtained his commission 20 April, 1846.

 BASKERVILLE. 

entered the Navy 4 March, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. Robt. Jackson, flag-ship in the Channel of Lord Keith. Until Aug. 1823, in the course of which month he passed his 