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Rh British troops from Portugal, and finally attached to the force in the Mediterranean, whence he returned home and was paid off in May, 1830. Capt. Lewis was advanced to Post-rank 22 July following. He married, 3 Feb. 1831, Anne, second daughter of the late Wm. Land, Esq., of Hayne House, Silverton.

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entered the Navy, 28 July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol,, on board the bomb, Capt. John Dick, lying at Sheerness; and on removing, in the following Dec, to the  24, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, was for some time most actively employed in the North Sea, where he assisted at the capture, 28 June, 1799, of L’Anacréon, a notorious French privateer, of 16 guns and 12.5 men. In Dec. of the latter year he became Midshipman of the 74, Capt. Chas. Stirling, under whom he was afforded an opportunity of sharing in the action off Algeciras 6 July, 1801. He was next, for several months of 1802, stationed in the West Indies on board the 74, Capt. John Giffard; after which we find him, in 1803, proceeding to the East Indies in the  74, Capt. Robt. Williams, and on 9 March, 1805, promoted, from the 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the  frigate, Capts. Hon. Alex. Cochrane and Chas. Foote. From that vessel, to which he had been confirmed 29 Jan. 1806, he followed Capt. Foote, in May, 1808, into the 38. He invalided from India in Dec. 1809; and was subsequently appointed – 27 April, 1811, and 3 Feb. 1812, to the 74, and  80, flag-ships in the Baltic and North Sea of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham – 17 April, 1813, to the 44, Capt. Thos. Browne, under whom he escorted the army under Sir Thos. Graham to the Scheldt and a convoy to Jamaica – 8 Oct. 1814, to the 44, Capt. Thos. Forrest, employed among the Western Islands – in June, 1815, to the direction of the Telegraph at the Admiralty – and, in May, 1816, to the command of the Revenue-vessel, in which he remained until superseded in May, 1819. He accepted his present rank 4 April, 1839.

The Commander is married, and has issue.

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entered the Navy in 1815, on board the 74; passed his examination in 1823; and was promoted to the rank he now holds 8 Jan. 1832. He has not been since employed.

Lieut. Lewis is Senior of 1831. – John P. Muspratt.

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(a) entered the Navy, 24 Sept. 1801, as A.B., on board the 38, Capts. John Poo Beresford and Thos. Jas. Maling, of which frigate, successively stationed in the Mediterranean, Channel, and West Indies, he became Midshipman in the following Oct., and Master’s Mate in May, 1805. On 3 Feb. 1806, being at the time prizemaster on board a detained American brig, he had the misfortune to be taken prisoner by a French privateer off the Scilly islands, and carried to France. He effected his escape in Dec. 1809, and, attaining the rank of Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1810, was Afterwards appointed in that capacity – in the course of the same month, to the 74, Capt. Hardy, stationed in the Baltic – 12 Jan. 1811, to the  74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, with whom he was for two years employed in the North Sea and Channel – and, 8 Oct. 1813, to the 36, Capt. Nathaniel Day Cochrane. In the latter ship he served on the Irish and West India stations, and again in the Channel, until Sept. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.

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(b) entered the Navy, 27 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol, on board the frigate, Capts. Alex. Campbell and John Wm. Spranger employed in the North Sea and Baltic; and in May, 1805, became Midshipman of the 50, Capts. Hugh Downman and Joseph Edmonds. On his return to England in the summer of 1807, after having witnessed the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope and the operations against Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, he joined the 74, Capt. Thos. Graves, and forthwith accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen under Admiral Gambier. Between Dec. of the same year and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 6 Feb. 1815, Mr. Lewis was successively employed, the latter part of the time as Master’s Mate, on board the 74, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and  64’s, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, Geo. Fred. Ryves, Edw. Stirling Dickson, and Chas. Bateman, 74, Capt. Bateman,  36, Capt. Henry Prescott,  32, Capt. Jas. Prevost, and 36, Capt. Gilbert Heathcote. The Stately was attached to the force engaged in the defence of Cadiz; the other ships occupied on the Home station. Since his promotion Mr. Lewis has been on half-pay.

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, born 16 March, 1799, is nephew of the late Lieut. John Lewis, R.N., a protege of the Duke of Kent, who was First-Lieutenant of H.M.S. Ariadne in 1806, and lost his life in the service of his country.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 Jan. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Joseph Sydney Yorke, Donald M‘Leod, Sam. Hood Linzee, and Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy. During an attachment of nearly six years to that ship we find him serving at the blockade of Lisbon, escorting the Russian Rear-Admiral Seniavin’s squadron to England after the convention of Cintra, assisting as Midshipman at the embarkation of the army after the battle of Corunna, and employed on boat-duty in the river Tagus during the occupation of the lines of Torres Vedras by Lord Wellington’s army. He was next, between June, 1812, and Dec. 1815, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena on board the 74, Capt. Alex. Skene, 64, Capt. Henderson Bain, and  74, Capt. Augustus Brine; and while in the last-mentioned ship he assisted at the capture, after an eight hours’ chase, of the United States brig Syren of 18 guns. In Jan. 1816 Mr. Lewis was appointed Chief Clerk to the Master Attendant at the Naval Arsenal at the Cape of Good Hope; in which capacity and that of Chief Clerk to the Comptroller of Customs he continued to officiate until Nov. 1820. Re-embarking in Feb. 1822, he served for four years and ten months, on the Home and South American stations, in the schooner, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Favill, 74,  76, and  82, all commanded by Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, and 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton. He left the latter ship in Dec. 1827, and, having passed his examination in Jan. 1823, was employed during the ten following years as Chief Mate in the and  Revenue-cruizers; in which he proved instrumental to the capture of 967 tubs of spirits and to the destruction of 2917 tubs, as also of eight vessels and boats. When in pursuit, on one occasion, of a smuggler, he was severely wounded in the right hand. His zeal and activity at length procuring him a commission dated 29 Jan. 1838, he was appointed, on 25 May in that year, to a Lieutenancy in the 24, Capt. Chas. Hamlyn Williams, and ordered to the Mediterranean, where he had the misfortune to be wrecked, near Tarragona, 28 Nov. 1839. He then returned home on board the 74, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe; and was lastly, from 2 March, 1840, until superseded at his own request in 1841, employed in the Coast Guard. When in the, on the South American