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BATE—BATEMAN—BATES. had the honour of conveying the Duke of Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wellesley, on shore; and on rejoining the, served with the fleet under Sir Jas. Saumarez in the Baltic, where he was frequently employed with the Russians, and often employed in the boats. Between Dec. 1808, and Aug. 1814, Mr. Bate further served on board the, , , and 74’s, Capts. Edw. Codrington, Robt. Plampin, Sir Jahleel Brenton, and Sir Home Popham; and during that period was present in the at the bombardment of Flushing, and made a voyage in the  to India. Obtaining his first commission 1 March, 1815, he subsequently joined – 30 Jan. 1826, the Coast Blockade, in which service he officiated, until its abolition, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the and  74’s, Capts. Hugh Pigot and David Colby – and, 15 April, 1831, took the command of a station in the Coast Guard. In 1834, for his “cool and intrepid conduct” in a desperate conflict of two hours with a party of armed smugglers, at Beer, in Devonshire, where he was severely wounded in the head, and had three fingers broken, he received the well-earned approbation of the Comptroller-General, and, on 15 Jan. 1836, was further rewarded with the rank of Commander. From 29 March, 1837, until 1840, and from 18 Jan. 1842, until the period of his death, he again served in the Coast Guard, in the capacity of Inspecting-Commander.

He has left a family of six children. – Messrs. Chard.

 BATE. 

entered the Navy 2 Sept. 1831; passed his examination 1 May, 1839; served as Mate on board the 72, Capt. Thos. Herbert, and 72, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Gordon Bremer; and for his services during the operations of May, 1841, against Canton, where he was wounded, was awarded a commission, dated on 8 of the following Oct. As Additional-Lieutenant of the  10, Capt. Rich. Collinson, he was subsequently employed on shore at the capture of Chapoo, 18 May, 1842, on which occasion, after assisting in landing the troops, he accompanied them in their advance, and by his spirited exertions succeeded in making prisoner a Chinese officer holding the rank of Colonel, He next served, with Capt. Collinson, on board the surveying-vessel; and since 8 July, 1843, has been in command, also in the East Indies, of the  tender.

 BATEMAN. 

, born in 1776, at Wormley, in Hertfordshire, is son of the late Nathaniel Bateman, Esq., an old Post-Captain.

This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Fras. John Hartwell, stationed in the Channel; and, after serving in the 44, and  64, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Manners Sutton, in the East Indies, became, in 1792, Midshipman of the 32, Capt. Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, in which vessel, when in company with the 32, he took part, 25 Nov. 1793, off St. Domingo, in a warm action of half an hour, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the  of 1 man killed and 7 wounded, of the French 36-gun frigate L’Inconstante. Removing next to the 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, Mr. Bateman, in 1794, witnessed the reduction of the French West India islands, and was slightly wounded while employed on shore at the attack on Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Having further served on board 32, and  74, flagships of Sir John Laforey, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 31 Oct. 1795, in the  64, Capts. Robt. M‘Douall, Fras. Laforey, and Chas. Sydney Davers, while under whom he participated in the reduction of the Dutch settlement of Demerara, and on that occasion, as at the subsequent destruction of a Spanish squadron near Trinidad, was again wounded. From 4 Jan. 1798 until promoted to the rank of Commander, 29 April, 1802, he served in the 74, and  98, bearing the flags in the North Sea and Baltic of Admiral Sir Rich. Onslow, Archibald Dickson, and Sir Hyde Parker; in the first named of which ships he fought, as Second Lieutenant, at Copenhagen, where his Captain, Robt. Jas. Mosse, was killed. Dunng the two years and a half immediately preceding hia attainment of Post-rank, 25 Sept. 1806, we find Capt. Bateman commanding in succession the, , and sloops, the two former employed in afibrding protection to the different convoys in the North Sea, and the latter in escorting the trade to the Mediterranean. His subsequent appointments were – 25 Sept. 1809, to the 74, bearing the flag in the Bay of Biscay of Hon. Robt. Stopford – in the course of 1812 to the 74, flag-ship of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, and  64, off Cadiz, where, on becoming Senior Officer, he effected the dismantlement of the English dockyard – and, 12 April, 1813, to the  74, which ship he brought home and paid off in the following June. He has not since been employed. His advancement to Flag-rank took place 23 Nov. 1841.

The Rear-Admiral married, in 1809, Lucy, third daughter of Wm. Chetwynd, Esq., of Ham Common, co. Surrey, and Hampstead, co. Cork, by whom he has issue a son and five daughters. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 BATES. 

was born 30 Nov. 1788. This officer entered the Navy, 10 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the gun-brig, Lieut-Commander John Guyon, on the North Sea station, where he was present in an attack on the enemy’s flotilla off Flushing, in which the  was very severely damaged, and had several men wounded. In Oct. 1804, he joined the sloop, Capts. Jas. Burn, Geo. Digby, and Fras. Newcombe, under whom he continued to serve, chiefly in the Mediterranean, until Oct. 1809, and during that period contributed to the capture, on various occasions, of a large number of Spanish vessels, of considerable value, ultimately producing to every man engaged the sum of 500l. In 1806 Mr. Bates, who had attained the rating of Midshipman, was taken prisoner by the crew of a vessel in which he had been placed as prize-master, carried to Catalonia, and there detained until, on being exchanged after a lapse of six months, he was enabled to rejoin the. On a subsequent occasion, while in the act of boarding a Genoese xebec, which the latter vessel had driven on shore near Cape Palos, he was knocked overboard by a spent musket-ball, but was happily rescued, and sent in charge of the captured vessel to Oran, on the coast of Barbary; on arriving in the vicinity of which town, he had the good fortune to save the fort of Marselquivir from falling into the hands of the Arabs. Returning, in 1808, to the Downs, Mr. Bates assisted at the capture of four heavy privateers, a service for which, conjointly with the rest of the officers and crew, he received the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief. He was thrice also, about the same period, intrusted with the hazardous duty of landing secret papers on the coast of France; and, in April, 1809, having escorted Col. Congreve, with 12 fire-ships, to the Basque Roads, was there employed throughout the whole of Lord Cochrane’s operations. During the subsequent expedition to the Scheldt, he took, while in command of the launch belonging to the 38, Capt. Walter Bathurst, a Dutch gun-vessel, mounting, besides 4 brass howitzers, 1 long