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Rh  Henry Wray, attached to the force at Jamaica; and, between March of the following year and April, 1794, was employed on the Home and Mediterranean stations, the last 16 months as Master’s Mate, in the and  sloops, Capts. Rich. Runwa Bowyer, Sir Harry Burrard, Graham Moore, Solomon Ferris, and Lord Augustus FitzRoy; with the latter of whom he further, until Feb. 1796, served in the, , and frigates. Being promoted (from the 50, flag-ship at Newfoundland of Sir Jas. Wallace) to a Lieutenancy, 27 Dec. 1796, in the  sloop, Capt. David Atkins, he served in that vessel in the Channel and at the Cape of Good Hope until Feb. 1799; and he was next, between July, 1800, and Oct. 1803, employed, on the Java, Baltic, and West India stations, in the  store-ship, Capt. John Lee,  again, Capt. Geo. Ormsby, 74, Capts. Jas. Robt. Mosse and Wm. Bligh, 74, Capt. Peter Turner Bover, and  36, Capt. Jas. O’Bryen. In the he fought and bled at Copenhagen. He afterwards served on the Home and Newfoundland stations – from Sept. 1804, to May, 1807, in the 74, Capts. Wm. Bligh and Sam. Hood Linzee, sloop, Capt. Wm. Williams Foote, and 38, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling – from Sept. 1815 to Aug. 1816, in the and  74’s, each under the orders of Capt. Jas. Walker – and from Nov. 1819, until awarded a second promotal commission, 19 July, 1821, in command of the gun-brig. He did not afterwards go afloat.

 MINGAYE. 

entered the Navy, 16 Sept. 1798, as a Volunteer, on board the of 46 guns, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham; and in the course of the ensuing month was present, we believe, at the defeat of the squadron under Commodore Bompart, carrying troops for the invasion of Ireland, and (in company with the 18) at the capture, with a loss to the  of 2 killed and 13 wounded, of La Loire of 46 guns and 664 men (including troops), 46 of whom were killed and 71 wounded. After an attendance of some time upon the King off Weymouth, he accompanied Capt. Durham, in Feb. 1801, into the 40, in which ship, besides assisting at the capture of La Furie privateer of 14 guns, he escorted a convoy of 10 Indiamen home from St. Helena. In 1802 he became in succession attached to the and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Parker; and on next joining the 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, he was wrecked on the Black Rocks off Brest, in March, 1804. On 8 Feb. 1805, having in the interim served with Capt. Jervis on board the 80, he was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the  gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander John W. Skinner, stationed off Boulogne, where he remained until presented with a Lieutenant’s commission dated 6 July following. Joining then the 64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng, he served on shore with the naval brigade under that officer at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806; after which he was, it appears, appointed – 10 June, 1806, to the alias  32, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, on the East India station, whence he invalided 10 Aug. 1809 – 19 March and 31 Dec. 1812, to the 22 and  frigate, both commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Wm. King, with whom he continued until 5 July, 1813 – and 5 March, 1816, and 21 July, 1817, as Senior, to the 36, and  yacht, Capts. Wm. King and Hon. Chas. Paget, each employed on Home Service. As Commander, a rank he attained 2 Oct. 1817, Capt. Mingaye served, from 1 Oct. 1818 until paid off in Jan. 1822, in the 10, on the Portsmouth station. He was advanced to Post-rank on 29 of the month last mentioned; became Acting-Captain, 23 July ensuing, of the yacht; obtained command, in July, 1824, of the  50, armée en flûte, fitting at Chatham; and, from 8 Jan. 1825 until the abolition of the Service in 1831, was in command of the  42, lying in Newhaven Harbour, on the establishment of a third-rate, for the purposes of the extended Coast Blockade.

 MITCHELL. 

entered the Navy, 27 April, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capts. David Colby and Chas. Rowley, in which ship he continued to serve until 30 Aug. 1811. At first he was employed in the North Sea under the flags of Admirals Edw. Thornbrough and Thos. Macnamara Russell; he afterwards, in May, 1806, assisted at the capture of the island of Capri, on the coast of Italy; and in 1810, having previously taken part in the gun-boat service in the expedition to the Walcheren, he aided in conveying powder to Fort Matagorda, when attacked by the French during the siege of Cadiz. Joining next, in Jan. 1812 (he had passed his examination 15 Jan. 1811), the  sloop, Capt. Hayes O’Grady, he served for two years in that vessel on the Jamaica station, and was often employed in her boats in effecting the well-resisted capture of slave-vessels and other contraband traders. In Nov. 1815, after he had been attached for three months as a Supernumerary to the 74, flag-ship of Sir Thos. AVilliaras at Sheerness, and for 14 as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant to the 38, Capt. Jos. James, on the Jamaica station, he took up a commission dated 3 March in that year. His next and last appointment was, 27 Dec. 1825, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued, with his name on the books of the 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot, until March, 1830.

 MITCHELL. 

, born 3 Dec. 1796, is a relative of Admiral Sir Robt. Calder, Bart., K.C.B., who died in 1818.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 March, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Wm. Prowse. After a servitude of more than two years in the North Sea – a great part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman – and a voyage to St. Helena for the purpose of convoying home a large China fleet, he removed, in Dec. 1813, to the 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise. In that ship, which was at first employed off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, he had charge of the signals, and was severely wounded in the leg at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. In Jan. and April, 1817, he successively joined, at Plymouth, the 104, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, and the 20, Capt. John Pasco; and on 29 Sept. in the same year, at which period he was serving in the West Indies on board the  18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe. He went back to the in Oct. 1818; and (that vessel being paid off on 19 of the ensuing month) was afterwards appointed – 29 Nov. 1825, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 19 Nov. 1828, to the Coast Guard – 13 Oct. 1831, to a three years’ command of the  Revenue-cruizer – and 22 Dec. 1837, to the office of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel. From the aggravated effects of the wound he had received at Algiers, Lieut. Mitchell was under the necessity, in June, 1842, of resigning the situation last named. Although prevented, from the same cause, from resuming the active duties of his profession, he has hitherto been unsuccessful in his endeavours to obtain a pension.

 MITCHELL. 

entered the Navy, about 1775, as Gunner’s Servant, on board the 