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Rh until paid o£f at the close of 1840, as First-Lieutenant, in the 16, Capt. John Shepherd (b), on the Brazils and Cape of Good Hope stations; and since 18 July, 1845, has been in command of the  steamer of 150 horsepower. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 PHILLIPS. 

entered the Navy 25 Nov. 1820; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838. His succeeding appointments were – 21 Sept. 1839, to the, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, in which vessel he sailed with an expedition under Capt. Jas. Clarke Ross, for the purposes of magnetic research and geographical discovery in the Antarctic Ocean – and, 23 Nov. 1843, as First-Lieutenant, to the 16, Capt. Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he returned to England and was paid off in 1847. He was advanced to the rank of Commander 31 Jan. 1848. – Messrs. Chard.

 PHILLIPS. 

was born 22 Aug. 1790. His grandfather, Lieut. Rich. Lang, was nearly 50 years a commissioned officer in the service.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 July, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Wm. Essington, Chas. Brisbane, and Robt. Barton, employed in the Channel and West Indies – for some time under the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. In Feb. 1806 he removed as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in June, 1802) to the 98, flag-ship in the Baltic and Channel of Rear- Admirals Elias Harvey and Fras. Pickmore; he next, from Nov. 1809 until Oct. 1812, served, in the North Sea and Baltic, on board the 14, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Wickham, 74, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, and 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez; and on 20 Nov. in the latter year he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the sloop, Capt. Thos. Mansell. In the, Mr. Phillips witnessed the capture, 28 June, 1803, and 11 and 18 Aug. 1805, of La Mignonne of 16 guns and 80 men, La Faune of 16, and La Torche of 18 guns. While attached to the he retook a galliot, and cut out a Danish privateer. The Quick Huntsman; and when in the, besides making prize of another privateer, he came into contact, in 1811, with a flotilla of 40 gun-boats. Although the latter had been the aggressors, several of them were taken by the. When afterwards in charge of a Russian brig, Mr. Phillips was cast away and taken prisoner on the coast of Lapland. During the winter of 1812, at which time he was serving on board the, he assisted at the capture by that sloop of every vessel that came out from Norway or Jutland. Lieut. Phillips’ last appointment was to the 10, Capts. John M‘Kerlie, John Codd, and Alex. Maconochie, with whom he continued from 25 May, 1813, until paid off in Sept. 1815. On 8 July, 1813, he was for two hours in action with the enemy’s naval force at Cuxhaven; and on 31 of the following Oct., having been sent up the river Weser in charge of the boats of the and, he passed the strong batteries of Bremerlehe and Blexen (at the surrender of which he was shortly afterwards present), and succeeded in capturing two row-boats, one carrying 16 the other 12 men, together with four sail of merchantmen, lying off Braak, where he also aided in taking possession of two 20-gun corvettes that were building. During the expedition against New Orleans Lieut. Phillips, with the ’s cutter in charge, co-operated with the small-arm men under Capt. Rowland Money, and the troops under Colonel Thornton, at the storming of a battery on the Mississippi, 8 Jan. 1815.

He married, 28 Nov. 1825, Miss Mary Clapshaw.

 PHILLIPS. 

entered the Navy, 28 Aug. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Chas. Dudley Paler and John Erskine Douglas; under the latter of whom we find him present, as Midshipman, at the destruction of the French 74-gun ship Impétueux, off Cape Henry, 14 Sept. 1806, also in the attack upon the enemy’s fleet in Basque Roads and in the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809, and at the capture, 18 Dec. 1810, of Le Héros du Nord privateer of 14 guns and 44 men. On 22 June, 1807, he chanced to be, as a Supernumerary, on board the 50, Capt. Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, when that ship compelled the U.S. frigate Chesapeake to surrender, in consequence of a refusal on the part of the latter to allow the British to search her for deserters. Following Capt. Douglas from the, in May, 1812, into the 98, he sailed with him soon afterwards for the Mediterranean, where, in April, 1814, he beheld the fall of Genoa. On his return to England in April, 1815, from the West Indies, whither he had gone with convoy in the 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Webley Parry, Mr. Phillips found that he had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Feb. preceding. From May, 1824, until March, 1831, he served in the Coast Blockade as a Supernumerary of the 74 and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye. He has been since serving in the Coast Guard.

 PHILLIPS. 

entered the Navy, 12 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 16, Capt. John Thicknesse, employed on the Jersey and Guernsey station, where he came into frequent contact with the enemy’s gun-brigs and batteries, and was more than once engaged in cutting out their vessels. In 1809, having removed as Midshipman to the 50, Capt. Hugh Cook, he sailed with Vice-Admiral Wm. O’Brien Drury for the East Indies, whence, in March, 1811, we find him escorting several of the Hon. Co.’s ships by St. Helena. In the following Sept. Mr. Phillips was received on board the 44, in which ship he continued to serve under the flags, off Jersey and Cherbourg, of Admirals D’Auvergne and Wm. Brown, until Sept. 1812. During the next 12 months he was employed at the blockade of the Texel, as Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capt. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker. He then joined the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope. In Nov. 1815, having been awarded a commission dated 6 of the preceding March, he returned to England. He has since been on half-pay. He married in 1817, and has issue one son and seven daughters.

 PHILLOTT. 

entered the Navy, 27 Jan. 1794, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, Capt. John Stanhope, then on the eve of her departure for the West Indies; and was afterwards, until advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, 1 July, 1801, employed on various stations in the  sloop, Capt. Chas. Ogle, 64, Capt. Henry Edwin Stanhope,  64, Commodore John Blanket,  98, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Erasmus Gower,  74, Capts. H. E. Stanhope and Geo. Murray, and 64, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole. As Midshipman of the, we find him present at the detention of five Dutch men-of-war, together with a large convoy, in Plymouth Sound, 19 Jan. 1795; and, in the course of the same year, assisting at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope. In the America he witnessed the surrender of the Dutch squadron in Bay, 17 Aug. 1796. On the occasion of his promotion, as above, Mr. Phillott joined the bomb, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, with whom he continued cruizing in the Baltic until the close of the following Oct. Being next, 31 Aug. 1802, appointed to the 32, Capts. Thos. Masterman Hardy, Sam. Sutton, and Wm. Hoste, he sailed in that ship for the Mediterranean, in the early part of 1803, with the flag on board of Lord Nelson, and was afterwards afforded an opportunity of participating, more or less prominently, in a train of valuable and distinguished 