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958 RAWLE. 

was born 26 May, 1782 uncle of

This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1798, as A.B., on board the hired tender, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Jennis, under whom we find him employed in raising seamen and volunteers for the fleet, and carrying them from Bristol to Plymouth. On being paid off in June, 1799, he became Midshipman (a rating he had previously attained) of the 74, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy and Joseph Sydney Yorke, attached to the Channel fleet, with which he continued until May, 1802. In March, 1806, he rejoined the officer last mentioned on board the 98, also stationed in the Channel; and he was next, in June, 1807, and May, 1808, nominated Master’s Mate of the  40 and  80, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Sir J. S. Yorke, employed on the coast of Ireland and off Ushant. He was made Lieutenant, 20 April, 1809, into the 80, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Hon. Robt. Stopford and Wm. Albany Otway; and subsequently appointed – 14 May, 1810, to the sloop, Capts. Thos. Folliott Baugh and Wm. Ffarington, engaged in convoying the trade between Leith and Gottenborg, and in cruising off the coast off Norway and among the Orkney and Shetland Isles – 2 Nov. 1812 (nearly six months after ill health had obliged him to leave the Cuo), to the 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye, lying at Plymouth – 10 Dec. following, to the 38, Capts. Philip Somerville and John Pasco – and, 2 Dec. 1815, to the 20, also commanded, on the Plymouth station, by Capt. Pasco. Accompanying in the the expedition of 1809 to the Scheldt, Mr. Rawle served on shore with a party of seamen, and assisted in erecting and working the batteries during the bombardment of Flushing. The Walcheren fever, in the month of Oct., compelled him to invalid. While attached to the he escorted convoy to and from Quebec and also to the West Indies, where he cruised With much activity. On 26 Sept. 1814 he participated in an unsuccessful attempt made to cut out from the road of Fayal the American privateer General Armstrong, a vessel whose resistance killed 34 and wounded 86 of her assailants, consisting originally of about 180 seamen and marines. Among the wounded was Lieut. Rawle. He was under the necessity, when afterwards serving in the, of being sent to the Naval Hospital at Stonehouse, 2 April, 1817. He accepted his present rank 9 April, 1847.

He married 23 Jan. 1822, and has issue one son.

 RAWLINS. 

is the son of a Purser in the Royal Navy, now deceased. This officer entered the Navy, 11 June, 1793, as a Boy, on board the 24, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Davidge Gould; and in the following Sept. was discharged, at his own request, in consequence of some severe injuries he had sustained in falling into the main hold. In Dec. 1800 he again embarked, as Midshipman, on board the, Lieut.-Commanders Wetherstone and Murray, lying at Portsmouth; in the early part of 1802 he sailed in the store-ship, Capt. Wm. Kent, for New Holland; and in Feb. 1804 (a few months after he had returned to England in the 50, Capt. Jas. Collnett) he joined the  64, Capt. Chas. Rowley. In a boat belonging to that ship he participated in an attempt made to cut out a large Dutch sloop-of-war, the Texel, from the neighbourhood of Cadiz, where, on a subsequent occasion, he contributed, also in the boats, to the eapture of three merchant-vessels. In one instance he was sent to Gibraltar in charge of several prizes, seven of which were lost in a gale. He afterwards visited the North Sea; and in Nov. 1805, while on his passage in the 10, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Innes, to join the 74, was wrecked on the coast of France. In spite of all his endeavours to escape he remained a prisoner until May, 1814. He afterwards served on the coast of Ireland in the 74, Capt. Peter Heywood, and at Sheerness in the  74, flag-ship of Sir C. Rowley; obtained, 1 Feb. 1815, a Lieutenant’s commission; was employed duripg three months of the same year in the  bomb, Capt. Sam. Roberts, and 74, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley; and in 1824 was appointed to the Coast Guard, from which service he was, in 1827, after nearly two months of deliberation, dismissed by sentence of court-martial for having been off his station. In consequence of this he addressed a letter, containing an explanation of the circumstances, to the Admiralty, the result of which was that by return of post he was appointed Third-Lieutenant of the 74. From that ship he removed, by exchange, to the command, which he retained about 18 months, of a station in the Coast Blockade. He was then, in consequence of ill health produced by the fatigues of the service, sent to the hospital at Chatham; and he has not been since employed.

The Lieutenant is married, and has one son, a Clerk in the service. – Messrs. Chard.

 RAWLINS. 

entered the Navy, 18 Sept. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Geo. Duff, part of the force engaged in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. On 30 of that month he removed to the 36, Capts. Hon. Henry Blackwood and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, employed off Cadiz and in the Channel; and in April, 1806, he joined the 74, Capts. John Pilfold and Hon. H. Blackwood. On the destruction of that ship by fire off the island of 14 Feb. 1807, he was received as Midshipman on board the  38, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, under whom we find him accompanying Sir John Duckworth in the ensuing passage of the Dardanells. In the course of the same and of the following year he became attached in succession to the bomb, bearing the flag of Sir Alex. John Ball at Malta, 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell (in which he returned to England),, flag-ship of Admiral Montagu at Spithead, and 74, commanded by his old Captain, Blackwood. In the latter ship, after serving for a time in the North Sea and Channel, he again proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, on 20 July, 1810, he took part in a very gallant skirmish, in which the British, with a slender force, beat back a powerful division of the French Toulon fleet. On 26 Sept. 1811 Mr. Rawlins was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted for three months as such) in the 74, Capt. Joshua Rowley Watson. He came home in the autumn of 1812; and was lastly, from 28 June, 1813, until Sept. 1815, employed on the coasts of North America and France in the 40, Capt. Joseph Nourse. While on the former station he co-operated in the attacks upon Washington and Baltimore in Aug. and Sept. 1814; assisted, 13 Jan. 1815, at the reduction of St. Mary’s, a town near Point Petre, on the coast of Georgia; and contributed to the capture of two privateer schooners and a letter-of-marque, carrying in the whole 22 guns and 241 men.

 RAWLINSON. 

, born 9 March, 1788, is second son of Wm. Rawlinson, Esq., of Ancoats Hall, Manchester.

This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1804, as a Volunteer, on board the 36, flag-ship of Sir Alan Gardner at Cork; and removed a short time afterwards to the  38, Capts. Willoughby Thos. Lake and Anselm John Griffiths, with whom he continued employed as Midshipman, on the coast of Ireland, among the Western Islands, and on the North American station, until transferred, about April, 1807, to the 74,