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  made Lieutenant early in 1793; Commander May 8, 1804; and Post-Captain, Aug. 12, 1812.



 son of the late Rev. Charles Chambers, rector of South Kilworth, Leicestershire, and a magistrate of that county.

This officer was born May 25, 1782; and he appears to have entered the navy in Aug. 1794, as a midshipman, on board the Orion, third rate. Captain John T. Duckworth, with whom he subsequently proceeded to the Jamaica station, in the Leviathan 74, which ship formed part of the squadron under Rear-Admiral William Parker, and sustained a loss of 5 men killed and 12 wounded, at the unsuccessful attack upon Leogane, St. Domingo, Mar. 22, 1796.

In July, 1798, Mr. Chambers was appointed acting Lieutenant of the Seahorse frigate, Captain Edward James Foote, on the Mediterranean station. While serving under that officer, he was very actively employed, and on one occasion wounded, in a boat affair, on the coast of Italy. We next find him accompanying Rear-Admiral Duckworth, in the Leviathan, to the Leeward Islands, where he was promoted into the Diana 38, Captain John Poo Beresford, in July, 1800.

After a service of three years and six months, under Captains Beresford and T. J. Maling, the greater part thereof as first Lieutenant, Mr. Chambers left the Diana, and again joined his early patron, by whom he was advanced to the rank of Commander, in the Port Mahon brig, at Jamaica, June 6, 1804.

In the course of the ensuing three years. Captain Chambers captured, recaptured, and destroyed, at least fifty vessels; among which were El Galgo Spanish packet, the Aranzaza