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 America, a period of more than sixteen years, Sir George Augustus Westphal was not on shore altogether six weeks. He has been under the enemy’s fire, in engagements of various kinds, upwards of one hundred times; he has been thrice wounded; and his gallant conduct in battle has been eight times noticed in gazetted despatches.

Agents.– Sir F. M. Ommanney & Son.



 Fellow of the Royal and Linnaean Societies; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of London; and a Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society.

officer’s father, the late Captain Phillip Gidley King, R.N., was many years Lieutenant-Governor, and for six years Governor, of New South Wales. He obtained post rank in 1798, and died at Lower Tooting, co. Surrey, Sept. 3d, 1808.

Mr. Phillip Parker King was born at Norfolk Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, Dec. 13th, 1791; and entered the navy as midshipman on board the Diana frigate. Captain (afterwards Commodore) Charles Grant, Nov. 25th, 1807. In the following year, he “well supported” the first lieutenant of that ship, in an attack made by her boats upon a French convoy between Nantz and Rochfort. In Oct. 1810, he quitted the Diana, and proceeded, in the Hibernia 120, to the Mediterranean, where he successively joined the Centaur, Cumberland, and Armada, 74’s, the latter commanded by Captain Grant, with whom he continued until the completion of his time, when he was received on board the Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Edward Pellew (now Viscount Exmouth) commander-in-chief on that station, who promoted him into the Trident 64, guard-ship at Malta, Feb.