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promoted to the command of the Transfer sloop, Dec. 24th, 1798; and subsequently appointed to the Vesuvius bomb. He died in 1830. 



as first lieutenant of the Leviathan 74, Commodore John T. Duckworth; and brought home that officer’s despatches announcing the reduction of Minorca, for which he was made a commander, Dec. 24th, 1798. During part of the late war, he held a command in the Swansea district of Sea-Fencibles. 



native of Limerick, and son of Francis Compton, Esq., by Miss Widenham, one of whose brothers was an alderman of that city.

This officer was born in 1774, and received the naval part of his education at an academy near Deptford, conducted by Lieutenant Lane, who had accompanied the immortal Cook in one or two of his voyages round the globe. Amongst his school-fellows were the present Vice-Admiral Fleeming and the late Captain James Moutray, who was killed in a battery at the siege of Calvi.

Mr. Compton entered the service as midshipman on board the Cumberland 74, Captain (afterwards Admiral) Macbride, but first went to sea in the Actaeon 44, armed en flûte, commanded by the present Vice-Admiral Joseph Hanwell, and employed in conveying troops to and from the West Indies. On the breaking out of the French revolutionary war, he joined the Romulus 36, Captain John Sutton, then about to sail for the Mediterranean, where he arrived in time to witness the occupation of Toulon; after which he was obliged