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made a lieutenant in Oct. 1806; and commander on the 31st May, 1814. 



officer’s first commission bears date Jan. 7th, 1802; about which period he was presented with the Turkish gold medal, for his services on the Egyptian coast, during the campaign of 1801. He obtained the rank of commander June 4th, 1814; previous to which he had served as flag-lieutenant to Rear-Admiral (now Sir William) Hargood, on the Guernsey station. 



the royal navy, in Mar. 1800, under the auspices of the late Commissioner George Henry Towry ; and first went to sea in the Thetis frigate. Captain Henry Edward Reginald Baker, under whom he served in the memorable expedition to Egypt. On his return from thence to Malta, he joined the Wassenaer 64, armed en flûte, which ship, commanded, we believe, by Captain John Larmour, was paid off in Sept. 1802. We next find him in the Minotaur 74, Captain John Moore Mansfield, at the capture of la Française, a French 44-gun frigate, May 28th, 1803. He was also on board the same ship at the battle of Trafalgar and siege of Copenhagen; on which latter occasion she bore the flag of Rear-Admiral William Essington.

From the Minotaur, Mr. West was sent, on promotion, to the flag-ship of Admiral Gambier, who soon appointed him sub-lieutenant of the Desperate gun-brig. His first commission bears date Feb. 9th, 1808; from which period he served, for several months, as senior lieutenant of the Fury bomb,