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  at Newcastle during the disturbances amongst the keelmen of the river Tyne, in Nov. and Dec. 1822. He was promoted to the command of the Sparrowhawk sloop, July 17th, 1824. 



his examination and was made lieutenant in Feb. 1830. He was appointed, Sept. 11th, 1811, to the Tuscan sloop. Captain George Matthew Jones, on the Mediterranean station, in which vessel he served during the remainder of the war. His promotion to the rank of commander took place on the 10th Aug. 1824. 



his professional career under the auspices of the late Admiral Sir Charles Cotton. He entered the royal navy in 1803, and served his time as midshipman under Sir George Ralph Collier, the Hon. George C. Berkeley, Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, and Captain Thomas Dench. Whilst serving with Sir George Collier, in the Minerva frigate, on the coast of Galicia, he was frequently in action with the enemy’s gun-boats and batteries, as will be seen by the following official letter addressed by that officer to the late Sir Eliab Harvey, Oct 3d, 1806:

“Sir,– To prove in some degree, the general correctness of the information which I communicated to you in my letter of yesterday, I proceeded last night in the cutter, with Lieutenant Menzies, of the marines, followed by the barge, in charge of Lieutenant James, with Mr. Holt, midshipman, and a select party of marines, to reconnoitre the Bay of Rocks, in the hope of falling in with some of the six gun-boats near Carril. After a row of seven hours, we had the good luck to be hailed by one, at anchor within pistol-shot of the shore, attended by a launch with a brass four-pounder; she was immediately boarded on the quarter, and carried, as well as her attendant, without the loss of a single man.