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made a lieutenant in Aug. 1808; and commander on the 27th Aug. 1814. 



son of the late Colonel Charles Handfield, of Hermitage, near Lucan, Dublin, twenty-four years commissary-general of Ireland, whose father, Lieut -Colonel John Handfield, commanded the 40th regiment of foot at the siege of Louisbourg, in 1758.

This officer passed his examination, at Portsmouth, in Mar. 1811; obtained his first commission in Aug. following; served as lieutenant under Captains Clotworthy Upton and the Hon. Fleetwood B. R Pellew, in the Junon and Revolutionnaire frigates, on the Halifax and Mediterranean stations; and was promoted to the commaand of tue Jaseur sloop, in South America, Aug. 1826. He is now Inspecting commander of the coast guard, at Dundalk, in Ireland. 



the royal navy in Nov. 1801; and served until June 1804, under Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral) the Hon. Francis F. Gardner, in the Princess Charlotte 38, Kiiby 64, and Gelykhied 68, on the Irish and North Sea stations. The former ship bore the flag of the first Lord Gardner, at Cork, during the peace of Amiens, and was subsequently recommissioned by his son, with whom Mr. Jervois sailed for Jamaica in Sept. 1804. Whilst on that station, he assisted at the capture of numerous valuable Spanish merchant vessels and a French privateer brig, le Regulus, of fourteen guns and eighty four men.

The Princess Charlotte was next ordered to the Leeward Islands, where, Captain Gardner having invalided, Mr. 