cruize off the coast of Ireland, where he contributed, we find, to the capture, among other vessels, of the Prince Murat privateer of 18 guns and 127 men and Pandour national brig of 18 guns and 114 men. After serving for nine months in the Centaur 74, as Flag-Lieutenant of Sir Sam. Hood, who had been sent with a squadron to cruize among the Western Islands, Mr. Warde sailed in the Recruit sloop, Capt. Hon. Warwick Lake, for the West Indies. On his arrival he was received by Sir Alex. Cochrane (to whom also he soon became Flag-Lieutenant) on board the Belleisle 74. He beheld in that ship the surrender of the Danish islands of St. Thomas and Ste. Croix; and in June, 1808, he was promoted by the Commander-in-Chief into the Hippomenes 18, at Barbadoes. He had been made Commander by the Admiralty, 29 April preceding, into the Julia 16; but before he could receive intelligence of the event he had been ordered in the Hippomenes with convoy to England. This was a source of mortification to Capt. Warde, as the latter was old and defective, and the Julia perfectly new. Having paid the Hippomenes off about Sept. 1808, he remained thenceforward unemployed until appointed 9 June, 1810, to the Banterer 14; which vessel, although he attained Post-rank 18 Sept. 1815, he continued to command until July, 1816. During the three first years he was employed under Commodore E. W. C. R. Owen on the harassing and dangerous service of blockading the entrance of the Scheldt; and in March, 1814, when the Antelope 50, in forcing the Hondt passage, grounded within range of the Flushing batteries he obtained the official notice of her Captain, Sam. Butcher, for exertions he used in endeavouring to rescue her from her perilous position. Subsequently to the grand review held before the allied sovereigns at Spithead, the {sc|Banterer}} was ordered off Brighton to attend upon the Prince Regent. She served next on the Irish station and on the coast of Scotland, and was then ordered to the Mediterranean. In Dec. 1815, having conveyed Lord Exmouth to Civita Vecchia, Capt. Warde accompanied him thence on a diplomatic mission to Rome, returning with his Lordship in the following month to Leghorn. Conceiving that the demands about to be made at this period on the Barbary states might lead to hostilities. Lord Exmouth, who had remarked the discrepancies existing in the various charts of Algiers, directed Capt. Warde to proceed to that place and to take a plan of the sea-defences, and of the soundings round the sea-face of the city and mole, with such secrecy as not to betray either to the Dey, the British Consul, or even his own officers, the least idea of the object he had in view. The manner in which this difficult service was performed excited, we can only add, the expressed admiration of the noble chief. On a subsequent occasion when the Dey, under the penalty of an immediate attack, was required to return within two hours an answer to certain demands made upon him by his lordship, Capt. Warde and his friend Capt. Sam. Geo. Pechell of the Clorinde 40, happening to be on shore at the Consul’s country-house, were seized and carried to the market-place. Their hands, which had been tied behind them, were then released and they were conducted presently before the Dey, who, fearing that his detention of them might be construed into an act of hostility, sent them ultimately off in a small boat to their own ships, with a seaman who had been likewise detained. After visiting different ports for the purpose of collecting freight, the Banterer[1] returned to England and was paid off, as above. Unsuccessful in his efforts to procure further employment Capt. Warde accepted the retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
A more extended account than we have been here able to give of Capt. Warde’s services before Algiers may be found in Ostler’s ‘Life of Exmouth.’ On the attention of his late Majesty William IV. being drawn to them by his old Captain, Sir Edw, Owen, he was pleased to confer on him, 1 Jan. 1837, the insignia of a K.H. For some years prior to 1839 the Captain acted as a Magistrate for co. Glamorgan. He married, 15 Jan. 1824, Marianna, eldest daughter of the late Arthur Wm. Gregory, Esq., of Veranda, near Swansea, by whom he has issue three sons and six daughters.
WARDEN. (Captain, 1845. f-p., 20; h-p., 7.)
Frederick Warden was born 18 Nov. 1807.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 1 June, 1820; and embarked, 1 June, 1822, as a Volunteer, on board the Espiègle 18. He was employed next, from 23 of the same month until 17 Oct. 1825, as Admiralty-Midshipman, in the Phaeton 46, Capts. Wm. Augustus Montagu and Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, on the Home, West India, and Mediterranean stations; and from 21 Oct. 1825 until 25 Oct. 1827, as Admiralty-Midshipman and Mate (he passed his examination 4 July, 1827), in the Volage 28 and Blanche 46, Capts. Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas and Wm. Bowen Mends, in the East Indies and South America. The Phaeton was attached to the blockading force before Algiers during the dispute with the Dey in 1824. In Jan. 1828 Mr. Warden joined, as Admiralty-Mate, the Isis 50, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, in the Mediterranean; and on 18 Sept. following he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were, 16 March, 1831, and 31 May, 1834, to the Barham 60, Capt. Sir Hugh Pigot, and Thalia 46, flag-ship of Sir Patrick Campbell – the former on the Mediterranean, the latter on the Cape of Good Hope station, where he continued employed as First-Lieutenant until 1838. On the Thalia being paid off he was promoted, 6 June in that year, to the rank of Commander. From 12 Aug. 1840, until 15 May, 1845, Capt. Warden served in the Medea steamer, on his old station the Mediterranean. At first he was engaged in the operations on the coast of Syria and at the blockade of Alexandria. On 20 Nov. 1840 the accidental explosion of a shell wounded him badly in the right hand and arm. He afterwards commanded an expedition sent to the river Xanthus to collect the antiquities known as the “Xanthian Marbles,” and now in the British Museum. For this service he received the public thanks of the Admiralty and of the Trustees of the Museum. He attained his present rank 24 July, 1845, and has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Warden married, 14 July, 1846, Ellen, youngest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Henry Garrett, of Anglesey. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
WARDEN. (Retired Commander, 1837.)
William Warden entered the Navy, in Oct. 1779, as Midshipman, on board the Wells cutter, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Warden, stationed in the Downs. In Sept. 1780 he removed to the Belliqueux 64, Capts. Fitzherbert, Brine, Lord Cranstoun, and Sutherland; under the last-mentioned of whom he fought in Rodney’s action 12 April, 1782. During his passage home in the course of the same year with Capt. J. Bourchier, in the Hector 74, one of the prizes taken on the latter occasion, he encountered a furious hurricane, in which the ship foundered, barely affording time for her crew to be rescued by a letter-of-marque in company. He served subsequently in the Princess Royal 98, Capt. Jonathan Faulknor, Hector, Capt. Sir John Hamilton, Saldanha cutter, and Melpomène 38, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton; and on 22 Feb. 1796 he was made Lieutenant into the Adamant 50, Capt. Darby. In that ship, the Defence 74, Capt. Wells, and San Ysidora, Capt. Williams, he was for about two years stationed oif Lisbon. Unable afterwards to go afloat, he was allowed to command a Signal-post on the coasts of Essex and Sussex. He was placed on the Junior list of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 30 March, 1837.
Commander Warden is married and has issue.
- ↑ The Banterer was never commanded by any other officer than Capt. Warde. When he was appointed to her she was new, and when he left her she was sold.
