A D D E N D A.
BARNETT—BERKELEY—BOTT—BROWN—BULLEN—CARTHEW—COGHILL.
BARNETT. (Captain, 1846.)
Edward Barnett entered the Navy on board the Sybille 44, Capts. Clotworthy Upton, Jas. Sanders, and Thos. Forrest. He was a Midshipman of the Malta 80, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, at the siege of Gaeta in 1815; and of the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, at the battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He received a vote of thanks from the Bahama Legislature for services rendered, in the Thunder, to that colony. His post commission bears date 20 June, 1846.
BERKELEY. (Captain, 1814.)
Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley commanded the Hercules 74 from 25 March, 1836, until Aug. 1837, on the Lisbon and Home stations.
BOTT. (Lieutenant, 1832.)
George Bott was born, 1 Feb. 1809, in St. James’s Palace. His father, Secretary to the Privy Purse, had been, at the period of his death, for upwards of 25 years in the households of George III and William IV.: his grandfather, a Page to George III., was also for more than 50 years in the household of that monarch.
This officer entered the Navy, 20 Dec. 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ocean 80, Capts. Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman and John Sykes, in which ship, bearing the flag of Lord Amelius Beauclerk off Lisbon, he continued to serve until Oct. 1825 – part of the time as Midshipman. He was employed afterwards on the Home station in the capacity last mentioned and as Mate in the Galatea 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, Undaunted 46, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, Caledonia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Codrington, and Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Thos. Hastings. While on board the Excellent he passed an examination “so creditable” that he received, in consequence, the written thanks of the Lords of the Admiralty. In the Canopus, Donegal, and Britannia, the ships mentioned in the body of the work, he filled the post of Gunnery-Lieutenant. During the nearly nine years that he was so employed he afforded instruction to more than 2000 officers and men. He was Superintendent of Convicts at Norfolk Island from 31 July, 1843, until the establishment was broken up, 31 Aug. 1847.
He married, 16 Aug. 1845, Ellen Australia, daughter of Thos. Carne, Esq., late of the 46th Regiment, and has issue.
BROWN. (Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1846.)
Thomas Brown, when a Lieutenant of the Flora, commanded a gun-launch during the operations in Egypt in 1801, and for his services obtained the Turkish gold medal. In command of the Orestes he was frequently, in 1804-5, in action with the enemy’s flotilla between Dunkerque, Calais, and Boulogne. On one occasion he captured two armed schuyts; and on another he engaged and drove into port in a sinking state a praam of 18 guns, bearing the flag of a Rear-Admiral, and at the time in company with many other vessels. In July, 1805, he volunteered to endeavour to discover a passage for leading a British squadron into Dunkerque. While he was so employed the Orestes, at the commencement of an ebb-tide, took the ground on the Bree-Sand. The enemy’s shot soon passing through her hull, and their flotilla dropping down, it was found necessary to blow her up, to prevent her from falling into their hands. In the Solebay Capt. Brown, in 1808, chased a French frigate into Cherbourg; and in the Vengeur, in 1811, he united with the Venerable 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham, in driving into the same port two line-of-battle ships and a frigate. The Loire, while he was in her, compelled the American ship President to put into New York, twice engaged Commodore Barney’s flotilla of gunboats in the Patuxent, and was otherwise actively employed both in that river and the Potomac under Sir Geo. Cockburn. During his stay in the Chesapeake Capt. Brown, on more occasions than one, landed with the seamen and marines. From the early part of 1837 until he was promoted to Flag-rank he filled the appointment of extra Naval Aide-de-Camp to His late and Her present Majesty.
BULLEN. (Admiral of the White, 1841.)
Joseph Bullen. The Hinchinbroke, in the expedition to Fort St. Juan, lost, out of a crew of 235 men, all but 27, in the short space of six weeks, owing to the unhealthiness of the climate.
CARTHEW. (Vice-Admiral, of the Red, 1841.)
James Carthew commanded the Gloire at the blockade of Cherbourg, at the destruction of the French 40-gun frigates Loire and Seine and of the batteries at Ance la Barque, Guadeloupe, and at the taking of the latter island.
COGHILL. (Rear-Admiral of the Red.)
Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill assisted, as we have stated, at the cutting out of the Prima galley. The particulars of that exploit will be found alluded to more fully in our memoir of Capt. Geo. Scott. Sir Josiah was in the Haerlem at the evacuation of Genoa by the French and at the surrender of Malta to the British: in command of the same ship’s tender he carried from Smyrna despatches (received overland from Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, who was at St. Jean d’Acre) to Lord Keith, at Malta. The Africaine, which ship he fitted out as Senior Lieutenant at Minorca immediately after her capture from the French, was commanded at first by Capt. Geo. Burlton. He joined the Rattlesnake at the Cape ot Good Hope and took despatches in her to the East Indies. The Malay vessel which he attacked mounted 8 guns with a complement of about 125 men: she exploded while the British were on board. The latter, out of 22, had 16 killed and wounded; the enemy were all destroyed. Serving with Capt. Coghill on this occasion were the present Retired Commanders Arthur Davies and Robt John Fayrer. When in company, in the same sloop, with the Terpsichore frigate, Capt. Walter Bathurst, he annihilated a fleet of 92 proas, carrying
