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POST CAPTAINS OF 1827.
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on the Mediterranean station, Nov. 27th, 1817; to the Glasgow 50, Captain the Hon,. Anthony Maitland, Dec. 8th, 1818.; and to command the Larne sloop, Dec. 7th, 1819. He returned home, Sept. 25th, 1822; and his next appointment was, March 30th, 1826, to the Heron 18, fitting out for the South American station; where he was removed, pro tempore, to the Volage 28, in March 1827. He obtained the rank of captain on the 17th of the following month; and returned to England, passenger on board the Blossom 24, Captain F. W. Beechey, in Sept. 1828.

Agent.– J. Dufaur, Esq.



CHARLES HALLOWELL CAREW, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1827.]

Eldest son of Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew, K.C.B. by a daughter of the late Commissioner Inglefield, R.N.

This officer obtained his first commission on the 30th of Aug. 1820; and subsequently served as flag-lieutenant to his father, at Chatham. He was made a commander, Aug. 3d, 1824; appointed to the Cadmus sloop, on the Plymouth station, April 8th, 1826; and advanced to the rank of captain, April 17th, 1827. Mrs. Carew, to whom he was united in June, 1828, is the daughter of Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, R.N., C.B.




CHARLES GRENVILLE RANDOLPH, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1827.]

Entered the royal navy, in 1806, as midshipman on board the Donegal 74, Captain (now Sir Pulteney) Malcolm, under whom he continued to serve for nearly five years, principally on the Channel station. In 1808, he witnessed the landing of the British army, under Sir Arthur Wellesley (now Duke of Wellington) on the shores of Portugal; and in Feb. 1809, the destruction of three French frigates, in the Sable d’Ollone; on which occasion the Donegal had seven men killed and