Spain, July 22d, 1805. We afterwards find him in the Endymion frigate, Captain the Hon. Thomas Bladen Capel, attached to the squadron employed against Constantinople, under Sir John T. Duckworth, in 1807. He passed his examination for lieutenant in July 1808; obtained a commission on the 27th of Jan. 1809; and subsequently served under Captains Pulteney Malcolm, in the Donegal and Royal Oak 74’s; John Sprat Rainier, in the Norge 74; Sir Michael Seymour, in the Hannibal, of similar force; the present Sir George Martin, in the different ships bearing his flag while commander-in-chief on the Lisbon station; and Captain Nathaniel Day Cochrane, in the Orontes frigate.
THOMAS WHITAKER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Lost the sight of an eye while serving as midshipman, occasioned, we have been told, by a biscuit thrown at him while skylarking in the cockpit berth of a 74. He obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 22d Dec. 1809; was fourth of the Kent 74, Captain Thomas Rogers, in one or two slight skirmishes with the Toulon fleet, in 1812; and lost a gallant messmate. Lieutenant Robert Watson, while engaged with the enemy at Ciotat, near Marseilles, June 1st in that year. The Kent having been paid off in Jan. 1813, he was appointed, Sept. 16th following, to the Queen 74, Captain Lord Colville. His commission as commander bears date June 13th, 1815.
HENRY BROWNE MASON, Esq.
[Commander.]
Is of an old Hertfordshire family, and connected with the late Earls of Winchelsea. He was born on the 26th April, 1792.
This officer entered into the royal navy as midshipman on board the Prince 98, Captain Richard Grindall, in Dec. 1803; and served under that officer at the glorious battle of Trafalgar. Subsequent to that great event, he was placed with
