the Royal William 84, flag-ship at Spithead, May 25th, 1807.
This officer was wounded on board the Monarch 74, Captain James Robert Mosse, at the battle of Copenhagen, April 2d, 1801; and wrecked in the Magnificent 74, Captain William Henry Jervis, near Brest, March 25th, 1804; on which latter occasion eighty-six of his shipmates were taken prisoners. He obtained the rank of lieutenant in May, 1801; and served for several years, previous to and since the peace, as first of the Elephant and Queen 74’s, the former ship commanded by the present Rear-Admiral Austen, in the North Sea and Baltic; the latter bearing the flag of the late Sir Charles V. Penrose, on the Mediterranean station. His commission as commander bears date Nov. 7th, 1816.
JOHN PAYNTER, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained his first commission in Aug. 1810; served as flag-lieutenant to LordExmouth, in 1815; and was advanced to his present rank, Nov. 7th, 1815.
LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq.
[Commander.]
Son of a Greenock merchant, and first cousin to Thomas Campbell, Esq. the celebrated poet. This officer was made a lieutenant on the 7th Jan. 1802; and appears to have served successively as first of the Ville de Paris 110, Captain (afterwards Sir George) Burlton, on the Mediterranean station; Stirling Castle 74, Captain Sir Home Popham, employed in conveying the late Marquis of Hastings from England to Bengal; and Cornwallis 74, bearing the flag of Sir George Burlton, when commander-in-chief in the East Indies. He obtained the rank of commander on the 15th Nov. 1816; and died at Bothwell Mount Cottage, near Glasgow, In Aug. 1825. His brother, Robert Campbell, Esq. was made a commander in 1821.
