man, he accompanied in that capacity the expedition against Copenhagen; during the operations connected with which the Mosquito was stationed in the Belt to prevent supplies being thrown into the island of Zealand. Rejoining Capt. Jackson in Jan. 1808, on board the Superb 74, he proceeded soon afterwards to the Mediterranean in pursuit of a French squadron which had effected its escape from Rochefort; and on his return he sailed with the flag of Rear-Admiral Rich. Goodwin Keats for the Baltic. While there he took part in numerous skirmishes with the enemy’s gun-boats, and assisted in embarking from Nyeborg the Spanish troops under the Marquis de la Romana, who had thrown off the yoke of France. Prior to the latter affair he had been employed with other Midshipmen in landing and bringing off a Spanish officer of rank sent from England to communicate with the patriot General; and had aided in the boats at the capture, with loss to the British, of a Danish brig and cutter, the Fama of 18 and Salorman of 12 guns. While at Gottenborg, in Jan. 1809, the Superb and other ships were frozen up; but by the sole exertions of the crew belonging to the former a passage was cut through three or four miles of ice, and the whole were warped out in safety. Having returned with a convoy of more than 200 sail to England, the Superb, in Aug. 1809, was ordered to join the expedition to the Scheldt; where it appears Mr. Warren shared, in a flat-bottomed boat, in all the operations that took place. On the Superb being paid off, he was received; in Nov. 1809, on board the Désirée 36, Capt. Arthur Farquhar; and in her he was for nearly three years employed off the Texel, the latter part of the time as Master’s Mate. In the boats of the Désirée, accompanied by those of the Quebec 32, Britomart sloop, and Bold gun-brig, all commanded by Lieut. Sam. Radford, he united in an attack made, on the night of 29 May, 1810, on several vessels lying in the Vlie. One of these, a French lugger of 6 guns and 26 men, was driven on shore and burnt, and four (a French lugger of 12 guns and 42 men, a schuyt privateer of 4 guns and 17 men, a Dutch gun-boat, and a small row-boat) were captured and brought out. On 10 March, 1811, the Désirée made prize of the Vélocifère a cutter-privateer of 14 guns and 57 men; and on 12 Dec. following her boats, in one of which was Mr. Warren, boarded and took, again under Lieut. Radford, Le Brave privateer of 14 guns (pierced for 16) and 60 men, near the island of Schelling. Between this period and Sept. 1812, at which period he left the Désirée, Mr. Warren was a participator in other performances of a character similar to those we have here noted. In Jan. 1813 he was again, in the Lacedemonian 38, placed under the command of his former Captain, Jackson, under whom he cruized at first off Cherbourg and saw afterwards much service in the Chesapeake and on other parts of the coast of North America; where he contributed to the capture and destruction of as many as 75 vessels and of property valued at half a million sterling, and was in the boats at the taking of Cumberland Island and the town of St. Mary’s. Among the vessels which he assisted in the boats in capturing, was one carrying a long 32-pounder on a pivot, 2 carronades, and 70 men. We may add that he was at Bermuda in the memorable hurricane of Aug. 1813. After he had acted for nearly four months as a Lieutenant of the Lacedemonian, he was presented, in May, 1815, with a commission bearing date 17 Feb. preceding. His subsequent appointments Here – 6 May, 1824, to the Diamond 46, Capt. Lord Napier, in which frigate he escorted Mr. Morier as Ambassador to Mexico – 11 May, 1825, for a few months, to the Ganges 84, Capt. Patrick Campbell, lying at Portsmouth – 1 Jan. 1827, to the Victory 104, flag-ship at the latter place of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – and 3 Oct. 1829, as First-Lieutenant, to the Winchester 52, fitting for the flag of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West India station. In Dec. 1830 he was nominated Acting-Commander of the Falcon 10, and was sent to the coast of Columbia for the purpose of affording protection to the interests of the British merchants. On rejoining the flag he was superseded, early in 1831, by the officer first on the Admiralty list for promotion; but on 29 March, 1832, he was again ordered to act as Commander in the Rose 18; in which vessel, after having visited Mexico, he arrived in the following Aug. at Sheerness. So well pleased was the Commander-in-Chief at that port, Sir John Poo Beresford, with the manner in which the Rose was paid off, that he wrote a strong letter to the Admiralty in favour of Mr. Warren, who was advanced by their lordships to the rank of Commander 1 March, 1833. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard; in which service he was employed as an Inspecting Commander from 24 June, 1836, until the summer of 1839.
WARREN. (Captain, 1839.)
Richard Laird Warren is eldest son of the late Vice-Admiral Fred. Warren.
This officer entered the Navy 1 Aug. 1822; passed his examination in 1828; obtained his first commission 1 Jan. 1829; was appointed, 18 Aug. following and 20 Nov. 1830, to the Victory 104, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford at Portsmouth, and Sapphire 28, Capt. Hon. Wm. Wellesley, fitting for the West Indies; and from 10 Sept. 1831 until advanced to the rank of Commander, 24 Dec. 1833, was employed in the Isis 50, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father at the Cape of Good Hope. He obtained command, 21 Sept. 1835 and 13 Oct. 1836, of the Snake 16 and Serpent 16, on the North America and West India station; he was superseded from the latter vessel on the occasion of his promotion to Post-rank, 9 May, 1839; and he served next, from 4 Aug. 1841 until paid off at the close of 1843, in the Magicienne 24, on the Mediterranean station. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Warren married, 25 April, 1844, Eleanor Charlotte, second daughter of the late Pelham Warren, Esq., M.D., of Worting House, Hants. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
WARREN, C.B. (Captain, 1841.)
William Warren was born in Jan. 1798.
This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1811, as Midshipman, on board the Loire 38, Capt. Alex. Wilmot Schomberg; under whom he was for some time employed in the same ship and in the York 74. He served afterwards as Master’s Mate in the Antelope 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral John Harvey, Bulwark 74, Capt. Sam. Warren, Gloucester 74, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and in personal command of the Assiduous 3, all on the West India station; where, having displayed much activity in the suppression of piracy, and having passed his examination as far back as 1817, he was made Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1825, into the Britomart 10, Capt. Octavius Vernon Harcourt. Returning to England, we believe, in 1826, he was next, 30 Jan. 1828, appointed to the Grasshopper 18, Capts. Abraham Crawford and Chas. Deare; under the former of whom he again proceeded to the West Indies; on which station we find he assumed command, 31 Aug. 1829, of the Speedwell schooner of 5 guns. In her he made prize, 6 April, and 3 and 25 June, 1832, of three slave vessels, the Planeta, Aquila, and Indagadera; one of whom, the Aquila, was greatly superior in force to the Speedwell, and was not taken until after a well-fought action. For these and other services Mr. Warren was advanced to the rank of Commander 31 Aug. 1832. He was subsequently, 18 July, 1837, appointed to the Hyacinth 18, fitting for the East Indies; whence in 1840 he sailed with the expedition to China. On 7 Jan. 1841 we find him ably seconding the present Sir Thos. Herbert, whose best thanks he obtained for his co-operation in the attack upon Chuenpee.[1] For his zeal in the ensuing March at the capture of Canton, where he
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1162, 1222.
