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French fleet off Toulon, besides assisting as junior Aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, at the reduction of Genoa, in April of the latter year. He next served, from June, 1814, until wrecked, in a hurricane, near Smyrna, 20 Feb. 1816, on board the Cossack 28, Capt. Lord Algernon Percy, in North America, Philomel 18, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, lying at Plymouth, and Phoenix 42, Capt. Chas. John Austen. We then find him doing duty for three years in the Albion 74, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose; and, on returning to North America in 1819, in the Newcastle 60, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, selected to command the Jane tender. He passed his examination 15 Aug. 1819; was subsequently, on reaching England in the summer of 1822, again employed for a short time in the Albion, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, at Portsmouth; and, on next proceeding to the West Indies, in the Isis 50, with the flag flying of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, was appointed, 6 June, 1824, to the command of the Speedwell schooner of 5 guns, in which he appears to have been actively employed against the pirates of Cuba. Mr. Castle, who was promoted into the Helicon 10, Capt. Thos. Fisher, 25 Aug. 1824, afterwards joined in succession, almost invariably as First Lieutenant, the Beaver 10, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, Isis, as before. Rose 20, Capt. Wm. Benj. Suckling, Sybille 48, Commodore Sir Fras. Augustus Collier, Atholl 28, Capt. Alex. Gordon, and Dryad 42, Commodore John Hayes – the three last on the coast of Africa; where, in charge of the Black Joke and Fair Rosamond tenders, and otherwise, we find he contributed to the liberation of many thousand slaves. After holding the acting-command, for some months, of the Medina 20, on the same station, Lieut. Castle obtained a second promotal commission, dated 29 Oct. 1831; subsequently to which he joined – 15 Feb. 1834, the Salamander steam-vessel, employed on Channel service – 4 Aug, 1835, the Pylades 18, again on the African station, where he had the good fortune to emancipate a thousand negroes, and to render such essential benefit to trade as to elicit the thanks of the merchants of Liverpool – and, in Nov. 1840, to the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, fitting at Portsmouth, which last appointment, in consequence of disease induced by his long servitude on the coast of Africa, he was compelled to resign. He attained Post-rank 23 Nov. 1841; and is at present on half-pay.
He married, first, 2 April, 1835, Emma, third daughter of Capt. Sir John Hill, R.N., Kt. That lady dying 25 Oct. 1837, he espoused, secondly, 7 July, 1841, Elizabeth Allen, only daughter of Commander Robt. M‘Coy, R.N., by whom he has issue two children. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
CASWELL. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 26; h-p., 13.)
George Caswell entered the Navy, 24 May, 1808, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the Parthian 10, Capts. John Balderson, Rich. Harward, and Hon. Henry Dawson, in which vessel we find him, in the course of the same year, sharing in an action with three men-of-war – assisting next at the capture, 5 May, 1809, of La Nouvelle Gironde, a noted privateer, of 14 guns and 58 men – and employed, subsequently, at the bombardment of Flushing. Having attained the rating of Midshipman, 4 April, 1810, he removed, in Nov. following, to the Christian VII. 80, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship and the, Caledonia 120, on the North Sea and Mediterranean stations, until Sept. 1814. During that period he partook of the two slight encounters, of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814, with the French fleet near Toulon – and served on shore at the reduction of Genoa. After a further attachment to the Prince Frederick, Capt. Rich. Pridham, receiving-sloop at Plymouth, and to the Malta 80, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie, and Boyne 98, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, both on the Mediterranean station, Mr. Caswell was promoted, 24 Sept. 1815, to a Lieutenancy in the Minstrel 20, Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch, in which he returned home and was paid off in the ensuing December. His subsequent appointments were – 28 Dec. 1824, to the Champion 18, Capt. John Fitz-Gerald Studdert, with whom he served, as First Lieutenant, during the Burmese war – 17 Nov. 1829, and 1 May, 1830, to the Victory 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, and St. Vincent 120, Capt. Hyde Parker, at Portsmouth – 23 March and 16 Dec. 1831, as Senior, to the Pallas 42, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, in the West Indies, and Madagascar 46, Capt. Edmund Lyons, in the Mediterranean – 25 Nov. 1834, to the Coast Guard – 13 Nov. 1841, again as Senior, to the Gorgon steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, on the Mediterranean station – and, 23 April, 1842, in a similar capacity, to the Cleopatra 26, Capt. Christ. Wyvill, at the Cape of Good Hope. He continued in the latter vessel until promoted to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.
Commander Caswell married Louisa, daughter of Commander Benj. Leigh, R.N., by whom he has issue. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
CASWELL. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 12; h-p., 22.)
Thomas Caswell entered the Navy, 15 May, 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amphion 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart, John Brett Purvis, and Wm. Bowles, with whom he successively served, latterly as Midshipman, off Bermuda and on the Home station, where we believe he assisted at the capture of the islands of Schouwen and Tholen, until Oct. 1815. He then sailed for the East Indies in the Magicienne 36, flag-ship of Sir Rich. King, and on his return to England, in Aug. 1819, was appointed to the Coast Blockade, as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Severn 50, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. Having obtained his commission, 3 March, 1820, Mr. Caswell was again employed on the latter service, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, from 13 Feb. 1829, until some time in the following year. He afterwards, on 31 March, 1832, obtained a command in the Coast Guard; but has been on half-pay since 1835. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
CASWELL. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
William Caswell entered the Navy, in Sept. 1805, as A.B., on board the Fox 32, Capts. Wm. Hugh Dobbie, Hon. Arch. Cochrane, Henry Hart, and Wm. Wells, on the East India station, where he remained until his return home in Oct. 1814; previous to which he had been taken prisoner, as Midshipman, in a conflict with the Malays, and detained a prisoner among them from Sept. 1807 to April, 1808 – and had commanded the Fox’s barge at the capture, 23 March, 1809, of La Caravanne French privateer, of 8 guns and 100 men, under the batteries of Sappara. In Nov. 1811, he joined, as Master’s Mate, the Maidstone 36, Capt. Geo. Burdett – and, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, commanded her launch at the capture of a privateer of 5 guns and 59 men. For his subsequent conduct, on 3 Aug. 1812, at the taking, in the Bay of Fundy, of the American Revenue-cutter Commodore Barry, of 6 guns, by the boats of the Maidstone, of one of which he again had charge, Mr. Caswell was appointed, 26 April, 1813, Acting-Lieutenant of the Spartan 38, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, and, on 13 Nov. following, was confirmed into the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd. He was afterwards, on 26 Sept. 1814, wounded in a sanguinary attack on the American privateer General Armstrong. On his return home, after visiting the West Indies,[1] he joined, 7 Sept. 1815, the Superb 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, one of Lord Exmouth’s ships at the bombardment of Algiers, in which he continued until paid off in Oct. 1818. He was subsequently appointed – 23 Nov. 1820, to the Surinam sloop, Capt. Wm. M‘Kenzie Godfrey, on the Jamaica station – in Nov. 1821, as First Lieutenant, to the Bann 20, Capt. Chas. Phillips, on the coast of
- ↑ See Lieut. Thomas Heales.
