had died of small-pox. The Midas had one of her crew killed, and three wounded; the Monkey not a man hurt; but she, as well as her antagonist, suffered greatly in the hull and rigging. Three English sailors, formerly belonging to a Liverpool vessel wrecked on the above coast, were found in arms on board the slaver, sent home, tried for piracy at the Old Bailey, and condemned to death, but had their sentences commuted to transportation for life.”
Commander Sherer was appointed to the coast guard service at Lymington, Feb. 26th, 1831; and removed to the Weymouth district in Oct. 1832.
JOHN HARVEY BOTELER, Esq.
[Commander.]
A son of the late William Boteler, Esq. F.S.A., of Eastry, co. Kent, by his second wife, Mary, daughter of Captain John Harvey, who commanded the Brunswick 74, and was mortally wounded in Earl Howe’s action, June 1st, 1794[1].
This officer was made a lieutenant on the 19th Sept. 1815 ; and subsequently served under his uncle-in-law, the present Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.B., and Captain (now Rear-Admiral) T. J. Maling, in the Northumberland 78, stationed as a guard-ship in the River Medway. His next appointment was, Dec. 3d, 1822, to the Ringdove sloop. Captain George F. Rich, fitting out for the West India station. He obtained the rank of commander on the 14th Jan. 1830; and married, Aug. 15th, 1832, Helen Agnes, fifth daughter of the late James West, Esq., of Bryanstone Square, London.
PATRICK JOHN BLAKE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 19th July, 1823, and commander Jan. 15th, 1830.
