conveyance of troops. In the latter ship he successively visited Lisbon, Alicant, Palermo, Zante, Ponza, Santander, Cronstadt, and Dantzic. The Leyden was paid off in Dec. 1814.
From this period Captain Davie remained on half-pay until Nov. 6, 1816, when he was appointed to the Conqueror 74, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Plamplin, with whom he proceeded to St. Helena, where he contracted an illness which only ended with his life. He died at Heavitree, near Exeter, Feb. 13, 1825, after a continued indisposition of more than six years.
The subject of the foregoing sketch was the author of a popular little work, entitled “Observations and Instructions for the use of the Commissioned, the Junior, and other Officers of the Royal Navy, on all the material points of Professional Duty,” with a complete set of forms for Watch, Station, and Quarter Bills; published by Steel, in 1804, and the merit of it erroneously given to Sir Home Popham.
Captain Davie married, Feb. 6, 1815, Miss J. Tappen, of Charles Street, Haymarket, London; by whom he has left a son and a daughter. His eldest brother, Joseph, assumed the patronymic of Bassett, on succeeding to the estate of his maternal uncle, Francis Bassett, of Heanton Court, near Barnstaple, Esq. and has long been a very active magistrate for the county of Devon[1]. His second brother, Charles, is one of the Prebendaries of Exeter cathedral.
HENRY HUME SPENCE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1809.]
Nearly related to the late Rear-Admiral Thomas Lenox Frederick, of whom a memoir is given in the Naval Chronicle, Vol.37, pp. 265 et seq. and 353 et seq.
This officer received his first commission in 1797, and was senior Lieutenant of the London 98, at the capture of Rear-Admiral Linois[2]. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place May 28, 1806.
- ↑ Francis Bassett, Esq. was the elder branch of Lord de Dunstanville’s family.
- ↑ See Vol. I., p. 436.
