his leg in this business, but from the nature of such a service it will strike you with astonishment, that this was the only casualty, although the hull, sails, and rigging was very much damaged. I am, &c.
(Signed)“Henry Carew.”
We have already intimated, that the Admiralty, from a high sense of Lieutenant Carew’s officer-like conduct and spirited exertions, were pleased to grant him promotion. His advancement to the rank of commander took place June 27th, 1797, at which period he had been eighteen years a commissioned officer. He was then appointed to the Swan sloop, on the North Sea station; where, in August following, he captured the Dutch privateer Goede Verwatging, of 8 guns and 28 men.
Commander Carew’s next appointment was, in 1800, to the Pheasant sloop, on the Halifax station; from whence he returned home with despatches, Aug. 22d, 1803. In the summer of the ensuing year, ill health obliged him to retire from active service; and the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital was granted to him, k» Dec. 1819.
This officer married Elizabeth Maria, eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Fownes, of Kittery Court, co. Devon; which lady died on the 4th Aug. 1831, in her 65th year.
NICHOLAS KEMPE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Entered the royal navy in 1769; obtained his first commission in 1780; and served as second lieutenant of the Inflexible 64, Captain the Hon. J. Chetwynd, in the last action between Sir Edward Hughes and Mons. de Suffrein, fought off Cuddalore, June 20th, 1783[1]. He was promoted to the command of the Princess 26, on the Cape of Good Hope station, July 14th, 1797; a»d lastly employed in the Sea-Fencible service, between Flamborough Head and the River Tees. He appears to have died in the summer of 1829.
