​CAWLEY. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 22; h-p., 31.)

John Cawley died 30 April, 1846, in his 77th year. He was son of the late Thos. Cawley, Esq., merchant, of Exmouth, co. Devon.

This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1793, as A.B., on board the Vanguard 74, Capt. Hon. Edwin Henry Stanhope, lying in the Downs; removed, as Midshipman, in the following month, to the Prince 98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Geo. Bowyer; and, on subsequently accompanying the latter officer into the Barfleur 98, was present in Earl Howe’s actions of 29 May and 1 June, 1794, on which latter occasion he was slightly wounded. From July, 1794, to May, 1798, he was next employed, as Master’s-Mate, on a voyage of discovery to the Pacific, under Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, of the Providence 16, and, when on shore at the Sandwich Islands, narrowly escaped being murdered by the natives, the rest of his party havuig been all destroyed. After a servitude of two years on board the Suffolk 74, bearing the flag of Admiral Rainier ​