​KING. (Lieutenant, 1846.)

Henry Bartlett King was Midshipman of the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, during the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria. He passed his examination 12 April, 1842; served as Mate in the Daphne 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Cruizer 16, Capt. Edw. Gennys Fanshawe, on the Pacific, Home, and East India stations; obtained his commission 7 Feb. 1846; and on 11 of the same month was appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, also in the East Indies. While in the Cruizer we find him assisting at the destruction, 19 Aug. 1845, by a force under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, the fiercely-defended stronghold of a Borneo chieftain named Scheriff Osman.