WILLAUMETZ, Jean-Baptiste Philibert (veei-o-metz), Count, French naval officer, born in Belle-Isle-en-Mer, 7 August, 1763; died in Suresnes, near Paris, 17 May, 1845. He entered the French navy in 1777, was with D'Estaing at Savannah in 1779, and De Grasse at Yorktown in October, 1781, and in the engagements with Lord Rodney off Dominica, 9 and 12 April, 1782. He served afterward in the Indian ocean. In 1802 he commanded the " Hercule" in Leclerc's expedition to Santo Domingo, and as commander of the station south of Mole St. Nicolas held in check the insurgents, whom, despite his instructions, he treated with humanity, trod refused to cause the prisoners to be WILLCOX shot. After his promotion to rear-admiral he sailed on 14 December, 1805, with a division for Cayenne, Jerome Napoleon serving under him as post-captain. He pillaged the coast of British Guiana, and then turned to the north, his instructions being to destroy the cod-fisheries along the coast of Newfoundland; but on 20 August, 1806, the fleet was struck by a hurricane, which dismasted and dispersed all the vessels. Two were sunk near the coast of South Carolina, and two others reached Chesapeake bay, where they were condemned and sold. Jerome Napoleon sailed for France, and the admiral, with his remaining two ships, put into Havana for repairs. Here he received orders to abandon the expedition to Newfoundland, and to return to Brest. He was made a count by Napoleon, vice-admiral by Louis XVIII., and in 1832 retired and was created a peer of France. He published " Dictionnaire de marine" (2 vols., Parts, 1820).