The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

THE NAVY GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS.

The captains' good service pensions, relinquished on
the promotion of Rear Admirals Walcot and Plumridge,
have been conferred on two of the senior officers on the
captains' list—namely, Captain Percy Grace (1852), and
Captain Char es Howe Fremantle (1826),
Captain Percy Grace is the 14th senior on the list,
and is the only officer who has been for years seeking
employment who has not obtained either appointment,
pension, or distinction. That gallant and distinguished
officer Captain Ryder Burton, K.H., it is true, is senior
to Captain Grace, but his severe wounds has obliged
him to refrain from seeking active service.
Captain Grace has served afloat 16 years. He is
third son of the late Richard Grace, Esq , M.P., of
Boley-, Queen's County (the representive of a family of
consul, rabie antiquity, seated in Ireland since the days
of Strongbow), by Jane, daughter of the Hon. John
Evans, of Bulgaden Hall, grandfather of John Evans
Freke, sixth and present Lord Carbery. He is younger
brother of Sir William Grace, Bart.. of Grace Castle,
county Kilkenny ; and also of Sheffield Grace, Esq. ,
D.C.L., F.S.A., K.H., of Knole House, county Sussex,
a gentlemen well known in the literary and antiquarian
world for his pro.ound and accomplished writings.
This officer entered the navy March 7, 1801, as first-
class volunteer on board the Ganges, 74, Captains
Thomas Francis Fremantle and George M'Kinley,
under the former of whom he fought, on the 2d of the
following April, at the battle of Copenhagen. On the
Home, West India, American, and Irish stations, Mr.
Grace was appointed to the Greyhound, 32, Captain
Charles Elphinstone and Edward Thomas Troubridge,
in which frigate he cruised for some time off Cherburg,
and then sailed for the East Indies. On his return
to the Greyhound Mr. Grace assisted at the des-
truction of a Dutch armed brig under the Fort
of Maned°, and also at the capture of a simi-
lar vessel off the island of Tidore ; and on
the 28th of the same month, he proved himself an officer
deserving of promotion by his conduct in a smart action
with a Dutch squadron, which terminated in the surren-
der, to the Grey hound and Harrier sloop of the Pallas
frigate, and two armed and richly laden Indiamen. The
Greyhound, of which he had been nominated a master's
mate in November, 1806, and an acting lieutenant in
June 1807, being wrecked in October, 1808, off the coast
of Luconia, Mr. Grace and his companions bad to per-
form a fatiguing march of 12 days over mountains and
through rivers and woods, hitherto unpassed by Euro-
pean, in a state of utter destitution. They then became
captives of the Spanish at Manilla, where they were de-
tained for a period of three months; but it was not until
after a further and most cruel imprisonment of eight
months at Batavia, whither they were taken by two
French frigates, with whom they had unluckily fallen in
while on their passage, en parole, from Manilla to Prince'
of Wales' Island, that they were fully restored to liberty.
Being then, in September, 1809, allowed to depart in
the Piedmontaise frigate, Captain Charles Foote, Mr.
Grace, whose promotion had been confirmed by the Ad-
miralty on the 28th of the preceding February, was
shortly afterwards, on the 30th of the same month,
planed in command' of the boats of that ship, and sent to
reconnoitre a flotilla of 20 54 slay pirates, two of whom
he succeeded in capturing, although net without a loss of
2 men killed, and2o,including himself severely, wounded.
The effects of the injury he received he still feels, but no
compensation Las till now been granted to him. On the
16th March, 1811, he joined the Semiramis, 36, Captain
Charles Richardson, in command of one of the boats of
which frigate he contributed to the capture of five French
vessels anchored four miles up the Gironde. On the
morning of the 25th August he similarly assisted in
taking Le Pluvier corvette, of 16 guns and 136 men,
under the batteries of Royan, and on that occasion his
handsome conduct obtained him the official thanks of
his captain. Mr. Grace, on the 12th Aagust, 1812, was
appointed to the San Domingo, 74, bearing the flag on
the coast of North America of Sir John Borlase
Warren, under whom he witnessed the
mo
attack upon
Crany Island, &c, and served until proted to
the rank of commander, on the 15 June, 1814. His last
appointment was, on the 17th January, 1822, to the
Cyrene, 20, fitting for the African station, where he
cruised, between the river Gambia and the Bights of
Beans end Bianfra, until Dec. 14, 1823, at which period'
he sailed for England, where he arrived Feb. 7, 1824,
after having enouuntered a hurricane so violent that it
had been found necessary to throw 11 of the ship's guns
overboard. Ho afterwards served in the Cyrene in the
Mediterranean. In November, 1824, Captain Grace
became senior officer in the Levant. He attained post
rank Feb. 1, 1825, and on the 20th August in the same
year was paid off. Captain Grace and those who had
been wrecked with him in the Greyhound were taken
from Manilla to Batavia by the French frigates Can-
noniere and Laurel. When commanding the Cyrene he
was the first who commenced the destruction of barra-
coons or slave factories on the coast of Africa. Among
the vessels which were captured and detaine by the
Cyrene and her boats, were the Aurora, Dutch
schooner
sd chooner,
of 144 tons, 4 guns, and 26 men; L'Hypolite,
uns, and 19 m
(under French colours), of 95 tons, 2 gen ;
and the Caroline, French schooner, a 78 tons, 2 guns,

and 20 men.
Captain Charles Howe Fremantle is the son ofthe
celebrated admiral who commanded the Inconstant in
Hotham's fiction, the Seahorse at Teneriffe, and the
Ganges and Neptune at Copenhagen and Trafalgar, and
died a vice•admiral when commander-in-chief in the
Medio erratical]. He is also brother of Sir Thomas Free
mantle, Bart., Chairman of the Customs. He was born
in 1800, entered the navy in 1812, and has served afloat
about 22 years. He was a midshipman on board the
Ramillies, 74, Captains Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy
and Sir Charles Ogle; under the first of whom be served
at the blockade of New London, assisted in occupying
the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, witnessed the bom-
bardment of Stonington, and joined in the attack on
New Orleans; was confirmed a lieutenant November
11, 1819, and continued, we believe, to serve, lat-
terly as signal officer to Sir Graham Moore, until
advanced to the rank of commander, April 23,
1822. He was afterwards employed in the coast-guard
service at Lymington, but resigned that appointment on
being invested with the command, June 24, 1824, of the
Jasper, 10, in which sloop he visited Mexico. Acquiring
his present rank August 4,1826, Captain Fremantle was
selected to command, Nov. 5, 1828, the Challenger. 28,
first at the Cape of Good Hope, and then in the East
Indies, whence he returned to England, and was paid off
June 12, 1833. On May 20, 1843, he commissioned the
Inconstant, 36, and commanded her for two years, when
he was appointed to the Albion, 90, and paid off that
ship about three years since.
THE A.D.C. TO THE QUEEN.
The vacant appointment of naval A .D.C. to the Queen,
shipbuilding
vice Rear Admiral Duff, has been conferred on the Earl
Talbot, WI, better kn )wn in the navy PS Lord Ingestre,
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from his unweaned exertions for many years in the
Captain Lord
House of Commons to bring about those reforms of the
to the conimandi
department of the Admiralty which we
trust are now being carried out in the Royal dockyards.
services in the latter vessel
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were, January 9 and 30 K.R.G.18 His last appointments
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Mediterranean. He has shipse he again served in the
His lordship is‘lieutenant-colonel r half-payf since 1837.
Regiment of Staffordshire Militia,e of
the Queens Own
liaaieet for the borough of Hertford
sat in
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Dublin, and before his accession to and the city of
fielded South Staffordshire, the earldom repro-