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We (Herald) stated some months since that it was in
contemplation to give the senior naval Lord of the
Admiralty, Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, a less responsi-
ble office than the one he has from ill-health and bodily
infirmity so feebly occupied for the last two years, and
that he would succeed :Vice-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy

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as commander-in-chief at Sheerness,
The whole service will be glad to hear that the gallant
invalid has accepted the Sheerness command, and the
navy and country will be still more gratified with the
information, that the gallant and distinguished officer
who returned yesterday from the command in chief of the
North American and West India station, Vice-Admiral
Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.8.,K.C.11,, has been selected
for the post vacated by Vice-Admiral Parker, and
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mander-in-chief of the Baltic fleet, Sir G. Seymour has
now a position which, beyond most men on the flag list,
he is the best qualified to fill. No man has had more
experience either afloat or ashore-either in war or peace
-either in a civil or military capacity, than Sir G. F.
Seymour. Those in the navy who remember the gallant
deeds of Cochrane, will not forget the share the captain
of the Pallas took at the Aix Roads expedition, and the
manly, honest, straightforward evidence the " young
officer' gave at Lord Gambier's court-martial. Sir
George was a Lord of the Admiralty with Sir G. Cock-
burn under Lord Haddington's presidency.
The following sketch of Sir G. Seymour's career is
extracted from " O'Byrne's Naval Biography :''-
" Sir George Francis Seymour, born in September, 1787,
is eldest son of the late Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour
(fifth son of Francis, first Marquis of Hertford, K.G.) by
Asne Horatia, third daughter of James, second Earl
Waldegrave, whose widow married, a second time, his
Royal Highness William Henry Duke of Gloucester, bro-
ther of King George 111. He is brother of the late Lieut.
Colonel Hugh Henry Seymour; is uncle of Commander
F. P. B. Seymour, R.N. ; and is closely connected with
, the families of the Duke of Grafton, the Marquises of
Cholmendeley,Huntley,Bristol, and Londonderry,the Earls
of Drogheda, Grandison, and Lincoln, the Viscounts Chet-
wynd, and Torrington, and Lord Southampton.
" This officer entered the navy Oct. 10, 1797, as first-
class volunteer, on board the Princess Augusta yacht,
Captain Edward Riou, lying in the River Thames, and
from March, 1791, until May, 1802, was employed on the
Channel and West India stations, the last two years and
four months in the capacity of midshipman, in the Sans-
pareil, 80, Prince of Wales, 98, and Sanspareil again, all
flag-ships of his father, and Acasta, 40, Captain Edward,
Fellowes. In the Prince of Wales he witnessed the sur-
render of Surinam, in August, 1799 ; and in the Acasta ho
assisted in making a variety of prizes. He was subse-
quently, in the course of 1802-3, employed on the Home,
Newfoundland, and Mediterranean stations ; in the Endy-
mion, 40, Captain John Larmour ; Isis, 50, bearing the
flag of Vice-Admiral James Gambier; Endymion, a second
time, Captain Hon. Charles Paget ; and Victory, 100,
bearing the flag of Lord Nelson. Under Captain Paget
we find him contributing, June 18 and 25, July 16, and
August 14, 1803, to the capture of La Colombo and La
Bacchante, corvettes of 16 and 18 guns, L'Adonr store-
ship, and Lo General Moreau, privateer, of 16 guns. In
February and March, 1804, he was nominated in succes-
sion acting lieutenant of the Madras, 51, and Donegal, 74,
and while in the latter ship, to which he was confirmed by
a commission bearing date Oct. 12, 1804, he aided in
taking the Spanish frigates Matilda and Amfitrite, the
former laden with quicksilver worth 200,0001.-accom-
panied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back, in 1805,
in pursuit of the combined squadrons of France and Spain,
and participated in the capture of El Rayo, of 100 guns,
one of the ships recently defeated at Trafalgar. On Feb.
6, 1806, a few days after he had joined the Northumber-
land, 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Hon. Alexander
Cochrane, Lieut. Seymour fought in the action of St.
Domingo, on which occasion a grapeshot penetrated his
jaw, and carried away several teeth. Having been ad-
vanced 22d January preceding to the rank of commander,
he removed as such on the 9th February to the Kingfisher
sloop, in which vessel, in the ensuing May, he took
in tow the Pallas, 32, Captain Lord Cochrane, after
that ship had been disabled in action, under the batteries
of Ile d'Aix, with the French frigate La Minerve. He was
posted, July 29, 1806, into the Aurora, 28, stationed in the
Mediterranean • and was subsequently appointed, Feb. 15,
1808, to the Pallas, 32, in which frigate he took part in
Lord Cochrane's celebrated attack upon the French shipping
in the Basque Roads-Sept. 16, 1809, June 1, 1812, and
Jan.l, 1813, tothe Manilla 36, Fortunee, 36, and Leonidas,
38,'employed on the Lisbon, Irish, and West India stations ;
and May 21, 1827, for a few months, to the Briton, 46, en-
gaged on particular service. In the Leonidas, which ship
he left Sept. 14, 1814, Captain Seymour captured, May 23,
1813, the American privateer Paul Jones, of 16 guns and
85 men, five of whom were wounded during the chase. He
was nominated a C.B. June 4, 1815; awarded, May 28,
'me
1816, a pension of 2501. per annum for his wound;
nomi-
nated a K.C.F. (accompanied with the honour of knight-
hood) in 1831, and a G.C.H. Dec. 9, 1834; and advanced
to flag rank Nov. 23, 1841. He filled a seat at the Board
of Admiralty from September, 1841, until appointed, May
14, 1844, commander-in-chief in the Pacific. He sailed for
that station with his flag in the Collingwood, 80, and con-
tinued there until relieved in 1848 by Rear-Admiral
Phipps Hornby.
" In 1818 Sir G. F. Seymour was appointed by his uncle,
the Marquis of Hertford, then Lord Chamberlain, serjeant-
at-arms to the House of Lords. From August 4, 1830,
until he resigned, Nov. 11. following, he was a naval aide-
de-camp to William IV. ; under whom he filled the office
of Master of the Robes from Sept. 13, 1830, until the period
of his death. Sir George married in March, 1811,
Georgina Mary, second daughter of the late 4dmiral Hon.
Sir G. Cranfield Berkeley, G.C.8., by whom he has issue
three sons and five daughters."