The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-28 00:00:00

Commander Arthur Mellersh (1849), who has
been serving as Admiralty agent on board one of
the Cape service contract steamers, has been ap-
pointed to re-commission the Rattler screw-sloop at
Woolwich.

Clerk—William F. Dixon to the Vengeance, 84,
Spithead.
C3penter—John Edwards has been advanced to
the second class.

DEATH OF LORD JOHN HAY.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.-We have the painful
duty to record the loss of one of the most active and
skilful officers in her Majesty's naval service. Last
night, at half-past 9 o'clock, Rear Admiral Lord
John Hay was relieved from his sufferings, at St.
Michael's-terrace, Stoke; his Lordship had been gra-
dually declining for the last ten days. According to
O'Byrne, the Right Hon. Lord John Hay was born
on the Ist of April, 1793, and was the third son of the
seventh Marquis of Tweeddale. He entered the navy
as a first-class volunteer on the 4th of December,
1804, on board the Monarch, 74, Captain Searle, and
continued with the Mediterranean force until June,
1811, during which time he lost his left arm at the
cutting out of some vessels in Hyeres Bay, and on
the night of the 15th of July, 1808, contributed to the
capture, after a memorably furious engagement, of
the Turkish man-of-war Badere Zaffer, mounting 52
guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170
were slain, and 200 wounded ; and the Alis Fegan,
26, was at the same time put to flight. Lord John's
commission was dated May 1, 1812; his appointment
to the Pique, 36, June, 1, 1812 ; and to the Venerable,
74, 31 May, 1814 ; he was advanced to the rank of
Commander on the 15th of June; and on the 15th
of November joined the Bustard, 10, off Lisbon.
In 1815 his Lordship obtained the command of
the Opossum, 10, in which sloop he served in the
Channel and North American stations until paid off
on the sth of August, 1818. He attained post rank
on the 7th of December following, and was subse-
quently appointed December 24, 1832, November 19,
1836, and March 8, 1837, to the Castor, 36, Plicenix
steamer, and North Star, 28, which vessels he com-
manded till 1840. He had charge of a battalion of
marines during this period, and acted as Commodore
of a small squadron on the north coast of Spain, where
the importance of his services as connected with the
civil war, especially at the siege of Bilboa, procured
him in 1837 the Grand Cross of the order of Charles
111., and the Companionship of the Bath. Lord
John Hay, who next, from the 17th of August, 1841,
until October, 1845, commanded the Warspite, 50,
on the coast of North America (whither he conveyed
Lord Ashburton) and iu the West Indies, was suc-
cessively appointed in 1846 Acting Superintendent of
Woolwich Dockyard, Chairman of the Board of
Naval Construction, and a Lord of the Admiralty ;
which latter office he retained until his appointment,
on the 9th of February, 1850, Captain Superintendent
of the Devonport Dockyard. His Lordship was a
Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Haddington,
and sat in Parliament for that shire in 1826 and 1830.
In 1833 he received a large silver medal from the
Society for the Encouragement of Arts for the inven-
tion of a telescope-holder for the use of a person with
only one hand.
Lord John Hay was brother-in-law of Mr. John
Henry Ley, clerk to the House of Commons, and
of Lord Broughton, President of the Board of
Control.
On Sunday the flag of Lord Jobn Hay, on promo-
tion as Rear-Admiral of the Blue, was hoisted on
board the St. George, 120, when she saluted the flag
of Port-Admiral Ommaney, which compliment was
duly acknowledged by the Impregnable, 104. The
same day the frigate Pique, on passage from Pem-
broke, put in, owing to contrary winds.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN GRINT.-Captain William
Grint (1818), lately promoted to the captains' re-
served half-pay list, died on the 24th inst., at Will'
worth, aged 66. He entered the navy in 1800, and
served afloat during the war for 14 years. lie was
at the battle of Copenhagen in the Amazon, 38 Cap-
tain Riou; in the Courageux, 74, he witnessed the
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nant at the celebrated capture of Curacoa. He was.
confirmed a lieutenant July, 1807, and served in
Anson, 44, Vulture and Hope sloops, Pompey, 74,
Zenobia sloop, and for a few weeks commanded a
gun-boat. In the course of his services he received
which stablishmen ts and at the Guild -
commander in 1818.
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