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19, 1851

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE ADMIRAL'S GOOD SERVICE PENSION.
The good-service pension of 3001. per annum, vacant
by the death of Admiral Talbot, has been conferred by
Sir F. Baring on Vice-Admiral of the White Thomas
Brown, an officer who, although without the decoration
of even a K IL, has seen some very distinguished service
in the course of his 60 years' career in the navy, for 40
of which he was employed afloat. The following sketch
of his services is condensed from " O'Byrne's Bio-
graphy
In the Phoenix, 36, commanded by Sir Richard
Strachan, he partook, in November, 1791, on the Mala-
bar coast, of an obstinate conflict with the French frigate
La Resolue, of 46 guns, which terminated in the enemy
striking his colours atter occasioning a loss to himself of
25 killed, and 40 wounded, and to the British of 6 killed
and 11 wounded. In 1792, Mr. Brown removed to the
Minerva, 38, and assisted in 1793, at the reduction of
Chandenugore, Pundicherry, and other places. He was
promoted to a lieutenancy in the Glory, 98, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Bourmaster, October 24, 1794.
During the six years he was attached to the Flora, 36,
we find him present at the occupation of Porto Ferrajo,
in July, 1796; at the capture, besides the French 16-gun
corvette La Corceyre, of nine privateers, currying in the
whole 102 guns, and 640 men; and in the expedition to
Egypt, under Lord Keith and Sir R. Abercrom by, whose
mortal remains he subsequently conveyed to Malta. Capt.
Brown, who was advanced to the rank of commander,
October 8, 1802, was next appointed, January 14, 1803,
to the William store-ship, and in September of the same
year to the Orestes, 14, in which vessel he afforded
everl support and assistance to Commodore Owen, of
the Immortalite, in a skirmish with the Boulogne flotilla,
October 23, 1804, and had the misfortune to be wrecked,
July 17, 1805, on the Splinter Sand, in Dunkerque Road.
Commanded the Raven brig, the Solebay, 32, the In-
flexible, 64, the Curapa, and the Vengeur, 74, flag-
ship, of Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke. In the Bulwark, 74,
Commodore Sir Richard King, served off Brest and
l'Orient; and Msrch 21, 1812, and November 20, 1814, ,
commanded the Loire, 38, and Saturn, 56, in both of
which ships ho took a very active part in the hostile
operation on the coast of North America, and, in the
former, captured, December 10, 1813, the Rolla pri-
vateer, of five guns and eighty men, He was placed
out of commission April 24, 1815; obtained command of
the Ordinary at Sheerness, October 14, 1816; was se-
lected by Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert to be his flag-
captain in the Vigo, 74, at St. Helena, then the abode of
Napoleon Bonaparte, November 12, 1819; January 31,
1826, commanded the Tartar, 42, in South America,
where he was presented by the celebrated Bolivar with
his portrait, as a mark of esteem; October 26, 1831,
commanded the Talavera, 74; an, May 17, 1833, as-
sumed the command of the Caledonia, 120, as flag-cap-
tain to Sir Josias Rowley, in the Mediterranean. Cap-
tain Brown was superseded in October, 1835; he ob-
tained his flag June 28, 1838.

THE COMMANDER.IN-CHIEF OF THE SOUTH-

EAST COAST OF AMERICA.
Rear-Admiral William Wilmot Henderson, C. 8.,
K. 11., has been appointed to relieve Rear-Admiral Rey-
nolds,C.B.,in the command-in-chief of the south-east coast
of America station. On the occasion of Admiral Hen-
derson obtaining his flag rank on the 21st of March last,
we gave an account of his services. We may now briefly
remark that he went to sea in 1799, with Earl St. Vin-
cent as his patron, and the famous Sir W. Domett as his
captain. Ho was in the battle of Trafalgar, was pro-
moted to the rank of commander for his gallantry with
Sir James Gordon in the action off Lisa; was posted in
1815; was ashore from 1816 to 14137, and as a captain
commanded after that time the Edinburgh, 72, at Acre,
and the Victory ordinary guard-ship at Portsmouth.
His sea services extend over a period of 24 years.

THE CAPTAIN'S GOOD SERVICE PENSION.
Captain Frederick Thomas Michell (1830) has received
at the hands of Sir F. Baring the good-service pension
of 1501. per annum, relinquished by Sir John Ross, on
promotion to the flag. Ile, too, has served with distinc-
tion in the war, was wounded eight times, and has 23
years' afloat service in all grades. According to O'Byrne
his first ship was the Eurydice, 24, and on Oot. 6, 1805,
we find him serving with the boats under Lieutenant
Andrew Pellet Green, at the capture of the Mestuo la
Solidad, Spanish privateer, of 6 guns, and a convoy, of
-which the latter had charge. In the ensuing November,
having followed Captain Hoste into the Amphion, 32,
he assisted at the defeat, although simultaneously op-
posed by the fire of an immense battery, of a division of
about thirty Spanish gun-boats, which had come out of
Algesiras in the hope of capturing a British convoy. He
was afterwards present in the operations against the
French on the coast of Calabria; and in the c,Jurse of
1806 he became in succession attached to the Termagant,
18, Morgiana sloop, and Ocean, 98, flag-ship of Lord
Collingwood—all, too, in the Mediterranean, on which
station he continued until promoted to the rank of lieu-
tenant, May 29, 1807. In the Active, 38, he aided at
the capture, March 26, 1808, of the Friedland brig of war
of 16 guns, having on board the commander-in-chief
of the Italian Marine; and was wounded in two
successful boat expeditions on the coast of Albania.
On the first of those occasions, out of seven casualties
that occurred, his own boat sustained the loss of
one killed and five wounded. The injuries ho himself
received were rewarded by a gratuity from the Patriotic
Fund. During a subsequent servitude of five years and
nine months, from June, 1809, to March, 1815, in the
Rhin, 38, on the home, West India, and Brazilian sta-
tions, ho assisted at the capture of nine privateers (of one
of which be took possession in a heavy gale), carrying
altogether 103 guns and 735 men, and co-operating ez-
tensiv.ly in 1812-13 with the patriots on the north coast
of Spain. When the Laurel frigate in January of the
former year was cast away in the reigtieuse passage, he
made one trip more than any other officer to the wreck,
although under the fire of the enemy, and brought off
the captain and the last of the crew. On leaving the
Rhin she joined, first, the Boyne, 98, and then the
Queen Charlotte, 100, bearing each the gag of Lord
Exmouth, who, on the day preceding the battle of Al-
giers, placed him in charge, with the rank of com-
mander of the whole of the battering flotilla attached to
his squadron. During the ever memorable bombard-
ment Captain Mitchell, in execution of the duty with
which he had been intrusted, went on board the Dutch
admiral's and every British ship engaged in the line of
battle. In the midst of the conflict, when, as it was
supposed, the captain of the Queen Charlotte had been
mortally wounded, ho was sent for by the
commander-in-chief, and directed to act in his stead.
He was removed from the command of the flotilla to
that of the Beelzebub bomb, September 1, 1816; and on
16th of the same month ho was officially pr. meted.
Quitting the Beelz,bud on the 21st of the ensuing Octo-
ber, Captain Michell did not again go afloat until De-
cember, 1826, when he was appointed to the Rifleman,
18,tting for the Mediterranean, and was recommended
by the successive commanders-in-chief, and by her Ma-
jesty's ambassador at the Porte, in a manner that pro-
cured him a post-commission, dated February 22, 1830.
His last appointments were, April 23, 1840, and August
4. 1841, to the Magicionne, 24, and Inconstant, 36, in
the former of which ships he united in the operations on
the coast of Syria ; and in the latter saved, by his zeal
and promptitude, the Scout sloop of war from being
lost, after she had been a week on shore on the island of
Cyprus.

NAVAL AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE QUEEN.
Captain Frederick William Beechey, F.R.S. (1827),
has received the vacant appointment of naval aide-de-
camp to the Queen, vice Stirling, promoted to fLg rank.
Captain Bee chey has served afloat since his first entry
into the Navy, in 1806, for about :35 years, chiefly in
active expeditions and surveying operations. In the
war, when midshipman of the Astrea, 42, and 271 men,
be proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope. On May 20,
811, when in company, off Madagascar,with the Phssbe
and Galatea frigates, of force similar to the Astrea,
and 18. gun brig Racehorse, he assisted, after a long
and warmly contested action with the French 40-gun
frigates Ronommee, Clorinde, and Niteide, and a loss
to the Astrea of two killed and sixteen wounded at the
capture of the Renommie, and on the 25th of the same
month, of the Nii bide and the settlement of Tamatave.
In the Galatea, 36, Captain Woodley Losack, he received
his first commission, March 10, 1815. While attached
to the Vengeur, 74, he attended the expedition to New
Orleans, and was in the boats, Jan. 18, 1815, when they
swept across the Mississippi with a body of troops, sea-
men, and marines, to create a diversion in favour of
the general attack on the American line. As Lieu-
tenant, Mr. Beechey's appointments appear to have been
—Sept. 13, 1815, to the Niger, 38, Captain Samuel
ackson, on the North American station; Jan. 14, 1818,
to the Trent, hired brig, Lieutenant-Commander, now
Sir John Franklin, whom he accompanied in a northern
expedition under Captain David Buchan; Jan. 22, 1819,
to the Hecla, sloop, Lieutenant-Commander William
Edward Parry, in which he penetrated to long. 113 deg.
54 min. 43 sec. W. within the Arctic Circle, and re-
ceived in consequence a Parliamentary reward of 2001.;
and Jan. 23, 1821, to the Adventure, sloop, Captain
William Henry Smyth. On Nov. 6 following, having
been appointed in conjunction with his brother, Mr. H.
W. Beechey, to co-operate with the last-named vessel in
conducting overland a survey of the north coast of Africa
he set out from Tripoli for that purpose. The results'
of his researches, which extended as far eastward as
Derna, and lasted until July 25, 1822, have been fully
detailed by Captain Beechey in his " Proceedings of the
Expedition." He was advanced to the rank of com-
mander, Jan. 25, 1822; and on the 7th of January,
1825, received an appointment to the Blossom, 24, fitting
at Woolwich for a voyage of discovery, via Cape Horn,
to Behring strait, there to act in concert with the con 7
tamporaneous and differently directed expeditions of
Captains Franklin and Parry in their efforts to ascertain
the existence of a north-west passage. During h
years and a half of Captain Beochey's
bs7
ritentco from
tio of thee three
England he took formal possession in the
five others,
islands called Gambier's Group; discoveredCockburn, Byttna
to which he gave the names of Barrow,e
ad Behring Strait,
Martin, Croker, and Melville; pats:
point northward
bar e, under Mr,
and penetrated, in August, 1826, to
of Icy Cape, whence the B
exploration on
Begs. 23 ram
Thomas Elson, the master, rele2scshle
mdilna.t.3o7lseele. •Nle,) •
de
31 sec. N.,and long. 156
go.f Franklin's e
146 miles from the extreme
from the Mackenzie
his progress westward Diver; after.-
eastward of ocechoo, where
wards examined the e
seYslas del A h;
ho re-discovered the_
frozen
rzo—spo; and, on
again visiting the
the first regions
in
the summer of
1827, entered for me a spacious and im-
portant haven to the south-eastward of Cape Prince of
,ales, leading into a secure inner harbour, well adapten
for repairing ships, to which he respectively assigned the
names of Port Clarence and Grantley harbour. The
Blossom at length, after traversing 73,000 miles, and
rendering the moat essential service to the science of
navigation, arrived at Spithead in September, 1828. She
was paid off at Woolwich the 12th of October following.