The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-09 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1851.

having been industriously circulated that a boy bad
been murdered by his father by burnin:s him to I
death, and the court was crowded to hear the pro-
ceedings.
Robert Crebo, an active officer, 41 E division, said
that on Saturday night, at a quarter-past ten o'clock,
he was on duty near Crescent-mews, Burton-crescent,
when his attention was attracted by the cries of
"Murder," from a boy's voice in a house situate No. 25,
Crescent-mews. Witness entered, and on proceeding
to the upper part of the house the cry of murder in-
creased, and he heard blows on the third floor apart
ment. He demanded admittance, but was refused,
and he burst the door open, when he saw the injured
boy quite naked jumping about the room, and the
prisoner was beating him with a red-hot poker, and
the boy was evidently suffering extreme pain.
Witness attempted to take the prisoner into custody,
on which he refused to go with him, but resisted
violently, saying that he (witness) had no right
there, and struck him. The violence of the blow broke
in his hat. Whilst they were struggling together the
prisoner's wife returned home and assisted him, when
they threw him down stairs. He, however, kept his
foot between the door and the side post, and held it
open whilst he called for assistance, until Sergeant
Harris 17 E, and another officer came and took the
prisoner into custody, and he was locked up in the
station-house. Sergeant Harris and witness went
back to the house and took the prisoner's son to St.
Pancras workhouse for medical assistance. The boy
had no clothes to put on, and he was taken to the
workhouse wrapped up in police clothes. The wit-
ness produced a certificate from the surgeon, of
which the following is a copy, viz.:—
" James Caffcry, a patient in the St. Pancras infirmary,
suffering from severe contusions and burns on the back,
shoulders, legs, and face, and unable at present to attend.
" SAMUEL WALDEGRAVE, House Surgeon.
"Sept. 8, 1851."
Witness added, that when he questioned the boy, he
informed him that in the course of Saturday evening
his father beat him severely with a leathern strap
until his mother interfered to prevent him. She
afterwards went out to purchase some butter, when
the prisoner locked the door. He then put the poker
into the fire until it was red-hot, and he beat him
with it while he was naked.

Sergeant Harris, 17 E, confirmed the above ev

dence:

Mr. TYRWHITT asked the prisoner if he wished to
say anything to the charge ?—He replied that his son
had been a bad boy for the last three years, and was
in the habit of robbing him and bis neighbours.
Mr. TYRWIUTT—That is no reason why you
shoeld beat him with a red-hot poker.
Prisoner—l have worked hard for him, and I did
not correct him in any way for the last twelve
months.

Mr. TYRWHITT said, under the circumstances, he

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could not part with him. From the nature of the
surgeon's certificate hit son was in a very bad state,
and he should remand him for a week.

He was accordingly remanded, and in the courFe
of the day his brother applied for bail to be taken fur
his appearance.
Mr. TYRWIIITT said he would take bail, but it
must be very responsible.
LAMBETH.

FRAUD.—PASSING FICTITIOUS CnEQuEs.—Yester-
day Mr. Edward Pittard, a man of respectable ap-
pearance, who was described as a bacon factor or
solesman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on
the following charge :
Mr. Thomas Greathead, the extensive cheesemon-
ger in the Westminster-road, deposed that on Satur-
day evening last the prisoner, whom he had previously
known as a bacon factor, entered his shop and said he
had something to sell in the bacon way if he was a
buyer. Witness replied that he was not a buyer, and
the prisoner then asked him the lowest price he would
take for halta-dozen of hams. He told him 544. per
cwt., and the prisoner selected six hams and a cheese,
which came to 21. 33. 61, and tendered a cheque for
31. 153.6 d., payable at the Commercial Bank of Lon •
don. Witness objected to receive it, not knowing
the drawer; but the prisoner having assured him that
it was all right, and that it was drawn by the party
whose bacon he had to sell, and who had given it to
him for commission for business he had done, he
took it, and gave him 1/. 125., the difference. Soon
after the prisoner's departure he (Mr. Greathead) had
been informed that a number of persons in the trade
had been imposed on by the prisoner. On that morn-
ing he sent the cheque to the Commercial Bank of
London, and the answer was that the drawer was un-
known.
The prisoner, who declined offering anything in
defence, was remanded for a week.
ROBBERY IN VAUXHALL GARDENS.—EIIen Wells
and Eliza Absalom, two well-dressed married women,
who have been in custody since Tuesday last, on a
charge of robbing a French gentleman of a purse,
containing 121. in English and French moneys at
the Vauxhall Gardena, were brought up for final ex-
amination.

S argeant Goff informed the magistrate that the pri-
soner Absolom, whose husband was a tailor, had borne
a good character, but that Wells, whose husband is
a bricklayer, he found to be a person of irregular cha-
racter.

Both the prisoners were fully committed to take
theix trial on the charge at the Surrey sessions.

THAMES.

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.--William Nicolson, 53,
a seaman on board the brig Lord Althorp, was charged
with stealing a silver watch, value 21., the property
of George Nifton, waiter at the Royal Crown, Rat-
cliff a-hig h way.
Mr. Smith, at the instance of the prisoner's cap-
tain, appeared for the defence.
Nifton stated that on the previous night he war
proceeding to close the shop, when he saw the pri-
sonw fighting with another man at the bar. He in-
terfered to separate them, when the prisoner seiz-d
hold of his watchguard and threw him down. Of,
rising he found that his watch was gone, and gave
the prisoner into custody. He was very violent on
the way to the station.
The Master of the Lord Althorp (a foreign coaster)
gave the prisoner a good character.
I\l2. YARDLEY was very strongly inclined to ant.
pea that some more skilful thief, taking advantage of
the con, usion, had awed Nifton of his watch. It was
hotel ver a case for further further inquiry.
r. Smith—Partnips you will allow us to retire a
minute._

r. YARDLEY—No; I can't compromise a felony.
Nifton—l won't press the charge of felony.
`+' Jr. YARDLEY—Then I fine the prisoner 5!. for
tile assault. If he gives the prosecutor 404., he m ly go.
The captain paid the 403, and the prisoner was
then discharged,

A REGULAR SMUGGLER.—Petre Von Kouvener,
stoker on board the steam-vessel JP vnnoor,
brought up by Inspector Jones, of the Tnatnes dtvi-
sion., and officer of Customs, charged with smuggling
41h. of foreign manufactured tobacco, liable to for-
feiti ffe.

T h' Inspector stated that he saw the prisoner leave
the Fynnoor, and followed him to No. 3, Chamber-
street, Rosemary-lane, and there found a padiage
containing 41b. of tobacco on him, although he at first
denied having any.
The prisoner (through an interpreter) said he would
leave the case in his Worship's hands.
Mr. YARDLEY had no doubt he was 'a regular
smuggler, from the fact of his going to a house where
he knew he could dispose of it, and ordered him to
pay a fine of 41., or be imprisoned for a month.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE SUPEaILSTENOENT3NIP OF DEVONIe:-:,ILT
Alio•rNel Seymour, the Saperin-
tendent of Sheerness Dockyard, has been appo4ited
Commodore of the first class, and Superintendent of
Devonport Dockyard, vice Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
deceased.

It is reported that Captain Charles Eden, private
secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, will
succeed Commodore Seymour as Superintendent of
Sheerness Dockyard. With reference to the super-
intendentship, a Devonport correspondent writes as
follows :

"The officials here are all anxiety to learn the
name of the fortunate officer who is to succeed the
late Lord John Hay as Superintendent of the dock-
yard. Every day brings the name of a new candi-
date, and every imaginable reason is assigned in
support of the parties natnpd—strong Parliamentary
interest, relationship to a fortunate family, peculiar
service claims, and last, though it should nut be least,
peculiar qualifications for the duties. But amidst all
this doubt and conjecture one thing is spoken of as
certain—namely, that whoever may be the superin-
tendent, the secretary is to be selected from among
the clerks of the establishment, fully acquainted with
the routine of the yard, and therefore capable of really
assisting the new chief in such matters.

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Whether the confidence in this arrangement has
any other foundation than that which arises in the
belief, that with the present Board of Admiralty the
efficient discharge of the duties of the establishment
has paramount consideration remains to be seen ;
certain it is, however, that all those at all acquainted
with the duties of secretary, or rather first clerk in
the superintendent's office, consider the anomaly of
appointing a person to direct who must be totally
ignorant of the very alphabet of the routine of the
office, as too glaring for a repetition. In saying this
much it is not intended in the slightest degree to re-
flect on the gentleman who held the office under the
late Superintendent; his disqualifications are not per-
sonal, but general to all uninitiated. For the duties
of secretary to a commander-in-chief, or commodore
of a fleet, a purser is qualified by a long course of
regular systematic instruction during his ckrkship,
and is generally selected from his experience in some
secretary's office; but of the duties of a dockyard he
must be totally ignorant, and thus made &pendent
upon others in all his official acts. Duties thus con-
ducted never can be satisfactorily carried out—that
which should be confidential is made known, and
those who should be instructed become the instructors.

But there is one other point on which there is at
the present time great jealousy—namely, economy.
When the duties were perfortn,d by a clerk on the
establishment, the gentleman was not a mere secre-
tary to the Superintendent, he partook in the general
duties of the office ; but under the present system the
secretary is simply an attaché of the chief at an addi-
tional cost to the public of nearly 4001. a year. On
every plea, therefore, whether on account or the con•
venience and facility of bu.dness—juttice to a de-
serving class of public servants, woo have a right to
look to reaching the position which the office of secre•
tary to the Superintendent confers—or, above all, the
good of the service combined with t commy, which,
while reductions are being made among the working
classes, should not be lightly considered by their
Lordships, it is alleged that the old system should be
reverted to.

DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL LESLIE.-01.11* con-
temporary the Times has disposed of another flag
' officer. The death of Rear-Admiral Samuel Leslie (,n
the retired list of 1846) is rep n-ted to have taken place
on the 3'l instant, at Rosebank, D maghedee. The
reported deceased anuat have b-en in toe 731 sear of
his age, for he was born in March, 1779, but whether
he will turn out to be one of the " dead alive" it
remains for our contemn arary to discover. At any
rate in these days of begrudging and reproach, it
may be some advantage to the service to show the
country how our flee officers have earned their pay
and promotien. Admiral Leslie was son of the Ve-
nerable Edmund Leslie, Archdeacon of Down, and
descended from a noble Hungarian family who settled
in North Britain in 1067. The gallant admiral en-
tered the navy in May, 1793, and his full-pay service,
including 10 years in the Coast Guard, amounted to
32 years, or about 11 years more than Sir Charles
Napier has served. His first ship was the Pomona,
28, Captain Henry d'Esterre Darby ; and until the
, early part of 1794 was employed, chiefly in the capa-
city of midshipman, in annoying the enemy's coasting
trade, a service which frequently brought him under
the fire of the batteries of the French shore. Joining
the Impetueux, 74, Mr. Leslie served for many
months at the blockade of Brest, after which, on being
' again placed under the orders of Captain Darby in the
Bellerophon, 74, he served as master's mate at the
battle of the Nile, August 1, 1791. In the summer
of 1799, as soon as he had passed his examination, he
was received on board the Foudroyant, 80, bearing
the flag of Lord Nelson, who, as a reward for his con-
tact in having volunteered in a heavy gale of wind to
recover one of the ship's boats which had broken adrift
in Palermo Bay, nominated him in the following No-
vember acting lieutenant of the Success, 32, Captain
Shuldham Peard. While in that frigate, to which he
was not confirmed until Oct. 16, 1800, Mr. Leslie
served at the blockade of Malta, assisted at the cap-
ture, Feb. 18 and Aug. 24, in the latter year, of the
French 74-gun ship Le Genereux, and 40 gun frigate
La Diane, and was on hoard her when she was her-
self taken, Feb. 13, 1801, by a French squadron
under M. Gaoteaume. Being soon exchanged, he
joined in the ensuing May the Haerlem, 64, and in
September, 1805, was appointed to La Chippnnne,
36, and was at the blockade of Cadiz. Previously to
nis departure for the East Indies, Mr. Leslie took
part in many cutting-out affairs, and on one occasion
nad two men killed and three wounded in a boat
under his immediate orders. Ia Nov., 1809, being
then seniorof La Chi, p ,nno, he accompanied an expe•
ii,ion conducted by ()detain Wainwright and Lieu-
ienant-Colonel Lionel Smith against the pirates of
the Persian Galf. During the attack which was
there made upon Ras-al-lihyms, the stronghold of
'he freehoters, he distioguished himself in a very re-
markable manner-he burnt, within twice her own
length of the shore, the Minerva, an English ship,
which had some time before fallen into their
vends. In the course of the same day,
November 13, he set fire to all the dows which were
afloat in the harbour, and was of further es ential
assistance in the re-embarkation of the military. He
was not, however, in any way rewarded until Jinn-
ry, 1811, commander-in-chief
when at length the comehder-in-chief •
enemy-era him into the Wilhelmina hospital-ship, at
Poulo-Pinqng-an appointment which the Admi-
ralty confirmed March 1 following. Four months
After he had been nominated acting captain of the Sir
Francis Drake frigate, Captain Leslie, who after-
wards assumed command of the Malacca, 36, Volage,
22, and Theban, 36, was offici ally wit/dace:l to post-
rank. While iu the Volage we fled him heading a
osrty of seamen belonging to her Majesty's ship
Hussar, and co-operating Jane 28, 1613, with a
detachment of troops under Colonel Wat-00, in an
attack upon the defences of Sambas, a piratical state
on the western coast of Borneo, where, after six hour
march in an almost impenetrable jungle, five bat-
teries were in the succession assaulted and carried
with the utmost intrepidity. He was slightly wounded
on the occasion in each leg. In September of the same
year the Captain, then under the orders of Hon.
George Elliot of the Hussar, with whom was ean-
ployed a body of troops under Lieutenant-Colonel
Macgregor, assisted in the re-establishment of the
Nagor Ordeen on the throne of Pelambang. On re-
moving, in January, 1814, to the Theban, he became
flag-captain to Sir S. Hood. He subsequently com-
manded a squadron in the Java Seas. He paid the
Theban off in April, 1816 ; and was lastly, from
April, 1823, until April, 1832, employed as en in-
specting commander in the Coast Guard. His advance-
ment to his flag-rank took place October 1, 1846,
The Rear-Admiral was amagistrate for caunty Down.
He married, in September, 1817, Martha, only
daughter of the late George Vaughan, E.g., the de-
scendant of an old English,family.-Morning Herald.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander Ed ward P. B. Von Donop (1849) has
been appointed Admiralty mail agent in the screw-
packets to the Cape of Good Hope, vice Mellersh,
appointed to the command of the Rattler, screw-
sloop.
Lieutenant J. G. Gondenough (1851) has been
appointed to the Centaur flag steam frigate for Brazils,
vice Pasley, to be appointed Flag Lieutenant at
Portsmouth. _

Lieutenant A. B. Hodgkinson (1848) to the Excel-
lent, gunnery ship at Portsmouth, vice C D. B. Ken-
nedy (1846), appointed to the Calypso, 18, for C ipe.
Midahipmen—Leceson Wildman to the Mod-ste,
16, at Sheerness ; Robert M'Murdo to the Rattler,
screw-sloop, for Wollwich.
Naval Cadet T. Heron Maxwell, to the Albion, 90,
Mediterranean.
THE BeLLettomoN.-7—We stated last. weck that
the Bellerophon, 78, Captain Lord George Paulet,
was ordered to fill up her compleinent to her s-a-
service number, and to proceed to Portsmouth. Our
Devonport friends very naturally complain of remov-
ing her. Our correspondent says :—" She is sti'l in
the Sound. The Commander-in •Chiel had positively
ordered her to sail for Portsinourn to-day, but with
the present wind, and a short complement, this woul.l
be a dangerous experiment. Why yheisto be sent to
P ,rtstuouth to be &eked, is a question that would
afford some amusement if publely solved. The dock-
yard at this port affords sufficient accommodarion tf,r
the purpose, as the Sanspareil, at preseiii,in dock, is
in every way ready to give place to her. It is more
than probable that when she comes to be examined
she will be found too defective to be stint to sea with-
out first undergoing considerable repair, and the
officers and crew hive to be ,urned over to some othe

ship. If one of tie advanced snips at this pin ha-;t
been commissioned, instead of re-commisgioniog the
Bellerophon, at least 10,0001. or 12,0001. would have

teen saved to the public already. What the adrii-
ti•in,l w;isre will if, after all, she should b.
.foti i.d
not fi; for sla, we will not preten ito say." It must
be confessed that the experience of commissioning the
Superb, 80, and Bellerophon, 78, "all standing," as
it is .termed, has turned out by no means an econo-
mical experiment. The costliness, however, may have
arisen from keeping the ships too near a dockyard.
Whilst in such vicinity they are always sure to
figure in the monthly programme of works.—Morn •
ing Paper.
Mr. Atherton, chief engineer of this dockyard, is
ordered to WoAwich to take charge of the engineer-
ing department at that yard.
Grecian, 12, Cotntninder the Hoe. G. D. Keane,
and Virago steam-sloop, Commander Stewart, are to
be swung in the Sound on Tuesday next for the ad-
justment of their compasses. Tney will afterwards
be ptid wages in advance and sail for their respective
destinations—the former for the West Indies, and the
latter fir Ascension and S•mth America.
Vt,suvius steamer was tskt,n out of dock on Satur-
day afternoon and t,ken to her moorings as an ad-
vanced ship of the first class.

Vulture steam-frigate steamed round the Eddystone
on Friday to try her machinery, as did the 13uzzard
on the Wednesday precedieg.
Nile, 90, has been brought alongside the dccliyard,
Devonport, to have ber magazines altered according
to the new plan adopted by the Admiralty.
Calypso, 18, Captain A. Forbes, was towed out of
Chatham on Saturday morning by the Adder steam-
vessel.

SERVICES OF THE RETIRED REAR.
ADMIRALS.

The following are summaries of the services of the
officers promoted to the rank of retired Rear-Ad-
mirals :-
Rear-Admiral the Hon. John Gordon is youngest
brother of the Earl of Aberdeen and of Rear-Admiral
the Hon. William Gordon, MP. The following
sketch of his career in the service is from " O'Byrne's
Biography." We may add that when lieutenant of
the Seahorse he was entrusted by hie captain with the
command of the gun boat mounting a 32-pounder
(which he had taken), and the boats of the squadron
in the Potomac, for which service he was highly com-
mended by Sir James Gordon in his public dispatches.
He entered the navy April 15, 1805, as L.M. on
board the Medusa, 38, Captain Sir 'Loin Gore, with
whom, after accompanying the late Marquis Corn-
wallis to Lelia, and returning home with the remains
of that dietioeuished nohl,men, he removed as mid-
shipman in February, 1806, to the Revenge, 74, and
further served f'or a period ef two years and nine
months in the Channel and off Cadiz. He then suc
cessivele joined the Ardent, 64. bearing the flag of
hear-Admire' James Veetion ; Coeepteror, 74,
Captain Edward Fellowee; Peacock, 38, Captain
__ in. eosce-
Williem Petike ; Nymphe, 36, C.ptels H
line Percy and Edward Saeyd Clay; and Aquilon,
32, Captain Wiliam Bewles, all employed on the
home station, where in the Nymphe he was wre, k-d,
at the eutraiice of the Frith of Forth, D-c. 18, 1810
Being PrOM 'ted to the rank of lieutenant, March 21,
1812, Mr. G irdoe's appoietmeet in that capacity, we
find, were to the Itevolutionnaire and Seehorse
frigates, commended on the Western I,land and
North American stations by Captains Jdm Charles
Woollcombe and Sir James Alexander Gordon; the
latter of which ships he left a tow da $ subs- qu nth
to his advancement to the rank f comoimid,r, June
15, 1814. Afer a ten mouths' command ef the
C trnetion, 18, on the Newfoundland station, Cautnin
Gordon was there appointed, o‘, N6v.-.,tnber 20, 1818,
acting captain of the Teener, 36 Ile was c
in poat rank D c. 31, follow but does not appear
to have been inv-,stet with any further emple)tt-nt
until app,inted, Feb. 22, 1844, to the America, 50.
lie resigned the cotnnatel of diet ship, after hevieg
rota rmeciiaady served ie ner on the Pacific and Me
diterraneae stations for the purpose of accepting the
retirement, Oct. 1, 1846.
It-ar Admiral William Popham has been in the
service forty-six years. He entered the navy in May,
1805, as first-class volunteer, on board the Diadem,
64, commanded by his father, under whom, while
holding the ratings of midshipman and master's mate,
he assisted at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope,
and served on shore with the naval brigade at the
capture of Buenos Ayres. Between 1807 and the
date of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant,
February 14, 1812, he was employed on the St.
Helena, Baltic, Brazilian, home, and Mediterra-
nean stations, in the Sampson, 64, Captain W.
Coming; Surveillante, 38, Captain George Ralph
Collier (part of the force attached to the Copen-
hagen expedition); Venerable, 74, Captain Sir
H. R. Popham; Caledonia, 120, Captain James
Nash; Royal George, 100, Captain Andrew King;
and Caledonia again, flag-ship of Sir Edward Pelle w.
He next, from June, 1812, until advanced to the rank
of commander, Dec. 23, 1814, served in the West
Indies and on the coast of North America, in the
Narcissus, 32, and Loire, 38, Captains John Richard
Lumley and James Nash. In the former ship he saw
much boat service; and on one occasion in particular,
Nov. 24, 1812, assisted, under Lieut. John Cririe, in
boarding and carrying, under a shower of grape and
langridge, productive to the British of a loss of one
man killed and another wounded, the Joseph and
Mary, a mischievous privateer, mounting 4 guns,with
a complement of 73 men, on a cruise between St.
Domingo and Cuba. CaptainTopham's last appoint
merits were-on his promotion, as above, to the Pan-
dora, 16, lying in the Downs; July 27,1816 (twelve
months after he had left the Pandora) to the Hecla
bomb, in which vessel he served under Lord Exmouth
at the battle of Algiers; Oct. 4 fallowing, to the
Cordelia, 10, at Sheerness; Jan. 1, 1817, and Oat. 9,
1818, to the T.s.rian and Beaver, of 10 gins each, both
on the West India station ; and Feb, 2, 1819, as acting
cerain to the S)bille, 44, bearing his father's flfig tat
Jamaica. In the shin list mentioned, to which he
was confi, toed May 19 folloteing he continued uo'll
August, 1820. He accepted the retirement Out. 1,
1846.

Rea--Admiral James Hay is son of the late James
Hay, Esq., of Betron ; great grandson of John first
Marquis ot Tweedale ; anal a distant relaive of the
late Lord John Hey, Captain RN. He entered the
navy Oct. 13 1799, as fir At-class voluoteer, on board
the Anson, 44, Captain Philip Charles Durham, on
the home station, where, until November, 1804, he
further served with the same clyain, as midshipman,
in the Efelvenion, 40, and with Captains James Atha
Wood and James o,wald in thm Aceeta, 40. He then
r'-joined Captain Durham iu the Defiance, 74. and on
March 1, 1806. after having parttcipaa-cl in tnat ship
in Sir teohert Calder's action, and in the battle of
Trafalgar, was prOMOtfrd to a lieutenancy in the
Electre, 18. Cip.kill George B,rne Troilap,, on the
Leith stetion. Wing next appoin ed, Mav 11, 1807,
to the Atnarenthe, 18, Captain Edw ;ad Pelnatil
Brenton, he proneeied to toe ‘Ve:..t Indies, where, on
December 13, 1808 he to tk command of the boats of
a small squadron, and much distinguished himself by
the gallant manner in which, although under a heavy
fire from the enemy's batteries and troops on the
beach, he boirded cud carried the French 18-gun
brig Le Cignp, lying aground to the northward of
St. Pierre's, M4.rtiuique. Oa the suhjugatioo of the
latter island, during the operations connected with
which he acted as commander of the Amnaranthe, in
consequence of Captain Br,nton's absence on shore,
Mr Hay became signal lieutenant to the present Sir
George Cockburn, in the &Allele, 74, and
immediately returned to England. On again pro-
ceeding to the West Indies, in the Recenn, he joined
the Glommen sloop, Captain Charles Pickford, under
whom he continued until wrecked, and saved by the
Gloire frigate in Carlisle Bay, Barbedoes, in Novem
bar, 1809. He was nominated, on the 29th of the
following December, to the acting command of the
Papillon, 16, and in that vessel (being confirmed to
her by commission dated May 2, 1810) we find him
uninterruptedly employed, on the West India, Cadiz,
and Lisbon stations, until April 24, 1815. He at-
tained his present rank August 12,1819, and accepted
the retirement Oct. 1, 1846. Admiral Hay is a lieu-
tenant of yeomanry cavalry, and deputy lieutenant
for the county of Haddington. Ha is married, and
has issue three sons and one daughter.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Thomas Jones has been
in the service 60 years. He entered the navy May 2,
1791, as captain's servant, on board the Vulcan, fire-
ship, Capt. Solomon Ferris, lying at Spithead ; and
in the course of the same year removed as first-class
volunteer to the Alcide, 74, Captain Sir Andrew
Snipe Douglas, stationed in Portsmouth harbour.
During the first five years of the French revolu-
tionary war we find him serving with Lord Hugh
Seymour in the Leviathan, 74, and Sansapareil, 80;
in the former of which ships he witnessed the occu-
pation of T mlon in August, 1793, and was wounded
in Lord Howe's action, June 1, 1794; and is the
latter participated as midshipmeln in the action fought
off Ile de Groix, June 23, 1795. He was made lieu-
tenant, October 16, 1798, into the Fairy, 18, Captain
Joshua Horton, on the coast of A!rica ; and was after-
wards appointed-August 26, 1799, to the Nep one,
93, Captain James Vachon, flax-snip tor some time
the late Lord Gambier in the coannel-in 1800, 3,
and 5, to the Concorde, LthcAAter, and Iliudostau,
Captains John Wood, William Foihergili, and Alex-
ander Fraser, all on the East India Station-and May
16, 1807. to the Trent frigate, beartow the fi ,g at
Cork of Vice-Admiral James Hawkins IVoir,hed,
In the carmeiry of commander, a rink h- attained
August 15, 1810, Captain Jones was employed. er,,nn
June 16 1814, until psid oft in Decemner, 1818 in
the Harrier sloop, among the Canary Llends, off the
coast of Frew-, and on the Heirax station, lie et-
rained post rank, Augusl- 12, 1819, and accepted the
retirement, Oetob.r 1, 1846.

R RAI rt Riddell Csrre has hoen in
-ervi,e .55 ye.irs. 119 entered the navy Juno 2,
179 G, as midvit.brmin, on b )Ir.l th-t Ant r 18,
Captain George Scutr, on thy-horn- sta,:ion, ,t,err he
assisted is capturing, Sept. 8 and Nov. 14, 1797, the
privateers De Braave, of 5 guns, 8 swivels, and 25

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