The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-20 00:00:00

MUTH OF ADMIRAL MAYAN, C.B.

Rear Admiral T. B. Sulivan, 0.8., on the retired
lisv. of 184 G, died on the ltith inst. at Flushing,
Cornwall, at the good old age of 77.
This officer was born Jan. 5, 1781, and entered
tie navy in 178 G, as captain's servant on board
th. 3 Triumph, 74, Capt. J. Knight, bearing the flag
of Lord flood, at Portsmouth where he followed
the admiral into the Barfleur' 98, and was em-
ployed u .til 1793 in the BamCay Castle, 74, Capt.
J. T. Duckwo7th, Hannibal, 74 Capt. J. CulpoP,
and Cambridge, 74, Captains 'Wm. Locker and
Borer. Ho served next, from July, 1794, until
1797, in the Channel and Mediterranean,

the chief part of the time as midshipman, in the
Audacious, 74, Captains A. Hood and W. Shield ;
Audacious again, Captains A. Montgomery and D.
Gould, and Royal George, 100, flag-ship of Lord
Bridport ; and on the 2Gth of the month last men-
tioned he was made lieutenant into the Queen
Charlotte, 100, Capt. W. Locke. His next appoint-
ments were-July 19, 1797, to the Scorpion sloop,
Captains S. Douglas and H, Pine, in the North Sea ;
January 1, 1798, to the Director, Capt. William
Bligh, lying in the Yarmouth Roads ; March 15,
1798, to the Kite, sloop, Capt. William Brown,
Charles Lydiard, Steph en Thomas Digby, and Philip
Pipon, under whom he was for seven years employed
in the North Sea and Baltic and off Guernsey ; and
May 10 and Dec. 26, 1805, to the Brisk, 18, and
Capt. John Coode, and Anson, 38, Captains Fred.
Langford and Charles Lydiard, on the Irish and Ja-
maica stations. In the Kite he accompanied the ex-
pedition sent under Sir Home Popham, in May,
1798, to destroy the locks aad sluice-gates of the
Bruges Canal, and was present, in Sept., 1803, at
the bombardment of Granville. While serving as
first in the Anson he assisted, in company with the
Arethusa, 33, at the capture, Aug. 23, 1806, near
the Havannah, after a spirited action, iu whichthe
British sustained a loss of two men killed and 22
wounded, of the Pomona, Spanish frigate, of 38
guns and 3 t 7 men, laden with specie and merchan-
cue, and defended by a castle mounting 11 36-
pounders, and a flotilla of 10 gunboats, all of which
were destroyed. On Oct. 15 following, he took part
in a skirmish with the Foudroyant, a French 80, in
which the Anson had two men killed and 13
wounded ; and on Jan. 1, 1807, he contribute! to
the brilliant reduction of Curaqoa. As a rewar& for
his conduct ou the latter occasion he was promoted
to the rank of commander, Feb. 22, 1807. He con-
tinued in the Anson as a volunteer until that ship
was lost, with her captainand about 60 of the crew,
near the Lizard, Dec. 29, in the same year, and he
was subsequently appointed, in Jau. 1809, to the
transport service ; Nov. 4, 1809, for two mortlis
and a half to the Eclipse, on the Plymouth station;
and Feb. 2, 1813, and March 26, 1814, to the Wool-
wich, 44, armee-en-flute, and Weser, troopship. In
the Woolwich (in which ship he was wrecked on the
north end of the island of Barbuda in a ♦iolent hur-
icane, Nov. 6, 1813) ; he conveyed Sir Jas. Lucas
eo, 4 commanders, 8 lieutenant 24 midshipmen,
upwards of 400 seamen, and the frames of several
gun vessels from England to Quebec, for the lake
service in Canada. During his command of the Weser
he was employed with great activity on the North
American station. At the destruction of Commo-
dore Barney's flotilla up the Patuxent, Aug. 22,
1814, being the senior commander present, he had
charge of a division of boats and tenders, and
by his " cheerful and indefatigable exertions"
proved himself "most justly" entitled to the
"warmest acknowledgments" of Rear Admiral
Cockburn, by whom he was earnestly recominedel
to the favourable notice of Sir Alex. Cochrane. In
his despatch to the Commander-in-chief, announc •
lug the failure of the Baltimore expedition, the rear
admiral thus expresses himself : " It is, sir, with
the greatest pride and pleasure I report to you that
the brigade of seamen with sma'l arms, commanded
by Capt. Edw. Crofton, assisted by Captains Su-
liven, Money, and Ramsay (the three senior com-
manders in the fleet), who commanded divisions
under him, behaved with a gallantry and steadiness
which would have done honour to the ablest troops,
and which attracted the admiration of the army."
In March, 1815, Capt. Sullivan, who had bsen pro-
moted to post rank Oct. 19, 1814, left the Weser.
He was nominated aC. B. June 4 following. On
March 18, 1836, he obtained command of the Tala-
vera, 74, at Plymouth ; and from Nov. 26 in that
year until paid off on his return to England in the
spring of 1841, he served as commodore on the
South American station, with his bread pendant in
the Stag, 46. He accepted the retirement Oct. 1,
1846. Rear-Admiral Sulivau married, March 19,
1808, Henrietta, youngest daughter of the late
Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James, by whom he
had issue 14 children.

Two of the late admiral's sons are in the Royal
Navy. One of them is Capt. B. J. Sulivan, C. 8.,
who commanded a sloop in the Parana, and gal-
lantly seized on the passage of Obligado, but ob-
tained hi decoration only for his distinguished
Baltic services in command of the Lightning, steam
vessel, and lately succeeded Admiral Beech), at the
Board of Trade.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL MACDONALD, C.B.
Rear-Admiral Colin Macdonald, C. 8., on the
retired list of 1846, died en the 15th inst., at the
advanced age of fourscore years.
This officer was second son of Colin Macdonald,
second Laird of Boiaetale, by his second wife, Isa-
bella, daughter of Capt. Robert Campbell, of Glen-
falloch, whose faintly are next in succession to
Breadalbane titles and estate 4. One of his
half-brothers, Alexander, served as captain in the
71st Regiment during the American war ; and. an-
ther, Donald, on attaining in 1796, the rank of
colonel, raised a regiment of the line, called the
Macdonald Regiment, of which he was colonel-
commandant. Capt. Colin Macdonald is a younger
brothsr of the late Sir Reginald Macdonald, an ad-
vocate and her. Majesty's sheriff-depute for Stirlinb-
ahire, and also of the present Lieuz.-CJI. Rohert
Macdonald, C. 8., of Inch kenneth and Gribune,
Argyleshire. He was uncle of Sir Henry James
St n Steuart, Bart., of Allanton, Lanarkshire, and
of Lieut. James Archibald Macdonald, RN. He
entered the navy. April 2, 1793, as ordinary, on
board the Southampton, 32, Capt. Hon. Robert
Forbes, which vessel was attached to the fleet under
Lord Howe in the action of Junel, 1794. In April,
1795, Mr. Macdonald, who on that occasion had
performed the duties of midshipman, removed
to the Dryad, of 44 guns and 251 men, com-
manded at first by Captain Forbes, and afterwards
by Lord Amelius Beauclerk. on the coast of Ire-
land, where he took part June 13, 1796, in a
close and spirited engagement of 45 minutes, which
resulted in the capture, with a loss to the British
cf two killed and seven wounded, and to the enemy
of 30 killed and 45 wounded, of the French ft i4a,te
La Prosrrpine, of 42 guts and 348 men. On Juue
3, 1799, at which time he was serving on board
the Andromache, 32, Captain Robert Laurie, Mr.
Macdonald was made lieutenant into the Beaver,
sloop, Captain C. B. Jones. His next appointments
were-Jan. 4, 1800, to the Neptune, 98, Captain
James Vashon-Noy. 17, 1800, to the Resolution,
74, Captain Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, tio.oin
he accompanied to the West Indies ; Jan. 15,
1803 (after six months of half-pay), to the Con-
stance, 24, Captain Anselm John Griffiths, em-
ployed in the North Sea ; Oct. 19, 1803, to the Hero,
74, Captain Hon. A. H. Gardner, also on the Home
station ; and June 8, 1804, and August 3, 1805, to
the Monarch and Edgar, 74's, flag ships, again in
the North Sea, of Admiral Lord Keith. Obtain-
ing a second promotal commission, June 4, 1897,
Captain Macdonald sucessively assumed command,
August 8, in that year, and August 13, 1812, of
the Redpole, 10, and Scylla, 18. In the former
of those vessels, after having co-operated iu the
reduction of Flushing, he made prize, Dec. 9, 1809,
at the end of an action of half-an-hour, fought off
Beachy Head, of Le Grand Rodeur, French priva-
teer, of 16 guns and 80 men, 1 of whom was killed
and 2 wounded ; and on Sept. 21, 1811, be con-
tributed in a very zealous manner, to the capture,
in the course of a valiant contest with a division of
the Boulogne flotilla, of La Ville de Lyon, prawn,
of 12 long 24-pounders and 112 men. ‘Vhen in the
Seylla, and in company with the Royalist, 18,
Captain Macdonald, aftera long chase, commenced
a spirited action, which lasted 1 hour and 40
minu:es, and terminated in the surrender, Oct. 21,
1813, on the approach of the Rippon, 74, of the
French frigate be Wes:r, of 40 guns and 340 men,
at the time under jury main and mizeu masts. The
loss of the enemy appears to have been 4 kil
15 wounded, and that of the sloops, united, of 2
kilLd and 11 wounded. Captain Macdonald at-
tained post rank, June 7, 1814 ; was nominated a
C.B. June 4, 1815 ; and accepted the retirement,
Oct. 1,184 G.

The promotions consequent on the death of Rear
Admiral Graharn will place Captain Russell Elliott
(1838) on the reserved half-pay hit, and in -41;e Capt.
.Times Hope, C. 8., a roar adinird of tilt) Wu-,
leaving Capt. Horatio Austen, C. 8., superintend-
ent of Deptford D. ck-yard, tie senior on the list,
and the very lucky nala for the next vacancy ou
the active flag list.

Captain Gordon, late of the Victory, and flag
captiin to Sir Charles Napier in the B.tltc, is
rep:)rtrd, wi l succeed Cap'. Pelham in cJmnlancl
of the Blenheim.

Captain Arthur Forbes (1846), who was reemtly
employed as captain of the aslypso, 18, on the
Nt,rth America and West India station, has been
appointed to the Renlwn, 91, screw, at Slifliruesg,
considered the Guest screw tiro-decker in the ser-
vice.

Commander Montagu F. O'fteifly (185 C)), who
inidsiipman of the Druid during the operations
on the coast of China, and preleat at the taking of
Amoy and Ko-long-so, also lieutenant of the Retri-
bution at the reelnnoitre of Sebastopol, and at the
bornbarklment of Odes4a,, has been appointed the
command of the Lapwing, 4, screw gun vessel, at
Devonpurt.

THE JUNO'S COURTS-MARTIAL.
A court-martial was held yesterday morning on
board the St. Vincent, 101, ordinary guard ship,
Captain Harry Eyres, C. 8., to try Lieut. Richard
Bradshaw, of the Juno, 26, for being asleep on his
watch, and fur neglect of duty.

The court ()panel at 9 a.m. President, CApta;n
Hon. Frederick Pelham, C.B. ; Captains H. Eyres,
C. 8., G. H. Seymur, C. 8,, R. Harris, R. S. Hew-