The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-03 00:00:00

GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS.

The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased to
grant Good Service Pensions of 1501. per annum to the
following gallant officers :
Captain J. W. Maurice (1809), RN., residing at
Stonehouse. This officer was in Lord Bridport's action
in 1795, and assisted at the capture of two French
frigates, La Unite and La Virgin° ; was senior Lieute-
nant of the Centaur at the capture of St. Lucie and
other West India islands ; was wounded storming a
battery at Martinique in 1803 ; was distinguished for
his defence of the Diamond Rock in 1805, and the island
of Anholt in 1811. His last post was governor of that
island in the Cattegat, the garrison of which presented
him with a valuable and highly finished sword, in token
of their admiration of his personal bravery, and his
conduct during his government.
Captain Thomas White (a) (1810), R.N.. residing at
Buckiast Abbey, Devon. This officer commenced his
career under Lord hood, and was in seven actions with
that distinguished officer between the 29th April, 1781,
and the 12th April, 1782, on which day he was con-
cerned in capturing the French Admiral de Grasse, in
the Ville de Paris of 112 guns, together with four other
ships of the line. In 1794, as first lieutenant of the
Canada, he, by his unwearied exertions and suggestions
to improve her sailing, saved that ship from capture,
she having, in company with the Alexander, fallen• in
with and maintained a running fight with five French
Hue-of-battle ships and three heavy frigates for some
hours, in which the latter ship was taken by the enemy.
As acting Commander of the Pelican, off St. Domingo,
in September, 1797, he fell. in with two French privateers,
one mounting 14 guns, with a complement of 75 men,
while the other had 60 men for the purpose of boarding'
thus exceeding his own complement by 40 men. He in
a second action sunk the former, and would have taken
the latter, had he not stopped to save the crew of the
sunken vessel. For this action he received the thanks of
the Admiralty, and was Gazetted, but never obtained
the third Order of the Bath, it having been confined to
the secoud war ; but not so with the first and second
Order of the Bath. In 1805, whun commanding La
Fleche, of 18 guns, he attacked a French flotilla, and had
several men wounded, when passing close under the
battery of Greaeaz. In command of the Ariel, in 1808,
in the Baltic, he was frequenily under the fire of the
Russian batteries while watching the Russian fleet in
Rogerwick, then locked up by the Swedes and British,
under the late Lord de Saumarez. In 1813, when
Captain of the Virgo, bearing the flag of Sir James N.
Morris, in company with the Zealous, of the line, the
Ulysses and Hamadryad, frigates, &c., &c., no less than
375 merchant-ships were convoyed safely through the
Sound, in defiance of the batteries of Chronburgh
Castle, to which were superadded mortars and heavy
guns slung in chains, for the purpose of throwing shot
over to the Swedish shore, which was then for the first
time accomplished. Captain White served as flag captain
to the gallant Sir Thomas Hardy, on the South American
station, from 1819 to 1822, and in 1838-9 commanded
the Royal Adelaide, bearing the flag of Lord Amelius
Beauclerk. then Commander-in-chief at this port.
Captain John Pasco, R.N. (1811), residing at Stone-
house, Devon. This officer was tieutenant on board
Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, at the battle of Tra-
falgar, and was severely wounded in that glorious action,
for which he reeeives a pension of 2501. a-year in addition
to his half-pay. He has since served in other ships with
much credit.—Devonport Independent.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE
AND HURDLE RACES.
(BY EXPRESS.)

LIVERPOOL, LAST NIGHT.
THE GRAND NATIONAL SWEEPSTAItES

of 20 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 100 added. (42 subs)
Mr. Elmore's Gay Lad (Oliver) 1
Sir P. Mostyn's Seventy-four (Powell) 2
Mr. Hunter's Peter Simple (Owner) 3
Mr. H. Johnstone's The Returned (Owner) 4
The following also started :—Mr. Elmore's Lottery
(181bs. extra) ; Mr. Elmore's Sam Weller; Lord
Waterford's Columbine ; Hon. C. Forester's Lady
Langford ; Mr. W. Ramsay's Bangalore ; Mr. Fer-
gusson's Bannathlath ; Mr. Moore's Anonymous ;
Lord Maidstone's Satirist ; Mr. R. Ekins's Luck's
All ; Lord Clanricarde's Honesty ; and Baron Roths-
child's Luck's All.

Won easy by five or six lengths.
THE PRINCE OF WALES' CUP
Of 100 guineas, was won after a fine race by Lord
Chesterfield's Claude Du Val (Hon. A. Villiers),
beating Mr. Ward's Forget-me-not (Mr. J. Baird) ;
Mr. Moore's Game Chicken (owner), and Mr. Tom-
linson's Jem along Josey (owner).