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Rh 28, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Legge in the river Thames, where he remained until the following Dec – and 29 April, 1820, 12 March and 10 April, 1826, and 16 June, 1829, to the command of the and  Revenue-cruizers, and  and  Falmouth packets. In the latter vessel he remained until Feb. 1837. He has since been on half-pay. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place 7 March, 1842. – Hallett and Robinson.

 ST. JOHN. 

obtained his commission 21 July, 1810.

 ST. LEGER. 

, born 20 Feb. 1814, is second son of the late Hon. Rich. St. Leger (second son of the first Viscount Doneraile), by his second wife, Eliza, only child of Dan. lRobt. Bullen, Esq., of Old Connaught, co. Dublin.

This officer entered the Navy 9 Aug. 1828; and passed his examination in 1835. While Mate, in China, of the 26, Capt. Thos. Herbert, he assisted in the boats at the capture and destruction of 11 out of 13 war-junks, near Chuenpee, 7 Jan. 1841 – was present in an attack made, 27 Feb. following, on the enemy’s camp, fort, and ship Cambridge, bearing the Chinese Admiral’s flag (which he boarded) at their position below Whampoa Reach, where 98 guns were in the whole destroyed – contributed to the capture, 13 March, of several rafts and of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton – and was attached to the western division of boats at the capture, six days after, of that city itself. For these services he was promoted, 8 June, 1841, to the rank of Lieutenant. While belonging, in the course of the same year, to the 72, also commanded by Capt. Herbert, he co-operated in the reduction of Amoy and Chinghae. He was paid off from the in March, 1843; and was next, from 9 Sept. 1844 until 1848, employed on the coast of Africa and on the North America and West India station, as Second and First Lieutenant in the  12, Capts. Robt. Harris and Peché Hart Dyke, and 10, Capt. Henry John Douglas. He attained his present rank 12 Aug. 1848. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 ST. QUINTIN. 

was born 21 June, 1791. This officer entered the Navy, 23 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and Jonas Rose; under the former of whom he served as Aide-de-Camp at the battle of Trafalgar and as Midshipman in the action off. In 1807 he landed with the naval brigade and was employed in the batteries at the siege of Copenhagen, where he received the thanks of Capt. Rose, who acted as Beach-Master, for suggesting the easy and safe embarkation of the troops by means of the enemy’s floating-batteries. On the being wrecked in the Rio de la Plata 20 June, 1809, he joined, with strong recommendations, the  74, Capts. Adam Mackenzie and Jas. Walker. While on the books of that ship he was sent from the coast of Brazil to Cadiz in a valuable detained Spanish ship, and was for some time actively employed in the gun and open-boat service at the defence of the latter place. In Sept. 1812 he was again at the request of Sir Edw. Berry placed under his orders as Master’s Mate in the 98, of which ship, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, he was created a Lieutenant 7 Jan. 1814. Previously to his promotion we find him, 18 Aug. 1813, commanding the ’s barge in a brilliant attack on the batteries at Cassis, where, after sustaining a loss of 4 killed and Ifj wounded, the British succeeded in capturing two heavy gun-boats and 26 vessels laden with mer- chandize. His last appointments were – 7 Aug. 1814, for 12 months, to the 14, Capt. Geo. Hewson, employed in the Downs – 19 Sept. 1818, as Senior, to the 18, Capt. Alex. Montgomerie, on the West India station, whence a severe attack of yellow fever caused him, in Nov. 1819, to invalid – in 1824, to the Coast Guard – and, in 1826, to the command of the Revenue-cruizer. On leaving the latter vessel in April, 1829, he was officially recommended to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Melville, by the Comptroller- General and the Hon. Board of Customs “for such employment afloat as might lead to his promotion in the Royal Navy, as a reward for his zeal, exertions, and general good conduct.”

In consideration of his having severely fractured his left thigh, Lieut. St. Quintin was awarded a pension of 5l. per annum 30 May, 1843. He married, 28 March, 1826, Lucretia, daughter of J. Chapman, Esq., of the Close, Norwich.

 SAINTHILL. 

entered the Navy, in Oct. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capts. John Coode and Eyles Mounsher, employed on the coast of Ireland, where he became, in Dec. 1811, Midshipman of the 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton. From May, 1812, until Aug. 1814, be served in the Bay of Biscay and off Lisbon, as Master’s Mate, in the and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. John Davies, and  74, Capt. Chas. Inglis. In Oct. of the latter year he joined the 74, Capt. Thos. Briggs, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; he removed, as Admiralty-Midshipman, in July, 1816, to the 100, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth; and for his services in that ship at the bombardment of Algiers he was promoted, 16 Sept. following, to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.

 SAINTHILL. 

died in 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 3 Oct. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 40, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, stationed on the coast of Ireland. In April, 1812, seven months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the 36, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, with whom he continued employed on the north coast of Spain and on the coast of Brazil until Dec. 1814. He next, in June, 1815, joined the 38, Capt. John Pasco, on the Lisbon station; and after having been for rather more than two years employed in the Downs in the  20 and  40, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, sailed, towards the close of 1817, for the West Indies in the 44; of which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Home Popham, he was created a Lieutenant 20 Feb. 1819. His next appointments were – 25 June, 1819, for five months, to the 10, Capt. Wilson Braddyll Bigland, on the Jamaica station – 27 June, 1822, to the  78, Capts. Adam Mackenzie and Sir Thos. Staines, with whom he served at Plymouth, in the AVest Indies, and off Lisbon, until paid off, 19 Dec. 1825 – and 25 June, 1827, to the 50, Capt. Sir T. Staines, fitting for the Mediterranean, where he remained until advanced to the rank of Commander, 22 July, 1830. He was afterwards, from 22 Aug. 1833 until paid off, in the summer of 1834, and from 9 Feb. 1837 until posted, 28 June, 1838, employed as Second-Captain in the 78 and  104, both commanded by Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, the latter as flag-ship of Sir Robt. Stopford in the Mediterranean. In the he escorted the Infante Don Carlos of Spain from Portugal to this country.

 SAINTHILL. 

, born 18 May, 1788, is eldest son of the late Nich. Sainthill, Esq.,