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1080 abode at Hartwell House, In Buckinghamshire. He then conveyed it back to Dunkerque. Although the event was considered of so much importance that its announcement was accompanied by a discharge from the Park and Tower guns, Capt. Slaughter, contrary, we believe, to the custom prevalent on such occasions, was not promoted; nor was any part of the expense he had incurred (amounting to 230l.) restored to him. He afterwards accompanied the expedition against New Orleans. He paid off the in Sept. 1815; and was lastly, from 2 July, 1829, until 1832, employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He was nominated a K.H. 1 Jan. 1837; and advanced, 10 of the same month, to Post-rank. Capt. Slaughter has been three times wounded. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 SLEIGH. 

was born in Oct. 1796, and died about the commencement of 1848.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1809, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the 20, Capt. Edw. Wallis Hoare, stationed on the coast of Ireland, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in Feb. 1810, and removed, in the following Dec, to the sloop, Capt. Henry Haynes. He served next, from May, 1811, until Aug. 1814, in the 38, Capt. Hassard Stackpoole, in the West Indies and North America; and from March, 1815, until March, 1816, as Master’s Mate, in the  and  troop-ships, commanded on the station last named and at Portsmouth by Capt. Dan. Lawrence. On 3 April, 1813, being then in the, he assisted in the boats of a squadron containing 105 men, under the orders of Lieut. Jas. Polkinghorne, at the capture, 15 miles up the Rappahannock river, of four schooners, carrying in the whole 31 guns and 219 men – an exploit whose achievement inflicted on the British a loss of 2 men killed and 11, including himself, wounded, and on the enemy of 6 killed and 10 wounded. On leaving the Mr. Sleigh, who had been on another occasion wounded, took up a commission bearing date 2 Nov. 1815. He was afterwards, from 16 Nov. 1832 until 1836, employed in the Coast Guard; and from 9 Oct. 1841 until 1847 in command of the Semaphore at Haslemere, Haste Hill.

He married, in Oct. 1818, a daughter of Robt. Swayne, Esq., of Bantyre, co. Cork, and cousin of the late Earl of Listowell, by whom he has left issue six children.

 SLIGHT. 

entered the Navy 2 July, 1829; passed his examination 8 Feb. 1836; and on the paying off of the 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, in which ship he had been serving in the Mediterranean, was promoted, 7 Feb. 1842, to the rank he now holds. His appointments have since been – 10 March, 1842, to the troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey – 28 July following, to the 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, of which vessel, stationed in the Pacific, he became First-Lieutenant – and, in the latter capacity (shortly after the had been put out of commission) to the  steam-frigate of 560 horse-power, Capt. Wm. Hutcheon Hall, under whom he is now employed on particular service.

 SLOAN. 

was born about 1780.

This officer (who had previously been in the merchant-service) entered the Navy, 4 July, 1803, as A.B., on board the sloop, Capts. Edw. Bass, Jas. Robt. Philips, Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, and Jas. Stevenson; in which vessel he was for upwards of four years and a half chiefly employed in the Channel. In 1807 he accompanied, in the capacity of Master-Mate (a rating he had attained in April, 1805), the expedition against Copenhagen; where, on the surrender of the Danish fleet, he assisted in fitting out the 24. On his return to England in the Sarpen 18, another of the prizes, he assisted in dismantling the rest of the captured ships. He was subsequently employed – from 23 April, 1808, until 8 Oct. 1811, as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant (order dated 17 Nov. 1810) in the 38, Capt. Hon. Fred. Paul Irby, on the coast of France and Spain and among the Western Islands – from 9 Oct. 1811 until 21 April, 1812, as a Supernumerary Midshipman, in the, Capt. Robt. Hall, at Spithead – from 22 April until 26 Aug. 1812, as Admiralty- Midshipman, in the 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon in South America – and from 26 Aug. in the latter year until 29 Aug. 1814, as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 30 Dec. 1812) in the  20, Capt. Burnaby Greene, on the same, the Home, and West India stations. In the he contributed to the destruction of three French frigates under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, 24 Feb. 1809; witnessed the capture of La Mouche corvette of 16 guns and 180 men. La Rejouie national brig of 8 guns and 51 men, a schooner of 1 gun and 25 men, two armed luggers with cargoes (all taken on one occasion, in company with the 38) and Le Charles privateer of 20 guns, 300 tons, and 170 men; and aided in causing the self-destruction, 25 March, 1811, of L’Amazone, a French frigate of the largest class, which had been driven into a bay near Cape Barfleur. While Mr. Sloan was acting as First-Lieutenant in the that ship unfortunately took the ground, with nearly half a million of money on board, and was in consequence obliged to be hove down. The specie was forthwith discharged into a Portuguese vessel, and sent home under the care of himself and the Master, the only officers on board. Since Aug. 1814 the Lieutenant, who had not until then been more than six weeks on shore since he entered the Navy, has been on half-pay.

 SLOLY. 

entered the Navy, in Oct. 1802, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the cutter, Lieut.- Commander Jeremiah Coghlan, stationed in the Channel, where he removed, as Fst.-cl. Vol., in Sept. 1803, to the 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew. He was afterwards, from 9 May, 1804, until his return to England in Nov. 1812, employed in the East Indies, as L.M. and Midshipman, on board the 74, bearing the flag of the officer last mentioned. 32, Capts. Henry Hart and Wm. Wells, 74, Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, and 36, Capt. Wm. Jones Lye; and from 11 May until 6 Oct. 1815, again in the Channel, in the 20, Capt. Robt. Gambier. In the he assisted at the capture and destruction, 27 Nov. 1806, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs-of-war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels lying in Batavia Roads; and at the annihilation at Griessee, 11 Dec. 1807, of the dockyard and stores, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in India. In the he co-operated in the reduction of the island of Java. On leaving the in Oct. 1815 he was presented with a commission dated 13 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Sloly married, 3l Jan. 1829, Emma, eldest daughter of B. Gribble, Esq., of Walworth.

 SLYMAN. 

was born 4 Oct. 1792.

This officer entered the Navy, 9 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke; in which ship and in the  98, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, he served in the Channel until May, 1808. He then became Midshipman, also on the Home station, of the 80, commanded at first by Sir J. S. Yorke and next by Capt. Rich. Harward as Flag-Captain to Sir Edw. Pellew; and from Sept. 1810