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1082 until Oct. 1834, and from Feb. 1835 until paid off in Jan. 1836; was advanced to his present rank 10 Jan. 1837; and was afterwards, from Aug. 1841 until June, 1843, employed in command of the 104 and  120, flag-ships of Sir Fras. Mason in the Mediterranean, and, from 13 Aug. 1844 until 1848, of the 80, hearing the flag of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour in the Pacific. In the he made prize, 15 Nov. 1833 and 15 June, 1834, of the Paquete da Sol and Duquesa da Braganza slavers – one of them laden with 577 negroes.

On 18 April, 1832, Capt. Smart was nominated a K.H., and in the course of the same year he was created by the King of Prussia a Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, in consideration of his having been selected to accompany from the river Thames to Germany a miniature frigate presented to that monarch by King William IV. He married, 14 Sept. 1848, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of the late B. Sharpe, Esq., of Fleet-street, London, Banker.

 SMITH. 

is brother of Lieuts. and, R.N.; and cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Dec. 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the frigate, Capts. Arthur Batt Bingham and Sam. Burgess, fitting for South America. On that ship being wrecked off Cape Frio 5 Dec. 1830, he returned to England in the 46, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, and in the ensuing March was discharged. In Jan. 1832 he became Midshipman (a rating he had before attained) of the 18, Capt. Spencer Lambert Henry Vassal], then equipping for the East Indies, where he was actively employed in the suppression of piracy in the Straits of Malacca, and took part in two severe conflicts, which terminated in the destruction of the settlements at Poulo Arroa and Poulo Sujee. The having been paid off, he next, in Dec. 1835 (he had passed his examination 5 Aug. preceding), joined, in the capacity of Mate, the  sixth-rate, Capt. Jas. Clark Ross, with whom, in the ensuing Jan., he left England for the purpose of seeking out, and of conveying relief to, some missing whalers who had been frozen up in Baffin Bay. After serving for a few months on the north coast of Spain in the steamer, Capt. Sidney Colpoys Dacres, and for two years among the Orkneys, as extra Mate, in the  surveying-vessel, Master-Commander Geo. Thomas, he was again, in April, 1839, placed under the orders of Capt. J. C. Ross, as Senior Mate, on board the bomb, in which vessel he sailed, in Sept. of the same year, in company with the, on a voyage of discovery to the Antarctic seas. For his services while so; employed he was promoted, 16 Aug. 1841, to the rank of Lieutenant. He came home in Sept. 1843; and since 1844 has been in charge of the observatory at Hobart Town.

 SMITH. 

is second son of the late Andrew Smith, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the Red, by Maria, only child of Wm. Hulke, Esq.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 March, 1812, as Midshipman, on board the, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Morris, lying at Greenock. After serving for a year and seven months at Leith in the 38, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, and 22, Capt. Jas. Green, he joined, in June, 1815, the 38, Capts. Jas. Haldane Tait and Arthur Fanshawe, on the Jamaica station. He was next, from Aug. 1816 until he invalided in Oct. 1820, employed at Home and again in the West Indies in the 10, Capt. Wm. Ramage, 74 and  58, flagships of Rear-Admirals Sir W. J. Hope and Donald Campbell, and  42, Commodore Thos. Huskinson. While attached to the he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Aug. 1819, and was actively engaged in her boats in the suppression of piracy. His appointments after he left the were – between 1821 and 1830, to the  28,  120, and  120, flag-ships of Sir John Poo Beresford, Sir Benj. Hallowell, and Sir Jas. Saumarez, at Leith, Sheerness, and Plymouth, to the bomb, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Jas. Scott, a second time to the, and to the 46, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Ogle at Halifax – in July, 1830, to the 18, in the West Indies – 4 Dec. following, to the acting-command, for six months, of the  10 – 4 July, 1831, to the  52, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, again in the West Indies – next, to the 28, on the same station – and, 26 July, 1841, as Senior, to the  72, Capt. John Lawrence, in the Mediterranean. He was present in the in the demonstration made by Sir Harry Burrard Neale before Algiers in 1824; and on 27 Nov. in the same year he chanced to be in the  sloop when wrecked off the coast of Holland. On that occasion, by remaining on board until all had landed, he was the main instrument of saving the lives of 27 of the crew. Since his last promotion, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, he has been on half-pay.

Commander Smith married, in 1836, Agnes Mary, daughter of Thos. Rattray, Esq., by whom he has issue a son and daughter.

 SMITH. 

(a) was born in Dec. 1793.

This officer entered the Navy, 23 Nov. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, attached to the fleet in the Mediterranean, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in May, 1809, and continued to serve in the  18 and  36, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Harvey, until Jan. 1812. He was next, until Dec. 1813, employed in the North Sea and Channel in the 74 and, as Master’s Mate, in the  110, flagships of Admirals Matthew Henry Scott and Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope; and from the latter date until April, 1815, in the capacity last mentioned and as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 38, bearing the flag of Sir W. J. Hope,  14, Capt. Alex. M‘Vicar, 14, Capt. Jas. Murray, 18, Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson, and 10, Capt. Wm. Ramage – all on the Leith station. He was officially promoted 28 Aug. 1815, and served afterwards, from 4 Sept. in that year until 23 Oct. 1816, and from 17 Feb. 1817 until 24 June, 1819, again at Leith, in the, commanded, as before, by Capt. Ramage, and in the 18, Capt. John Windham Dalling. He has not been since afloat.

