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Rh At the period of his death he was holding the appointment of Landing-Surveyor in the Customs at St. John’s, New Brunswick.

 SMITH. 

passed his examination 12 Aug. 1844; served as Mate in the steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, 120, Capt. Wm. Fanshawe Martin, 44, Capt. Geo.Robt. Lambert, and steam-sloop, Lieut.-Commander Washington Carr; obtained his commission 9 Nov. 1846; was appointed, 22 April, 1847, for a few months, to the  12, Capt. Adolphus Slade, on the coast of Portugal; and, since 22 June, 1848, has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard.

 SMITH. 

was born 18 May, 1815.

This officer entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1828, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 120, Capts. Edw. Hawker and Geo. Burdett, employed at home and in the Mediterranean. On his return to England with Capt. Burdett as Midshipman in the 84, he was received as a Supernumerary, in June, 1830, on board the  120, Capt. Hyde Parker, lying at Portsmouth; and after again serving with him for a few weeks in the  84, he joined, in the following Oct., the  18, Capts. Chas. Hamlyn Williams and Fras. Vere Cotton, fitting for the North America and West India station. He left that vessel at Halifax in Sept. 1832; he served next, from March, 1834, until April, 1842, off Lisbon and again in the Mediterranean, six years and eight months of the time as Mate, in the 78, Capt. Wm. Elliott, surveying- vessel, Capts. Sackett Hope and Thos. Graves, and steamer, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson; and, on 10 Nov. in the latter year, at which period he had been for nearly three months employed at Portsmouth and at Harwich in the 18, Capt. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and steamer, Capt. John Washington, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 13 Jan. 1843, to the steam-sloop, Capt. John Duffill, fitting at  – 13 March, 1843, and 13 Feb. 1844, to the  and  steam surveying-vessels, commanded on the coast of Ireland by Capt. Geo. Alex. Frazer – and, 29 Oct. 1847, to the command of the steamer, of 136-horse power, on the coast of Africa.

While belonging to the Mr. Smith was on several occasions employed on shore in Montego and Lucca Bays during the insurrection among the negroes in 1831. – Messrs. Chard.

 SMITH. 

entered the Navy 4 Nov. 1812; passed his examination in 1819; and was made Lieutenant, 27 July, 1826, into the 18, Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, on the East India station. His next appointments were – 15 Sept. 1830, to the 74, Capt. Sam. Campbell Rowley, employed on particular service – 6 July, 1832, and 8 Nov. 1833, as First, to the steam-vessel, Capts. Wm. Oliver and Edw. Stanley, and, another steamer, Capts. W. Oliver and Hugh Nurse, both in the Channel – and 3 July, 1835, and 2 Feb. 1838, to the command, in the West Indies, of the and  steamers. He continued in the latter vessel until some months after his promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 23 Nov. 1841; and was afterwards, from 28 Sept. 1842 until Nov. 1846, employed as Additional- Commander of the William and yacht. – Messrs. Chard.

 SMITH. 

passed his examination 20 Sept. 1838; served as Mate in the 80 and  18, Capts. Sir David Dunn and Thos. Baillie, on the Mediterranean, Lisbon, and South American stations, from 1840 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 20 Jan. 1845; and, since 19 Nov. in the latter year, has been employed in the 50, Capt. Henry Byam Martin, in the Pacific.

 SMITH, C.B.

(a) attained the rank of Lieutenant 19 July, 1821; and was appointed in that capacity – 25 April, 1823, to the 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Livingstone, in which ship he continued for about a year and a half – and, 7 May, 1827, as First, to the 10, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, fitting for the West Indies. He was there, 3 Feb. 1828, advanced to the command of the brig; from which vessel he removed, 14 April following, to the  18. He was nominated, 8 Sept. 1829, Acting-Captain of the receiving-ship at Jamaica; and in 1831 he was officially promoted by a commission bearing the same date. His next appointments were, 27 Nov. 1837, and 30 June, 1840, to the 26 and  44, on the East India station, whence he returned in 1843. In the he commanded a highly successful expedition (consisting of that ship, the  16, Hon.E.I.Co.’s vessels  and ;, and transports, , and ) against the town of Aden, in Arabia, where the fortifications were destroyed and the enemy completely subdued; and in the  he distinguished himself by the active part he took in the operations in China. On 19 Aug. 1840, with the 18,  18,  steamer, and  cutter under his orders, he made so prompt and decisive an attack upon the works and barracks erected close to the barrier at Macao, that the Chinese were quickly put to flight, and their intentions against that city frustrated. In 1841 he was present, and was repeatedly thanked for his conduct, at the reduction of Tycocktow, in the action with the Bogue forts, and at the taking of Canton and Amoy. He has been in command, since 1 March, 1848, of the 84, at Sheerness.

Capt. Smith was nominated a C.B. 13 Aug. 1840. He married, at Berne, in Switzerland, 18 Sept. 1844, Anna, eldest daughter of the late Sylvester Costigin, Esq., of Dublin. – John P. Muspratt.

 SMITH. 

(b) entered the Navy, 20 May, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, stationed in Basque Roads; and, from the following Nov. until March, 1813, was employed in the East Indies in the 36, commanded by the latter officer and by Capts. Sam. Leslie and Henry John Peachey, 32, Capt. H. J. Peachey, and  36, Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford. He served next, until Aug. 1815, on the Baltic and Home stations, as Midshipman, in the 32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart and John Brett Purvis, and 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn; and, from Nov. 1816 until Oct. 1821, in North and South America, the Mediterranean, and West Indies, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Admiralty-Midshipman, in the 50, flag-ship of Sir David Milne,  74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, and 42, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Chas. Fahle. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, to which ship, employed at Halifax and in the West Indies, he was confirmed 9 Jan. 1822. He was placed on half-pay in 1823, and was subsequently appointed – 10 Aug. 1826, as First, to the 18, Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, fitting for the Mediterranean, whence he returned in the summer of 1827 – 15 Dec. 1828, in a similar capacity, to the 18, Capts. Geo. Scott and Fras. Vere Cotton, with whom he served for about two years and a half on the African and North America and West India stations – 2 Sept. 1832, again as Senior,