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ADAMS—ADAMSON—ADDERLEY—ADDINGTON. notorious for its injury to commerce and the frequency of its insults to the British flag. Capt. Adams’ long, arduous, and highly useful services were at length rewarded, on his return to England, with a Post-commission, dated 18 Dec. 1843. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Adams at present holds the civil appointment of Slave Commissioner at Loango. Having lost his first wife in Sept. 1843, he married, secondly, in 1846, Elizabeth Hurst, daughter of Henry Ellis, Esq., of the city of Dublin. – Joseph Woodhead.

 ADAMS. 

(a) was born 26 Dec. 1781. This officer entered the Navy, 9 July, 1803, as a Volunteer, on board the, Capt. John Dilkes, flag-ship at Plymouth of Admirals John Colpoys and Wm. Young. From Dec. 1805, until May, 1811, he served as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on the Channel, Mediterranean, and Baltic stations, of the 98, Capts. Fras. Fayerman and Jas. Nicoll Morris; and he then successively joined the 100,  98, and  74. Of the latter ship, commanded in the West Indies by Capt. John Halliday, he was confirmed a Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1815. He was placed on half-pay 26 Aug. following, and has not, since been employed.

 ADAMS. 

(b) entered the Navy 6 March 1810; passed his examination in 1817; and obtained his commission 25 April, 1829. He has since been on half-pay.

 ADAMSON. 

entered the Navy, 21 June, 1803, as Midshipman, on board the 100, Captain, afterwards Rear-Admiral, the Earl of Northesk, under whom he fought as Master’s Mate at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, and on the completion of the victory was sent to assist in navigating the Berwick, one of the captured 74’s. While next attached, from 1806 until 1809, to the 40, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, he witnessed the surrender of a frigate and store-ship – assisted on different occasions in cutting seven merchantmen from under the enemy’s batteries – was once sent to Malta in combined charge of two prizes – and for upwards of two years had charge of a watch. Being invested with the command, in July, 1809, of a gun-boat mounting a long 24-pounder forward and a carronade abaft, with a complement of 37 men, Mr. Adamson, who did not pass his examination until some months afterwards, took an active part in all the operations connected with the expedition to the Walcheren, and was particularly praised by the present Sir Geo. Cockburn for the precision of his fire during the bombardment of Flushing. After a further servitude in the 98, Capt. Jas. Nicoll Morris, and 100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez (to a Lieutenancy in which ship he was confirmed 6 July, 1811), he joined, early in 1812, the 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, with whom he continued actively to serve, in the 80, and  74, on the Home station, until Nov. 1813. He was then successively appointed Senior of the 20, Capt. John Curran, lying at Portsmouth, and  18, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude, in which latter vessel we find him returning home from America with the ratification of the treaty concluded at Ghent between Great Britain and the United States, and subsequently employed in the East Indies in co-operation with the army against the province of Cutch. The being paid off in June, 1817, Mr. Adamson remained unemployed until Nov. 1825, when he obtained an appointment as Agent for Transports afloat. He continued in that service, commanding successively the, , , and transports, in every quarter of the globe, until again placed on half-pay, 22 May, 1832, on which occasion he received a very flattering, unsolicited letter of approbation from the Commissioner at the head of the Transport department. He has not been since able to procure employment.

 ADDERLEY. 

, whose family is of great antiquity in the co. of Stafford, is third son of the late Ralph Adderley, Esq., of Coton, by Dorothy, daughter of Thos. Kynnersley, Esq., of Loxley Park, and widow of Thos. Byrche Savage, Esq., of Elmley Castle, co. Worcester. He is next brother of the present Ralph Adderley, Esq., of Barlaston and Coton Halls; and uncle of Chas. Bowyer Adderley, Esq., M.P. for North Staffordshire.

This officer entered the Navy 4 June, 1796, and afterwards served as Midshipman, on the Irish, West India, Home, and Mediterranean stations, in the 74, Capts. Sir Henry Trollope and Herbert Sawyer, 80, Capts. Sir H. Trollope, Rich. Dacres, and Sir Edm. Nagle, 74, Capt. Henry Lane,  80, Capt. Edw. Pellew, and 100, flag-ship of Lord Nelson. Being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 6 April, 1804, in the 54, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg, he next, in that capacity, joined the 74, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, and had an opportunity of sharing in the action off St. Domingo, 6 Feb. 1806. While afterwards serving in the 110, flag-ship in the Channel of Earl St. Vincent, he was advanced to the rank of Commander, by commission dated 4 Aug. in the latter year. His subsequent appointments appear to have been – 24 Aug. 1809, to the sloop, on the north coast of Spain – 22 Oct. 1810, to the  18, on the Downs station, where, on 21 Feb. 1811, he took La Confiance French privateer, of 16 guns and 62 men – and 14 Aug. 1814, to the  14, in which vessel he further captured, in the Mediterranean, 4 Sept. 1812, the Formica settee, of 2 guns and 25 men. Capt. Adderley, who was posted, 19 July, 1814, into the 74, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Vice-Admiral John Laughame, left that ship on her return home in the following October, and did not again go afloat. He took the retired half-pay 1 Oct. 1846.

He married Anne, only daughter of W. R. Bishton, Esq., of Shakerley House, co. Salop. – Coplands and Burnett.

 ADDINGTON. 

entered the Navy, 27 Jan. 1799, as A.B., on board the 36, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, with whom, and at intervals with Capts. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, Geo. Mundy, and Edw. Durnford King, he continued to serve, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the, , , and frigates, until Feb. 1807; during which period he was very actively employed off Newfoundland, and in the Channel and Mediterranean, in cruizing against the enemy, from whom he assisted in taking a large number of privateers and other armed vessels, and, on one occasion, several richly laden Spanish merchantmen. On 12 March, 1807, he was promoted (from the 110, flag-ship in the Channel of Earl St. Vincent) to a Lieutenancy in the  74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, part of the force employed in the ensuing expedition against Copenhagen. In the course of 1808, Mr. Addington joined the and  74’s, both commanded by his old Captain, Hon. C. Paget, under whom we find him witnessing, in the, the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, and also attending the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809. In Oct. 1810, he sailed in command of the transport, with combustibles intended for the destruction of the Toulon fleet; and from April to Sept. 1811, he next had charge of the  fire-brig, in the Adriatic. From the latter date he remained unemployed until