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ALLEN—ALLEYN—ALSTON—AMBROSE—AMHERST.  to the Niger, whence he returned towards the close of 1842. He has since been on half-pay. His Post-commission bears date 31 Jan. 1842.

 ALLEN. 

, born 6 Feb. 1787, is son of William Allen, Esq., Admiral of the Red, who died in Oct. 1804; and grand-nephew of Sir Thos. Allen, also an officer in the Navy. An account of these gentlemen’s services will be found in the 1st and 6th volumes of Charnock’s Biographia Navalis.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College about the year 1800; and embarked, in Oct. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Robt. Williams, bearing the broad pendant afterwards of Commodore Wm. Domett, on the Irish station. In June, 1804, he became Midshipman of the 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, from which ship, after bearing a warm part in the battle of Trafalgar, he removed, in Dec. 1805, to the  74, Capt. John Larmour. Early in the following year he rejoined Captain, then Rear-Admiral, Harvey, on board the 80, oif the coast of Spain, where, during a subsequent attachment, as Acting-Lieutenant, to the  18, Capt. Jas. Lucas Yeo, he saw some good service. Being confirmed, 25 March, 1807, into the 74, Capt. Hon. John Colville, Lieut. Allen, in the course of the same and of the following years, accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen (where he commanded an armed boat in several rencounters with the enemy’s flotilla) and escorted home from Lisbon the surrendered Russian fleet. Proceeding to the East Indies towards the close of 1808, as Lieutenant of the 38, Capt. Thos. Briggs, he there became Senior, 24 Aug. 1810, of the alias  44, Capts. Edw. Wallis Hoare, Thos. Gordon Caulfield, Wm. Fisher, and Henry Drury, and was present in that ship at the reduction both of the Mauritius and of the island of Java. He afterwards, when in command of the ’s boats, captured a French schooner, carrying 12 brass six-pounders and 25 men, with two French Colonels on board, charged with despatches from Java. His next appointment, we find, was to the 18, Capt. Robt. Russell, in which sloop he served, as First Lieutenant, from 13 Nov. 1812, until wrecked, oif the mouth of the Courantine River, 8 March, 1815. He subsequently obtained command, in Oct. 1822, and Dec. 1824, of the and, Revenue-vessels; and, acquiring his present rank 28 Aug. 1828, was employed from 31 March, 1831, until April, 1834, as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard. He has not since held any official appointment.

Commander Allen married, 5 Nov. 1815, Miss Ellen Bernie Kirk, and has issue two sons and three daughters.

 ALLEYN. 

entered the Navy, in Oct. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Henry Nichols and Joseph Ellison, on the Channel station, where, and in the Mediterranean and West Indies, he afterwards served, as Midshipman, in the 38, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, 24, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle,  and, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Burlton, 64, Capt. Rich. Incledon, and 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Campbell. While in the, he was wrecked, we believe, off Damietta, on the Egyptian coast, 20 May, 1800. On 23 June, 1802, he became Acting-Lieutenant of the frigate, Capt. John Wentworth Loring; and, on the paying off of that vessel, was confirmed, by commission dated 13 Oct. in the same year. His subsequent appointments were, on the Home and North America stations, to 44, Capts. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming and Hon. Chas. Paget Crescent 36, Capt. Jas. Carthew, 40, Capts. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel and Sir Wm. Bolton, 74, Capt. Wm. Chas. Fahie and 36 Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy. In the and  Mr. Alleyn served for several years as First Lieutenant; previously to which, on the evening of 8 March, 1806, he had commanded the boats of  in conjunction with Lieut. Philip Cosby Haridfield, at the cutting out, under an incessant fire from two batteries, of the French frigate-built privateer L’Alcide, pierced for 34 guns, and moored to the beach an the harbour of Muros, in Spain. Having been unemployed since June, 1814, at which period he invalided from the, Mr. Alleyn at length accepted the rank he now holds, 20 April, 1835. – Case and Loudonsack.

 ALSTON. 

entered the Navy, 26 Dec. 1826; passed his examination 15 Sept. 1835; obtained a commission 28 July, 1841; and from 6 Aug. following until the close of 1842, served in the Mediterranean on board the 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard. He next joined, on 11 Dec. 1844, the steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, stationed off the coast of Africa, where he became First Lieutenant, 2 April, 1845, of the  6, Capt. Jas. Anderson. Since 1846 he has been serving on the same station as Acting-Commander of the.

 AMBROSE. 

entered the Navy, 15 June, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the .32, Capts. Geo. Cockburn and Chas. Ogle, and after serving for some time in the 50, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Horatio Nelson, became Midshipman, in 1797, of the  24, Capts. Hon. Courtenay Boyle and David Lloyd. After attending (in the 44, Capt. John Surman Garden) the expedition to Holland under Sir Andrew Mitchell, he next successively joined the  80, Capt. Thos. Elphinstone, 110, flag-ship of Lords Nelson and St. Vincent,  and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, and 98, flag-ship in the West Indies of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. He fought, while in the, at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, and was present, in the , at the passage of the Dardanells, in Feb. 1807. Being appointed Acting-Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1809, of the 18, Capts. Sam. Geo. Pechell, and Colin and Donald Campbell, he assisted in that sloop at the proximate reduction of Martinique. His appointment to the being confirmed by commission dated 10 Feb. 1810, Mr. Ambrose, who appears to have officiated for some time as her Acting-Captain, subsequently became Lieutenant, in Dec. 1810, Feb. 1812, and Aug. 1813, of the  18, Capt. Thos. Edw. Symonds, 74, bearing the flag of Sir Geo. Hope, and prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Coett – all on the Home station. From 28 Feb. 1814, to 8 June, 1816, he was next employed as an Agent for Transports afloat; after which he served in the Coast Guard for a short time during the year 1822, and was in charge, from 14 May, 1831, to 1 July, 1834, of the Platform Semaphore at Portsmouth. He has been occupied, since 2 Nov. 1840, as Admiralty- Agent in a Contract Mail Steamvessel.

During the late war Lieut Ambrose was also employed in the gun-boat service at Gibraltar.

 AMHERST. 

is son of the late Gen. Amherst.

This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1809, on board the 98, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon. With that officer (if we except a brief attachment, towards the conclusion of the war, to the 32,  36, and  18, Capts. 