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Rh , 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. He then proceeded to the Mediterranean in the 36, Capt. Thos. Chas. Brodie, through whose recommendation and that of his former Captain, Bissett, he was ordered, on his arrival home with convoy towardp the close of 1809, to the West Indies for the purpose of joining Sir Alex. Cochrane as Admiralty Mate on promotion. After he had accordingly served with that officer for six months in the 74, and  98, he was nominated, 16 July, 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the  18, Capt. Thos. Whinyates. It was not, however, until he had again served as Master’s Mate in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, and once more as Acting-Lieutenant in the sloop, that he succeeded in obtaining official promotion. His commission bears date 10 Sept. 1811. After twelve months of half-pay Mr. Imrie was next, in Sept. 1812, appointed to the 12, Capt. Sam. Blyth, fitting at Portsmouth, where, in the following month, he removed to the 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, with whom he cruized in the Channel until March, 1813. Joining, 1 July following, the 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, he was first employed at the blockade of Rochefort, and afterwards, in April, 1814, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose, during the operations up the Gironde, where he witnessed the destruction of a French line-of-battle ship, three brigs of war, several smaller vessels, and of all the forts and batteries on the north side of the river. He left the 28 June, 1814; and was lastly, from 13 Nov. 1841, until the early part of 1846, employed as an  for Transports Afloat.

Lieut. Imrie married 27 Sept. 1812; and has issue 10 children.

 INCE. 

entered the Navy 14 Dec. 1828; passed his examination 24 April, 1835; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, was serving in the Mediterranean as Mate of the steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn. He was appointed on 30 of the same month to the 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, also in the Mediterranean; and from 7 March, 1842, until paid off on his return to England in 1846, was employed in the East Indies on board the 18, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood. Commander Ince, who attained his present rank on 9 Nov. in the latter year, is at present on half-pay.

 INCLEDON. 

entered the Navy, in June, 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capts. Michael Seymour and Robt. Keen, on the Channel station, where he continued to serve as Midshipman, latterly in the 98, Capt. Hon. Michael De Courcy, until paid off at the peace. In the summer of 1802 he proceeded to the Mediterranean as Master’s Mate in the 18, Capt. Spelman Swaine; and on that vessel being wrecked, near Mazara, in Sicily, in Jan. 1804, he joined the  74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton. Proceeding in the course of the same year to the East Indies in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, he was there, in March, 1805, appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the, afterwards , 38, Capts. Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, Clement Sneyd, Lord Geo. Stuart, Wm. Warden, Henry Hart, Thos. Groube, Wm. Wells, and Edw. Tucker; to which frigate (being confirmed to her by commission dated 28 Sept. 1807) he continued attached until again wrecked in Madras Roads 2 May, 1811. In Feb. 1810 Mr. Incledon, then First-Lieutenant of the, was strongly recommended by his Captain, Edw. Tucker, to the notice of the Commander-in-Chief, for the very great support he had afforded him in his operations against the island of Amboyna; and in the following Aug. he acquired the further praise of the same officer for his conduct at the reduction of the important island of Ternate. On his arrival home in Aug. 1814, after he had been employed for a prolonged period of three years in the East Indies on board the and  frigates, Capts. Dawson, John Bowen, and Wm. Henry Webley, he found that he had been promoted to the rank of Commander on 4 May in the previous year. He is the senior officer of his rank on the List of 1813.

 INGESTRIE, Viscount, C.B., K.S.L., K.S.A., K.R.G., M.P.

, born 8 Nov. 1803, is eldest surviving son of Earl Talbot, K.G., K.P., formerly Viceroy of Ireland, by Fras. Thomasine, eldest daughter of Chas. Lambert, Esq., of Beau Parc, co. Meath. His Lordship is uncle of the Marquess of Lothian and of Viscount Lewisham.

This officer entered the Navy 6 Feb. 1817; obtained his first commission 1 Jan. 1824; joined, 7 June following, the 42, Capt. Lord Byron; and was promoted, 18 Oct. 1826, to the command of the  10. For his valiant services in the latter vessel at the battle of Navarin, with the despatches relative to which he was sent home, he was advanced to the rank of Captain, by commission dated 22 Oct. 1827, and invested with the orders above indicated. His last appointments were, 9 and 30 Jan. 1834, to the and  28’s, in the latter of which ships he again served in the Mediterranean. He has been on half-pay since 1837.

The Viscount, who is Lieut.-Colonel of the Queen’s Own Regiment of Staffordshire Militia, formerly sat in Parliament for the borough of Hertford and the city of Dublin, and now represents South Staffordshire. He married, 8 Nov. 1828, Sarah Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of Henry, second Marquess of Waterford, and has issue three sons and four daughters. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 INGLEFIELD. 

, born in March, 1820, is son of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, C.B.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Oct. 1832; and embarked, 11 Oct. 1834, as a Volunteer, on board the 6. He removed, in the course of the following month, to the 26, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell; was next, from the early part of 1835 until the close of 1839, employed, chiefly as Midshipman, in the 50, flag-ship of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, and  26, Capt. Henry Wm. Bruce, on the South American station; became Mate, in March, 1840 (having passed his examination in the previous Nov.), of the 84, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley; and after participating in the operations on the cosst of Syria, where he formed one of the storming party at the capture of Sidon, and assisted at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was employed, from Oct. 1841 until June, 1842 (the last three months of the time as Acting-Lieutenant), in the 72, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Adam, and 36, Capt. Henry Forbes, both on the West India station. He was invested (after having attended Her Majesty on the occasion of her visit to Scotland in the yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence) with the rank of Lieutenant 21 Sept. 1842; and next appointed – 25 Nov. 1842, to the  26, Capt. Sir Edw. Belcher, employed as a surveying-vessel in the East Indies – 6 March, 1845, to the 50, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father on the S.E. coast of America, where he removed with him to the  50 – and, a few months afterwards, to the acting-command of the  16. In that vessel it was