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Rh year, 1805, until the spring of 1810, we find Mr. Lambert employed on the Channel and Cape of Good Hope stations, principally as Midshipman, in the 74, and  50, flag-ships of the late Sir Albemarle Bertie. He then became attached to the 36, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, under whom, we are informed, he took part in the boats in a gallant attack made on the enemy’s batteries and troops at Jacotel, in the Mauritius. He also assisted, in July, 1810, at the capture of Ile de Bourbon; and on 17 Aug. he landed, we believe, at the storming of a fort on Pointe du Diable, in the Isle of France. He witnessed, next, the capture of Ile de la Passe; was on board the when she compelled the enemy’s sloop Victor to surrender, and exchanged broadsides with the 40-gun frigate Minerve; and was slightly wounded during a series of unhappy although heroic operations, which, by 28 Aug., terminated in the self-destruction, in Port Sud-Est, of the British frigates  and, and the capture, by a French squadron, of the  and  – the former after being reduced to a mere wreck, and incurring a loss of nearly her whole crew. Being restored to liberty on the fall of the Isle of France in the following Dec, Mr. Lambert returned to England in frigate, Lieut.Commander Edw. Grimes. In Nov. 1812, having been for the last 15 months employed in the and  sloops, Capts. Robt. Forbes and Robt. Lisle Coulson, on the Plymouth and Cork stations, be was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the, of 18 guns and 122 men, Capt. Wm. Peake; which sloop (of whose crew 5, including the Commander, were killed, and 33 wounded) was sunk, at the close of a desperate action of 25 minutes, by the American ship Hornet, of 20 guns and 165 men, 1 only of whom was killed and 2 wounded. On his release from captivity in May, 1814, Mr. Lambert found that he had been promoted to a Lieutenancy in the 36, Capt. Chas. Napier, by commission dated 6 Dec. 1813. In the following Aug., being still in that ship, he accompanied Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon’s brilliant expedition up the Potomac, and was in consequence present at the capture of Fort Washington, the capitulation of Alexandria, and the destruction of the American batteries on the banks of the river. During these operations he was again slightly wounded. He invalided from the in the month ensuing, and was lastly, from July to Sept. 1815, employed on the Leith station in the  12, Capt. T. Smith.

He married 24 March, 1816, and has issue six children. – Holmes and Folkard.

 LAMBERT. 

passed his examination 7 Sept. 1844; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 9 Nov. 1846, was serving on the south-east coast of America as Mate of the 50, Commodore Sir Thos. Herbert. He is now on half-pay.

 LAMBERT. 

, a son of Robt. Lambert, Esq., many years a Captain R.N., is brother of the late Vice-Admiral Robt. Lambert, and the late Capt. Henry Lambert, R.N., and of two gentlemen holding high rank in the Army.

This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Chas. Rowley. Continuing in that ship for a period of five years, he attended in consequence the expedition to the Walcheren, co-operated in the defence of Cadiz in 1810, assisted at the capture, 22 Nov. 1811, of La Corceyre frigate, carrying 28 guns, together with 170 seamen and 130 soldiers, and beheld the fall, in 1813, of Fiume, Trieste, and other places in the Adriatic. After a further servitude of eleven months in the 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, on the Channel station, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 May, 1815, and appointed to the  36, Capt. Thos. Forrest. Quitting the latter frigate in Jan. 1817, he next, from 1 Jan. 1820, until within a few days of his promotion to the rank of Commander, 19 Jan. 1822, officiated as Flag-Lieutenant, in the 74, to his brother, Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert, on the St. Helena station. On 23 Feb. 1824 Capt. Lambert was awarded command of the sloop, in which we find him employed on particular service until advanced to Post-rank, 8 Aug. 1825. His appointments have since been – 23 Sept. 1831, to the 28, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned home and was paid off 27 Aug. 1835 – 8 Dec. 1845, to the  44, on the North America and West India station – and 23 Jan. 1847, to be Commodore at Jamaica, where he is now serving with his broad pendant in the  72. – Messrs. Chard.

 LAMBERT. 

was born in the early part of 1788, and died at the commencement of 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1800, as A.B., on board the gun-brig, Lieut-Commander Wm. Froth, with whom he served in the North Sea and Baltic until April, 1802. From Jan. 1803 until May, 1804, we find him employed as Fst.-cl. Vol. and Midshipman, in the 38, and Ruby and  64’s, all commanded by Capt. Hon. Fras. Farington Gardner, on the Irish and North Sea stations. During the next three years he presents himself to our notice as again attached to the, commanded at first by Capt. Gardner, but afterwards by Capt. Geo. Tobin, under whom, besides being occasionally employed in escorting convoys, he saw a good deal of boat service on the coast of Cuba, and took part, as Master’s Mate, 5 Oct. 1805, in a severe action of an hour, near Tobago, with La Cyane of 26 and La Naïade of 16 guns, the former of which then surrendered. In the course of 1807 Mr. Lambert successively joined the 110, Capt. Wm. Bedford, 110, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner, and, as Acting-Lieutenant, the  98, Capts. Wm. Lechmere and Geo. Burgoyne Salt, to which ship he was confirmed by commission dated 7 May, 1808. His subsequent appointments were – 1 Sept. 1810, to the 18, Capts. Chas. Montagu Fabian and Nevinson De Courcy, on the Brazilian station, whence he invalided 18 Feb. 1811 – 20 Jan., 1812, for three months, to the 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, employed on the coast of France – 29 April, 1813, to the 74, Capt. Augustus Brine, with whom he proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope – 22 May, 1814, to the  18, commanded by Capt. Thos. Griffith Allen, and also, for five months, by himself, off the Isle of France – and lastly, 7 Feb. 1815, again to the, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Tyler at the Cape, whence he returned to England in April, 1816. In July, 1814, while First of the, Mr. Lambert took command of her boats and, at great peril, rescued the crew of L’Eugénie schooner, who had been wrecked, on 19 of the previous April, on Sandy Island, while on their passage from the Seychelles to the Manritius. The Master and one seaman belonging to the Harpy were on the occasion drowned by the upsetting of a boat. The subject of the foregoing narrative accepted the rank of Retired Commander 30 April, 1845. 