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634 with convoy as Midshipman of the 36, which frigate returned home and was paid off 23 June, 1802. In the following Nov. he joined the 38, Capts. Jas. Hardy and Robt. Honyman, under whom he served as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 27 Sept. 1806 and 28 April, 1807), until wrecked, near the entrance of Milford Haven, 31 Jan. 1808. He consequently, during that period, came into frequent contact with the Boulogne flotilla – assisted at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806 – was present at the capture, 21 Feb. and 4 March following, of the Rolla brig and Volontaire frigate, in Table Bay – attended Sir Home Popham’s ensuing expedition to the Rio de la Plata – served in the same year with the boats at the destruction of a brigantine off Monte Video – participated in the operations of 1807 against Copenhagen – and was at the taking of L’Apropos French privateer of 16 guns and 70 men. In May, 1808, Mr. Lascelles received an appointment to the 74, Capt. Andrew King, lying in the Downs. He was next, for several months of 1810, employed in the 74, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, on the Baltic station, whence excessive fatigue obliged him to invalid; and he lastly, from 10 Sept. 1812, until advanced to the rank of Commander 27 Aug. 1814, served in the Channel and Mediterranean on board the 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling.

He married, 30 Nov. 1830, Henrietta, second daughter of Sam. Higham, Esq., of Torrington Square, London, by whom he has issue one daughter.

 LASH. 

entered the Navy 31 Jan. 1810; passed his examination in 1817, and obtained his commission 29 Jan. 1828. He has since been on half-pay.

He married, 28 Dec. 1839, Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of the late J. Harris, Esq., of Pentonville, and was left a widower 27 June, 1841.

 LASTON. 

entered the Navy, in Sept. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 38, Capts. Geo. Castle and Jahleel Brenton. Continuing in that ship until April, 1809, he served in her boats at the cutting out of a vessel under the batteries of Civita Vecchia, participated in an attempt made to cut off a convoy under the batteries of Leghorn, and was present in an attack upon a disguised armed polacre off Nice, on which occasion he brought off the barge and pinnace with only three men, and received a severe contusion. On leaving the Mr. Laston became Master’s Mate of the  10, Capts. John Duff Markland, Chas. Borough Strong, and Lord John Hay, with whom, it appears, he was for a period of six years employed on the Mediterranean, West India, and Lisbon stations. While so attached he assisted, as Acting-Lieutenant, at the capture and destruction of some gun-boats under the Castle of Duino, cooperated in the defence of Sicily, and was often engaged with enemy’s gun-vessels in the Faro of Messina. His official advancement to the rank he now holds took place 15 Feb. 1815. He shortly afterwards joined the 74, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose; and in the following year, we are informed, he was present at the bombardment of Algiers. His last appointments were- – in 1824 and 1830, as a Supernumerary, to the and, Coast Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – and, 18 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard, in which he remained until the close of 1839. – Coplands and Burnett.

 LA TOUCHE. 

is one of the 14 children of the late Peter La Touche, Esq., of Bellevue, co. Wicklow, by the Hon. Charlotte Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Viscount Hawarden. His grandfather, the Right Hon. David La Touche, of Marlay, co. Dublin, was for many years Member in the Irish Parliament for his own borough of Newcastle and other places.

This officer entered the Navy 3 Feb. 1825; served as Midshipman of the 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, at the bombardment of the Morea Castle in 1828; and passed his examination in 1832. Becoming Mate of the, Capt. Price Blackwood, he proceeded in that ship to China, where he assisted, in 1834, in forcing the passage of the Boca Tigris. For his services on the coast of Syria and at St. Jean d’Acre in the 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, Mr. La Touche was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His appointments haye since been, on the North America and West India station – 21 April, 1841, as Additional, to the 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey – 27 Aug. 1841, to the 26, Capt. John Parker, with whom he returned home and was paid off in 1842 – 19 Sept. 1843, again as Additional, to the  72, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Adam – 1 Jan. 1844, as First, to the 16, Capt. Robt. Sharpe – and, 17 Nov. 1844, in a similar capacity, to the 72, bearing the broad pendants of Commodores Alex. Renton Sharpe, Dan. Pring, and Geo. Robt. Lambert at Jamaica, where he is still employed. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 LAUGHARNE. 

was born in June, 1786.

This officer entered the Navy, 8 April, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capt. Rich. Hill, on the Irish station; removed, as Midshipman, in March, 1799, to the 64, flagship at Newfoundland of Hon. Wm. Waldegrave; and, from 1800 until April, 1805, served on the Home and Halifax stations in the 38, Capt. John Giffard,  74, Capt. John Bligh, and  40, Capts. Wm. Bradley and John Poo Beresford. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the 10, Capt. Keilly, and, after a servitude of seven months in that vessel, proceeded in the  sloop, Capt. John Simpson, to the West Indies, where, on joining the  74, flag-ship of Hon. Alex. Cochrane, he took part in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. In the course of the following month he received an order to act as Lieutenant of the 32, Capt. Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman, in which frigate (being confirmed to her on 8 of the following Aug.) he continued to serve until June, 1809, witnessing during that period the siege of Monte Video, the embarkation of the army after the battle of Corunna, and the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads. Sailing next for the Cape of Good Hope in the store-ship, Mr. Laugharne there, in Nov. 1809, joined the  36, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, under whom, it appears, he was present in a dashing attack made on the enemy’s batteries and troops at Jacotel, in the Mauritius, 1 May, 1810, as also at the capture, in the following July, of the Ile de Bourbon. On 13 Sept. 1810, being then Senior of the 38, Capt. Josias Rowley, we find him recommended to the favourable notice of the Commander-in-Chief for the steadiness and zeal he manifested at the re-capture of H.M.S.  in the presence of two French frigates; and on 21 of the same month he presents himself to our notice as contributing to the capture, after a spirited action of 10 minutes, and a loss to the  of 2 men wounded, and to the enemy of 9 killed and 15 wounded, of La Vénus, of 44 guns and 380 men, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hamelin, and of her prize the  32. Being again strongly recommended for his able assistance in taking charge of and conducting into port both the and La Vénus, Lieut. Laugharne was promoted, 11 Oct. 1810, to the acting-command of the sloop, and ordered to England with despatches announcing Vice-Admiral 