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648  of throwing overboard her guns, boats, all her anchors and cables but one, and all but one week’s provisions and water. In Oct. of the same year he removed with Capt. Skene to the 50, commanded next by Capts. John Talbot, Henry Whitby, and Salusbury Pryce Humphreys; and, on 23 Feb. 1805, he was present, under Capt. Talbot, at the capture of La Ville de Milan French frigate oi 46 guns, and re-capture of her prize the 32. Following Capt. Humphreys, in Aug. 1806, into the 50, Mr. Leigh was in that ship on 22 June, 1807, when she compelled the U.S. frigate Chesapeake to surrender, in consequence of a refusal on the part of the latter to allow the British to search her for deserters. In April, 1808, he joined the 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, and after serving, as Master’s Mate, in the North Sea and at the blockade of L’Orient, became attached with that officer to the 98, bearing the flag off Lisbon of Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, who, on 26 June, 1809, nominated him Acting-Lieutenant of the 74, Capts. Edm. Boger and John Sprat Rainier. In the course of the same summer we find Mr. Leith engaged in fitting out some Spanish men-of-war at Ferrol, then threatened by the French. In the following Oct., on 10 of which month he was confirmed a Lieutenant, he went back to the, and on the promotion, in Dec. 1810, of the present Capt. Berkeley, succeeded him in the office of Flag-Lieutenant. Previously, however, to that event, he had been invested with the command (which he retained until the final expulsion of the French army under Massena from Portugal) of the telegraph posts on the lines of Torres Vedras. During the last siege of Badajos Mr. Leith, it appears, was present at the head-quarters of Lord Wellington; and in April, 1811, he was there when it was stormed and carried. The being ordered home in 1812, he was next (after an interval of a few months, the first he had enjoyed since his entrance into the Navy) appointed, in April, 1813, to the  74, Capt. Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Cockburn; previously to accompanying whom into the 74, he took part in the attack upon Hampton, the capture of Ocracoke and Portsmouth islands (whence were brought off the Anaconda of 20, and Atlas of 12 guns), the occupation of Kent Island, and other services. In June, 1814, he returned to England on board the 74. He attained the rank of Commander 13 June, 1815, but was not again employed until Sept. 1822, on 4 of which month we find him appointed to the 18, fitting for the West Indies, where he removed, 28 June, 1825, to the  18, was appointed, 28 June following, Acting-Captain of the  50, and was confirmed, 11 Nov. in the same year, into the  28. Being paid off on his return home with the Duke of Manchester, late Governor of Jamaica, in Sept. 1827, Capt. Leith remained on half-pay until appointed, 6 Feb. 1837, to the 46, in which frigate he was again ordered to the West Indies, there to take charge of the Barbadoes station. On his passage out he took with him the 50, destined to form a dépôt for liberated negroes at the Havana, where he succeeded in installing her after encountering much opposition from the governor. With the exception of a visit to Jamaica, on the occasion of Sir John Strutt Peyton being sent home in 1838, he remained senior officer at Barbadoes until July, 1841, when he sailed for Halifax to recruit his own health and that of his crew. Before his departure, however, he had the satisfaction of being presented with an address and a piece of plate by the inhabitants. He invalided at last from Halifax in Oct. 1841; and has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Leith is married, and has issue.

 LEITH. 

entered the Navy, 24 July, 1804, as Midshipman, on board the bomb, Capt. Alex. Milner, and, until discharged in the following Dec, was employed off Boulogne and in the Downs. Re-embarking, in July, 1806, on board the 74, Capt. Rich. Lee, we find him, in company with a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood, at the capture, 25 Sept. following, of four heavy French frigates from Rochefort, on which occasion the above ship enacted a very conspicuous part, compelled La Minerve, of 44 guns and 650 men, to surrender, and sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 25 wounded. The, it appears, was afterwards employed in blockading the , in escorting, towards the close of 1807, the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils, and in the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809. In Dec. 1811 Mr. Leith removed to the 74, Capt. Matt. Henry Scott, stationed off Flushing and in the Channel, where he served until Aug. 1812. In the following month, the latter officer having hoisted his flag in the 74, he rejoined him on board that ship, in which he continued employed, under Capts. Wm. Lukin and David Lloyd, on the Home and Cork stations, until July, 1815. He then took up a commission dated on 10 of the previous March; and has not been since afloat.

 LEITH. 

entered the Navy, 18 Dec. 1796, as A.B., on board the 98, Capt. Wm. Bowen, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker, with whom he continued to serve, in the Channel, off Cadiz and Lisbon, and in the Mediterranean, as Midshipman of the 98, and again of the, until Sept. 1799. During the next three years and a half we find him employed, on the Home station, in the frigate, Capts. Cook, Glynn, and Campbell; and, on 7 May, 1804, after having for a few months acted as Lieutenant of the 80, and  74, Capts. Edw. Buller and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, formally promoted to that rank. His succeeding appointments were – 19 June, 1804, to the 28, Capt. Philip Somerville, lying at Plymouth – 16 April, 1805, to the  32, in which frigate, commanded by Capts. Broke, Astley, Bennett, Mackay, Bolton, and Louis, he served for nearly six years on the Cork and Cadiz stations, and assisted at the capture of Le Pandour national brig of 18 guns and 114 men – and 30 Sept. 1811, to the 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, whence he invalided in Jan. 1813. He attained his present rank 15 June, 1814; and has since been on half-pay.

 LE MESURIER. 

entered the Navy, in Sept. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, in which ship and in the 50, and  100, all flag-ships of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he continued to serve as Midshipman, on the Guernsey station, until April, 1810, He then joined the 36, commanded off Toulon by Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, and after a short attachment to the 110, Capt. John Duff Markland, was received, in March, 1811, on board the  36, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne; under whom, on 1 of the following May, he assisted, in company with the  38, and, at the destruction, after a gallant action of an hour and a half in Sagone Bay, of the store-ships Giraffe and Nourrice, each mounting from 20 to 30 guns, and both protected by a 5-gun battery, a martello tower, and a body of about 200 regular troops. On 29 May in the same year we find him further contributing to the capture, at the close of a severe running fight of four hours, of the 26-gun store-ship La Persanne, supposed, until the moment of her capture, to be a fully armed frigate. Removing, in July, 1814, to the 38, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, Mr. Le Mesurier was present, in that ship, during the war of 100 days, at the reduction of the Tremiti