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Rh islands and the cutting out of a convoy from Barletta. On being paid oif in Oct. 1815, he took up a commission dated on 24 of the preceding March. His last appointment was, 19 March, 1816, to the 24, Capts. Wm. Elliott and Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, stationed in the North Sea, where he was superseded at his own request 16 Oct. 1817. – J. Hinxman.

 LE MESURIER. 

, born 1 Sept. 1795, is brother of Lieut.-General Le Mesurier, late Governor of Alderney.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Jan. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 20, Capt. Philip Fipon, stationed in the Baltic, where, in the same ship, and as Midshipman in the  100, bearing the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he served until March, 1812. He then sailed for the East Indies in the 36, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby, which frigate, when in the China Sea in the following Sept., had the misfortune to be dismasted in a typhoon. On his return to England with Capt. Digby in the 74, Mr. Le Mesurier, in Oct. 1813, joined the  32, Capts. Jas. Pattison Stewart and John Brett Purvis, and, until the close of the American war, was employed at Bermuda. For a short period in the summer of 1815, in May of which year he passed his examination, we find him on duty at Portsmouth in the 98, Capt. Edm. Boger. Being appointed, in July, 1816, Admiralty-Midshipman of the bomb, Capt. Constantine’ Rich. Moorsom, he assisted in that vessel at the bombardment of Algiers; after which, and until confirmed in his present rank, 12 Nov. 1824, he served in the same capacity, and also as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, 20, Capt. Robt. Gambier, 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibley, 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, frigate, Capt. Joseph Nourse, and  18, Capt. Isham Fleming Chapman – on the Home, Mediterranean, American, and Cape of Good Hope stations. He continued to officiate as Lieutenant of the latter vessel until July, 1825, when, being at the time at the Mauritius, he was compelled to invalid and return to England in consequence of the repeated attacks of a severe complaint which for the last ten years has completely laid him up. From 10 April, 1826, until May, 1827, Mr. Le Mesurier served at Plymouth in the 120, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez.

He married, 11 Sept. 1828, Jane Catherine, only daughter of the late Thos. Cecil Maunsell, Esq., of Thorpe Malsor, co. Northampton, by whom he has issue five sons.

 LEMPRIERE. 

obtained his first commission 25 May, 1807; was advanced to the rank of Commander 30 Jan. 1813; procured an appointment to the hospital and receiving ship at Cork 7 May, 1814; acquired the rank of Captain 27 May, 1825; and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Lempriere has been twice married – the second time, 10 Aug. 1833, to Frances, daughter of Wm. Dumaresq, Esq., of Pelham Place, Hampshire. He has issue.

 LE NEVE. 

entered the Navy, 25 Dec. 1806, as L. M., on board the 74, Capts. Geo. Hart, Valentine Collard, Matthew Forster, Fred. Watkins, and Thos. Harvey. While in that ship, which bore the flag of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell, we find him present as Midshipman at the surrender of Heligoland in Sept. 1807, and afterwards employed in escorting the trade through the Great Belt, where he constantly came into collision with the Danish gun-boats. Removing, in Feb. 1810, to the 50, Capt. Wm. Hanwell, he accompanied a convoy in that ship to China; on his return whence, in Dec. 1811, he joined the 36, Capts. Geo. Burdett and Wm. Skipsey, with whom, until Dec. 1814, he served as Master’s Mate on the North American station. He then took up a commission bearing date 25 July in the latter year; and was lastly, from 24 Nov. 1815 until 6 June, 1816, employed with Capts. Wm. Skipsey and Edw. Chetham, in the 50, on Home service. – Joseph Woodhead.

 LENNOCK. 

entered the Navy, in May, 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. Chas. Edm. Nugent; and sailed, towards the close of the same year, with the expedition intended for the reduction of the French West India Islands. In Aug. 1794, being at the time in the 36, Capt. Elias Harvey, we find him assisting at the apparent destruction, near the Penmarcks, of the French 36-gun frigate Volontaire, and corvettes Espion and Alert. After again serving with Capt. Nugent, as Midshipman, in the 80, and  74, and with Capt. Eras. Pickmore in the, Mr. Lennock, in March, 1796, joined the 50, Capt. Henry Mowat, on the North American station, where he witnessed the capture, 28 Aug. following, of the French frigate Elisabeth of 36 guns, and where he continued to serve as Master’s Mate in the  64, Capt. Robt. Murray, and as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 16 April and 29 Nov. 1800), in the 64, Capt. John Okes Hardy, until the peace of Amiens. His subsequent appointments were – 28 Oct. 1802, to the Sea Fencibles – 14 Sept. 1804, to the again, Capt. John Temple, on the Home station – 22 Aug. 1805, to the  64, Capts. Thos. Harvey, Aiskew Paffard Hollis, and Joshua Sydney Horton, in which ship, during a continuance of five years and a half, he assisted at the passage of the Dardanells, and the reduction of the island of Anholdt – 22 April, 1811, to the 74, also commanded by Capt. Horton, and employed at the defence of Cadiz – and 7 Dec. following, to the  74, Capt. Philip Wilkinson, stationed in the Baltic, where he remained until May, 1813. He was placed on the Junior List of Retired Commanders 26 Nov. 1830; and on the Senior 11 Sept. 1845.

 LENNOCK. 

entered the Navy, in April, 1789, as Captain’s Servant, on board the frigate, Capt. Robt. Murray, with whom he was for three years employed in the West Indies, latterly in the capacity of Midshipman. Returning to the same station (after he had been for a short time attached on Home service to the 32, Capt. Sam. Hood) in the  64, Capt. Chas. Edm. Nugent, he there co-operated in the reduction of the French Islands, and afterwards joined the 98, flag-ship of Sir John Jervis. He was made Lieutenant, 8 May, 1795, into the sloop, Capt. John O’Brien, at Newfoundland; and was subsequently appointed – 11 Nov. 1795, to the  50, Capt. Henry Mowat, under whom he witnessed the capture, 28 Aug. 1796, of the French 36-gun frigate Elisabeth, off Cape Henry – 21 April, 1798, to the  74, bearing the flag at Halifax of Vice-Admiral Vandeput – 11 Aug. following, to the  64, Capts. Robt. Murray and John Dawson, employed, until the peace, on the same station and in the Baltic and North Sea – 28 Sept. 1802, to the alias  36, Capts. Hon. John Colville and David Atkins, in one of whose boats, on his return to the West Indies, he was severely wounded in an attempt to cut a privateer out from St. Jago – and in 1805-6, to the