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652 , Lieut.-Commander Chas. C. Ormsby, then at Portsmouth. He was made Lieutenant, 19 March, 1805, into the sloop, Capt. Major Jacob Henniker, but, exchanging back a few months afterwards into the, continued in that ship, which was latterly commanded by Capt. Matthew Henry Scott, until paid off at the close of 1808. He then became First-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Philip Browne, with whom (following him in July, 1811, into the  20) we find him employed, on the Home and South American stations, until the end of the war. He assisted during that period at the capture of many privateers, and was in the in the expedition to the Walcheren, where he served under the broad pendant of the present Sir Geo. Cockbnm, who, both personally and by letter, expressed his acknowledgments for the meritorious conduct he had displayed. He accepted his present rank 15 July, 1837. Agents – Messrs. Chard.

 LETHBRIDGE. 

was born 24 Nov. 1793.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 Feb. 1809, as Jst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. Joseph Nourse, on the Mediterranean station, where he followed the same Captain as Midshipman into .the  38, and continued, latterly in the  120, Capt. Edw. Kittoe, until Aug. 1811. , He then returned to England with Capt. Robt. Waller Otway in the 74; and towards the close of the year, having been received on board the  38, Capt. Geo. Tobin, proceeded off the north coast of Spain. While there he served at the blockade of St. Sebastian, preparatory to its reduction, and, on 23 Oct. 1813, assisted at the capture of La Trave, of 44 guns and 321 men, which ship surrendered, after a short but smart action, and a loss of 1 man killed and 28 wounded. In the spring of 1814 Mr. Lethbridge participated in the operations up the Gironde, where, on shore and afloat, we-find him concerned in the destruction of a French line-of-battle-ship, three brigs of war, several smaller vessels, and all the forts and batteries on the north side of the river. In July, 1814, he removed to the 38, Capt. Joseph James, and during the two following years was stationed in the West Indies. Having passed his examination 3 July, 1815, he was next, between Oct. 1816 and the period of his advancement to the rank of Lieutenant 28 April, 1827, employed at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and the Cape of Good of Hope, and again on the Home station, as Admiralty-Midshipman and Mate, in the 100, Capt. Edm. Soger, 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, 26, Capt. Geo. Rennie, 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, 18, Capt. Wm. Benj. Suckling (under whom he was wrecked on a reef of rocks, off Langness Point, Isle of Man, 14 Dec. 1822), 18, Capt. Wm. Simpson, and 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot. At the period of his proemotion Mr. Lethbridge, who has since been on half-pay, was the oldest Mate, as to age, in the service.

 LETHBRIDGE. 

entered the Navy, 5 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. Jas. Vashon, Herbert Sawyer, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds; of which ship; stationed in the Channel, he became Midshipman 7 April, 1804. Removing, in May, 1805, to the 36, Capts. Chas. Ogle and Pat. Campbell, he was for five .years and a half employed under those officers on the Mediterranean station, where – besides assisting, in May, 1808, at the taking of Il Ronco brig of war, of 16 guns and 100 men, and, in June following, at the simultaneous capture of the Nettuno and Toulie, of similar force – he commanded one of six boats belonging to the and  in an affair near Toulon, and was officially commended for his conduct in defending, in a 10-oared cutter, four prizes, taken on the occasion, against the subsequent attacks of six armed boats. On 29 Oct. 1810, and 17 Jan. 1811, he was successively appointed an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant of the 74, Capts. Robt. Barton and Alex. Wilmot Schomberg, with whom we find him successively employed in the Mediterranean and North Sea until May, 1813. His last appointment was, on 9 Nov. in the latter year, to the 74, Capt. Lord Wm. Stuart, stationed at first in the Channel and then in the West Indies, whence he returned in Sept. 1814. – Pettet and Newton.

 LETT. 

was born 2 Nov. 1801, at Enniscorthy, co. Wexford.

This officer entered the Navy 15 July, 1815; passed his examination in 1821.; and,. as a reward for his meritorious services as Mate of the 18, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, during the war in Ava, was made Lieutenant, 26 Dec. 1826, into the  sloop, Capt. Wm. Burdett Dobson, with whom he returned home and was paid off in April, 1827. He has been in charge, since 3 April, 1837, of a station in the Coast Guard.

 LEVELL. 

was born 19 Jan. 1788, at Bildeston, in Suffolk.

This officer entered the Navy, 25 Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol,, on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Robt. Stopford, Robt. Tucker, and John Nash, with whom he served in the Channel and West Indies until May, 1803 – the-last two years in the capacity of Midshipman. After a short attachment to the frigate, Capt. Willoughby Thos. Lake, he rejoined Capt. Stopford,.in the course of the latter year, on board the 74, in which ship, commanded subsequently by Capt. John Quilliam, he was for upwards of five years employed. During that period we find him assisting at the blockade of Ferrol, Corunna, and Toulon; uniting in Lord Nelson’s pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies and back; participating in Sir John Duckworth’s search after the celebrated Rochefort squadron; present, 6 Feb. 1806, in the action off St. Domingo; escorting General Crawford and. a body of troops to the Cape of Good Hope; and serving on shore, in the erection of batteries, at the siege of Copenhagen. Having passed his examination 1 July, 1807, Mr. Levell was nominated, 14 Sept. 1808, Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Thos. Swain; and on 27 Jan. 1809 was promoted to the full rank of Lieutenant. Being then appointed to the of 20 guns and 121 men, Capts. John Crispo and Arthur Batt Bingham, it was his fortune, on 16 May, 1811, to be on board that sloop in the furious and well-known action fought between her and the American 44-gun frigate President, whose fire in half an hour killed and wounded 32 of the British. He was paid off from the in Sept. 1811; and was afterwards appointed – 25 Jan. 1812, to the  18, Capt. Tim. Clinch,iin the boats of which sloop he was occasionally, employed up the river Elbe – 12 Jan. and 28 June, 1813, to the 12, Capt. Chas. Hope Reid, and, of similar force, Capts. John Baldwin and Job Hamner, with whom he served until put out of commission in Aug. 1814 – and, lastly, 8 May, 1815, to the command of a Telegraph station in the county of Surrey, where he was relieved in the following March. While in the, Mr. Levell was engaged in escorting convoys to Gottenborg; and on one occasion, when off the Skawe, look command of her boats, and drove a Danish privateer cutter on shore. He accepted the rank he now holds 3 Feb. 1847.

Commander Levell is married, and has issue three sons and two daughters.

