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Rh LINDSEY. 

entered the Navy, 1 Nov. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 110, Capt. John Tremayne Rodd, hearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Chas. Cotton; and from Dec. 1806 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 June, 1810, was employed off L’Orient, and on the Lisbon, Cork, and Mediterranean stations, as Midshipman, in the 32, Capts. Geo. Miller, Henry Manaton Ommanney, and Geo. Fras. Seymour, 120, flag-ship of Sir C. Cotton,  38, Capt. Edw. Brace, and again in the San Josef. He was then appointed to the 74, Capt. Sir Rich. King, and he afterwards joined – 5 Jan. 1811, the 38, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, also in the Mediterranean – 1 May, 1812 (after an interval of four months), the  20, Capt. John Simpson, on the West India station – 23 Oct. 1813, the  32, Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King, employed off Helvoetsluys – and 22 June, 1814, the 104, bearing the flag of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, whom he accompanied to Bordeaux. He was advanced to his present rank 27 Aug. following; and has since been on half-pay. – Hallett and Robinson.

 LIPSCOMB. 

, born 24 Aug. 1796, is son of the late Rev. W. Lipscomb, Rector of Welbury, Yorkshire; and nephew of the gallant Capt. John Cooke, R.N., who fell at Trafalgar, in command of the 74.

This officer entered the Navy, 10 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 16, Capt. Thos. White, part of the force on the Newfoundland station. Becoming attached, in March, 1811, to the 74, Capts. Edw. Leveson Gower and Gardiner Henry Guion, he was for upwards of four years employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of that ship off Lisbon, and also in the Mediterranean and Adriatic, where he served in the boats at the capture and destruction of many of the enemy’s armed vessels, and was present at the reduction, in June and July, 1813, of the towns of Omago, Dignano, and Fiumé. He next, in Oct. 1815, joined the 46, Capt. Philip Carteret, on the Jamaica station, whence he returned to England in Sept. 1817; and he was afterwards (he had passed his examination in Aug. 1816) employed, between Jan. 1819 and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 3 May, 1826, on board the  60, flag-ship ot Rear-Admiral Edw. Griffith, 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Hoste, and 76, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale – on the North American, Home, and Mediterranean stations. He then obtained an appointment to the 50, flagship at Jamaica of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted, with whom he returned to England in June, 1827. He has since been on half-pay.

He married, 16 July, 1846, Mary, eldest daughter of the late Dansey Dansey, Esq., of Brincep Court, Herefordshire.

 LIPSON. 

entered the Navy, in 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Sir Thos. Byard, with whom he served in that ship at the reduction of Corsica; in the 74 in the action off  11 Oct. 1797, and in the  80 at the capture, in Oct. 1798, of a French squadron under M. Bompart, destined for the invasion of Ireland. He continued in the last-mentioned ship under the flags of Lord Keith and Nelson until 1799 – latterly on the Mediterranean station; where, and in the North Sea, he was during the rest of the war employed, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 38,  64, and  50, Capts. Sir Edw. Berry and Thos. Masterman Hardy. In 1803, after his name had been borne for short periods on the books of the 98, Capt. Fras. Wm. Austen, 32, Capt. T. M. Hardy, and  38, Capt. Geo. Mundy, he joined the 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway. During his continuance in that ship he assisted at the blockade of the enemy’s ports from Brest to the Dardanells; and was present, 22 Aug. 1805, in Adm. Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ attack on the French fleet close in with Brest Harbour, on which occasion the exchanged broadsides with L’Alexandre of 80 guns. On 24 Jan. 1808 Mr. Lipson was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Edw. Kittoe, then off Cadiz. He was officially promoted 29 June, 1809, and was subsequently appointed – 29 Jan. 1810, as Senior, to the corvette, Capt. Pitt Burnaby Greene, in South America – 1 March, and 21 Sept. 1812, to the  24, and  98, Capts. Hon. Wm. Gordon and Sir Edw. Berry, on the Brazilian and Mediterranean stations – in 1814-15, as First, to the 36, Capt. Andrew King,  80,  100, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, employed on the coast of North America and at home and, 20 Nov. 1816 (after several months of half-pay), to the command of the Revenue-cutter, which vessel, in Jan. 1817, was driven from her anchorage in Mill Bay, Plymouth, and went ashore high and dry, over a ridge of rocks, with comparatively little injury. He attained his present rank 4 March, 1819; and has not been since afloat.

Commander Lipson is now Harbour-Master at Adelaide, South Australia. He married, 30 July, 1812, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Took, Esq., of Weymouth. – Joseph Woodhead.

 LITCHFIELD. 

was born 7 Oct. 1786, at Great Torrington, co. Devon.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 May, 1800, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, under whom he assisted in blowing up L’Insolente in the Morbihan river, and accompanied the expeditions to Quiberon, Ferrol, and Vigo. While at the latter place, we find him, on the night of 29 Aug. 1800, aiding in the boats of a squadron, 20 in number, commanded by Lieut. Henry Burke, at the cutting-out, close in with the enemy’s batteries, of La Guepe privateer, of 18 guns and 161 men, which vessel, 25 of whose people were killed and 40 wounded, was in 15 minutes boarded and carried, with a loss to the British of 3 seamen and 1 marine killed, 3 Lieutenants, 12 seamen, and 5 marines wounded, and 1 seaman missing. In the course of 1802 Mr. Litchfield successively joined the 74, Capt. Thos. Sotheby, and 36, Capts. Wm. Cumberland and Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross; under the latter of whom he was employed, in 1803-4, at the blockade of Aux Cayes and Cape François, St. Domingo, and on shore in the unsuccessful attack on Curaçoa. On the occasion of General Rochambeau’s evacuation of Cape Francois, he served, it appears, in a boat, and assisted the present Sir Nesbit Josiah Willoughby in rescuing the French 40-gun frigate La Clorinde, and 900 souls who were on board, from the destruction with which they were threatened by the blacks under General Dessalines, at the time in possession of Fort St. Josef, on the rocks immediately beneath which La Clorinde had grounded. On leaving the in Dec. 1804, Mr. Litchfield joined, of 18 guns and 121 men, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan; as Acting-Master of which vessel he contributed, 20 March, 1805, to the annihilation, after a brisk action of 35 minutes, of Le Général Ernouf French privateer of 20 guns and 160 men; as also, in May, 1806, to the capture, at the end of a chase of three days and nights, of La Diligente national brig, of 16 guns and 125 men. On 12 Oct. 1806 Mr. Litchfield was nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Cadogan; and on 24 March, 1807, he became Acting First-Lieutenant of the 18, Capts. John Fyffe and Peter John Douglas.