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670  in so serviceable a state as to afford the most essential aid to the operations connected with the expedition against New Orleans. On at first closing with the enemy, Capt. Lockyer made for the Commodore’s vessel, in boarding which it was his lot to be dangerously wounded. So stern was the general resistance offered by the Americans, that, before they were finally subdued, their own loss amounted to not less than 6 killed and 35 wounded, nor that of the British to less than 17 killed and 77 wounded. The prizes being collectively placed upon the establishment of a 36-gun frigate, the command of them was at once given to Capt. Lockyer by Sir Alex. Cochrane, who in his public despatch declared him justly entitled to the protection of the Admiralty. On 29 March, 1815, he was in consequence confirmed in Post-rank. His subsequent appointments, it appears, were – 26 June, 1816, to a command on Lake Ontario, which he retained until 18 June, 1817 – 17 Dec. 1824, to the 50,armée en flûte variously employed, until paid off 12 Oct. 1827, in passages to Quebec, the, the Mediterranean, and Sierra Leone – 12 Oct. 1832, to the  46, stationed off the coast of Portugal, whence he returned in Dec. 1835 – and 10 Nov. 1843, to the  90. In that ship, in which he continued until the period of his death, Capt. Lockyer served at first as Flag-Captain to Sir David Milne at Devonport, then on the Lisbon station, and finally with the Channel squadron.

He had been nominated a C.B. 4 June, 1815; and awarded, about the same period, a gratuity for his wounds of 301l. 2s. 6d. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 LOCKYER. 

entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 2 Nov. 1838; and after having been for some time attached, as Mate, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, was employed in that capacity in the 24, Capt. Lord Clarence Edw. Paget, on the Mediterranean station, from the close of 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 1 Sept. 1845. His appointments have since been – on 15 of the latter month, as Additional, to the steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant on the coast of Africa of Commodore Wm. Jones – 26 Doc. 1845, to the 90, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, part of the Channel squadron – and 6 May, 1847, again to the, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, under whom he is at present serving.

 LODDER. 

served as Midshipman of the 84, Commodore Chas. Napier, during all the operations on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He passed his examination 7 July, 1842; was employed in the Mediterranean, as Mate, from the close of that year until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 26 June, 1846, of the 18, Capt. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and steam-sloop, Capts. Geo. Graham Otway and John Lunn; and since 22 Oct. in the latter year has been serving in the steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Honyman Henderson, now on the coast of Portugal.

 LODWICK. 

died in the summer of 1845. This officer passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 19 Jan. 1837; and was appointed – 20 Jan. 1837, to the steam-vessel, Capts. Wm. Honyman Henderson and Anthony Wm. Milward, with whom he was employed on particular service until paid off at the close of 1838 – 22 May, 1839, as Senior Lieutenant, to the steamer, Capt. Joseph Sherer, attached to the force in North America and the West Indies – 7 March, 1841, to the  50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey on the same station – and, 19 March, 1842, again as First, to the steam-sloop, Capt. Claude Henry Mason Buckle, on the coast of Africa, where he remained until promoted to the rank of Commander 1 May, 1845.

 LOFTUS. 

is second son of the Rev. Arthur Loftus, by Ellen, daughter of Sir Duke Gifford, Bart., of Castle Jordan, co. Meath; and brother of the late Major Henry Duke Loftus, and the late Capt. Wm. Loftus, both in the Army. One of his uncles, Thos. Loftus, was a M.P. and a Captain in the 1st Horse Guards; and another, Wm. Loftus, of Kilbride, co. Wicklow, many years a Member of the Irish and English Parliaments, was a General Officer in the Army, Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, and Lieutenant of the Tower of London. Lieut. Loftus – a first-cousin of the present Major-General Loftus of Kilbride – is a direct descendant of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Chancellor of Ireland, who had (with seven daughters, all married to Knights) a family of five sons; three of whom received the honour of Knighthood. One of the Prelate’s two other sons, Adam, a Captain in the Army, was killed in action with the O’Byrnes of co. Wicklow 29 May, 1599.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the 38, Capt. Sir Robt. Laurie; and from 5 of the following April until 5 Oct. 1810 was employed, chiefly as Midshipman, in the 32, Capts. Geo. M‘Kinley, Lord Viscount Falkland, Hon. Geo. Poulett, and Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne. He assisted during that period at the cutting-out (he had not at the time been a fortnight in the service) of several vessels on the coast of Holland – made two voyages to the shores of Greenland – witnessed the surrender, in Sept. 1807, of the island of Heligoland – was twice nearly wrecked, on the coasts of Norway and Denmark (on the first occasion during a tremendous gale which lasted three days) – joined (after having been blocked up for a whole winter in the ice at Gottenborg) in the Quebec’s gallant pursuit of the Danish 74 Prindts Christian Frederic, a pursuit that led to the capture of that ship, 22 March, 1808, by the and  64’s – accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Scheldt, where he obtained the thanks of Sir Rich. Strachan for his conduct in command of a launch, armed with a 12-pounder carronade, in an attack on the island of South Beveland – served at the blockade of an enemy’s force in Cherbourg – and co-operated in the defence of Cadiz. Becoming attached, in Feb. 1811, to the 74, bearing the flag of Hon. Robt. Stopford, Mr. Loftus contributed, in the course of the same year, to the conquest of the island of Java. In April, 1812, having returned to England, he passed his examination; but he was not promoted to the rank of Lieutenant until 14 June, 1813; prior to which period he had been further employed in the, under Capt. Henry Heathcote, on the Mediterranean station. After he had been lent for brief periods to the 98 and  74, Mr. Loftus received an appointment, 7 Oct. 1813, to the  100, Capt. Thos. Francis Chas. Mainwaring; under whom, it appears, he beheld Sir Edw. Pellew’s two partial actions with the Toulon fleet, and saw some boat-service. Since the paying- off of the, in Aug. 1814, he has not been afloat.

Lieut. Loftus, now a widower, married Anne Abigail, only child and heiress of John Grey, Esq., a lady belonging to a junior branch of the family of Lord Grey de Groby, by whom he has issue a son and daughter. The former is a Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars.

 LONEY. 

, born 8 Dec. 1783, is son of the late Mr. J. Loney, a warrant-officer in the Royal Navy, who served his country with credit for nearly 50 years.

