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672 . Following Capt. Adam, on his return to England in 1803, into his prize, which had been added to the British Navy as a 36-gun frigate, Mr. Long proceeded on a cruize to the North Sea, where he next, it appears, joined the 74, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, and  74, Capts. John Clarke Searle and Robt. Jackson. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 7 Nov. 1806; and was subsequently appointed – 26 Dec. 1806, to the sloop, Capts. John Davis and Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, in which vessel he witnessed the evacuation of Monte Video in 1807, and the capture of St. Paul’s, Ile de Bourbon, in Sept. 1809 – 21 Nov. in the latter year, to the sloop, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon, with whom he returned to England – 18 Dec. 1810, and 25 June, 1811, to the 14, and  18, Capts. Christopher Bell and Jas. Tomkinson, stationed in the Downs and North Sea, where he cruized until superseded in April, 1813 – 8 March, 1837, to the command of the Semaphore on Portsdown Hill – and 25 Oct. 1841, to a Rendezvous for seamen in the Isle of Man, which closed a month afterwards. He accepted his present rank 11 Feb. 1842.

Commander Long married, 27 Oct. 1827, Jacobina, youngest daughter of Jas. Young, Esq., of Lanark, N.B., by whom he has issue five children.

 LONGCHAMP. 

entered the Navy, 18 July, 1797, as Midshipman, on board sloop, Capt. Henry Inman; continuing to serve with whom in the  64,  32, and  36, he witnessed, in the, an attack made on a French squadron in Dunkerque Roads 7 July, 1800, and was present, we believe, in the  in the action off Copenhagen 2 April, 1801. In the course of the latter and the following year he successively removed to the 74 and  38, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Hope, 40, Capt. Jas. Athol Wood, and 98, Capts. Jas. Vashon, Herbert Sawyer, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds. He made a voyage, in the, to the Mediterranean; and served on the Channel station, in the , until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Dec. 1806. He then joined the bomb, Capt. John Sanderson Gibson, attached to the force in the Baltic, where he was taken prisoner in Oct. 1807; and he was subsequently appointed – 3 Jan. 1809 (three months after he had been exchanged), to the  10, Capt. Thos. Fortescue Kennedy, lying in the Downs – 29 May following, to the 74, guard-ship at Spithead, Capts. Irwin, Hall, and Patterson – 2 Nov. 1811, as Senior, to the 10, Capts. Fred. Burgoyne and Augustus Baldwin, employed in the Channel – 18 Nov. 1814, to the 98, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the Irish station – 25 Aug. 1815, to the 36, Capt. Andrew King, with whom he cruized for exactly three months in the North Sea – in July and Oct. 1816, to the command of the  and  Revenue-vessels – and 27 March, 1819, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued to discharge the duties of Inspecting Commander until the early part of 1832. He has since been on half-pay. The commission he at present holds bears date 26 Dec. 1822. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 LORD. 

passed his examination in 1829; obtained his commission 11 Aug. 1835; and has since been on half-pay.

The Lieutenant, who has been for a considerable period Inspector of the River Mersey, married, 22 Nov. 1840, Fairlina Euphemia, only daughter of Lieut. T. Anderson, of Stromness.

 LORING. 

, born in Aug. 1808, at Fareham, co. Hants, is second and only surviving son of Capt. John Loring, R.N., who commanded the 74 at the blockade of St. Domingo in 1803, and died 9 Nov. 1808; and first-cousin of the present His elder brother, John, a passed Midshipman in the R.N., died of yellow fever at Bermuda on board the  frigate, about 1820.

This officer entered the Navy, 8 Aug. 1821, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. John Baker Hay, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed. Proceeding towards the close of the same year to the East Indies in the 50, Commodore Chas. Grant, he was afforded an opportunity, during the Burmese war, of witnessing the capture of Rangoon, and of participating, as Midshipman, in much boat-service on the river Irawady. On his return to England in Jan. 1326 he joined the 104, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Martin at Portsmouth, where he remained until the following Dec.; in the course of which month he was received on board the 28, Capts. Hayes, Joseph Harrison, and Adolphus FitzClarence. After a further servitude on the Home station in the latter ship and in the 76, Capt. Henry Stuart, Mr. Loring (whose examination was passed in Sept. 1827) again, in 1829, sailed for the East Indies, as Mate of the  50, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, who appointed him Acting-Lieutenant, in 1831-2, of his own ship, and of the 18, Capt. Marcus Theodore Hare,  18, Capt. John Parker, and  26, Capt. David Dunn. He continued to officiate in the capacity last mentioned for upwards of four years; and on 23 June, 1835, was at length confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant, a few weeks only before the was paid off. His next appointments were – 4 Oct. 1835, to the bomb, Capt. Alex. Thos. Emeric Vidal, fitting for the coast of Africa – 13 Nov. 1835,as Additional, to the 52, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn in North America and the West Indies – 25 Jan. 1836, to the 20, Capt. John Frazer, of which vessel, employed on the same station, he soon became First-Lieutenant – 1 Feb. 1840, to the  84, Capts. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley and Daniel Pring, under the former of whom he discharged the duties of Second-Lieutenant in the operations on the coast of Syria, including the storming of Sidon and bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – and 1 Feb. and 19 July, 1844, and 30 Jan. 1845, as First-Lieutenant (a post he had for a long time held in the ), to the 104,  110, and  120, flag-ships of Sir John Chambers White at the Nore. He attained his present rank 25 July, 1845, and since 30 April, 1847, has been serving as Second-Captain of the 120, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling.

Commander Loring married, in May, 1841, Charlotte Jessy, daughter of the late Jas. Jameson, Esq., of the Bengal Medical Service, by whom he has issue. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 LORING, K.C.B., K.C.H.

, born 13 Oct. 1775, in America, is son of the late Joshua Loring, Esq., permanent High Sheriff of the province of Massachusetts previously to the Transatlantic War of Independence; grandson of Commodore Loring, who commanded on the Lakes of Canada, also prior to the struggle with America; and first-cousin of the present One of his brothers, Henry Lloyd, died Archdeacon of Calcutta in 1822; another, William, a Captain in the Horse Artillery, served under Sir John Moore during his celebrated retreat, from the fatigues of which he never recovered, dying at Madeira in 1809; and a third, a Major in the Army, was 