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Rh LOUIS. 

, born 21 May, 1810, is son of

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 1 May, 1823, and embarked, 7 Dec. 1824, as a Volunteer, on board the 46, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, previously to accompanying whom into the 76 he took part in some of the operations connected with the Burmese war. On his return to England in 1827 he became for a short period Midshipman of the 104, guard-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot; after which, and until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 30 May, 1829, we find him employed on the African, Home, and West India stations, in the 18, Capt. Thos. Saville Griffinhoofe, 42, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, 46, Capt. Benj. Clement, and 50, commanded by his father as Flag-Captain to Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming. He continued to serve in the West Indies, until the close of 1832, in the 28, Capt. Wm. Walpole, again. 18, Capts. Chas. Deare and John Elphinstone Erskine, 52, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, and 18, Capt. Wm. Oldrey; and he was next appointed – 5 July, 1833, to the 78, Capts. Donald Hugh Mackay and Wm. Elliott, stationed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean – and, 6 Jan. 1838 (after six months of half-pay), to the command of the receiving-ship, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father at Malta. He was presented with a second promotal commission 28 June, 1838; appointed, 11 June, 1841, to the command (which he retained until June, 1843) of the steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean; and advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.

Capt. Louis married, 11 July, 1843, Mary, daughter of J. Daniel, Esq., of Parson’s Green, co. Middlesex. – Joseph Woodhead.

 LOVE. 

, born 1 March, 1793, is eldest son of the late Commander Wm. Love, R.N., by Harriet, youngest daughter of Gabriel Acworth, Esq., Purveyor of the Navy, nephew of Sir Jacob Acworth, Surveyor of the Navy from March, 1715, until the period of his death in March, 1749. His grandfather, Mr. Thos. Lovell, also in the R.N., married a sister of Lovell Pennell, Esq., whose grand-daughter became the wife of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P., late Secretary to the Admiralty. One of Capt. Love’s uncles, Thomas, was Master’s Mate of the 74 in Keppel’s action with D’Orvilliers, and Master of the  74 on the glorious 1 June, 1794.

This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 21 May, 1805, and embarked, 23 Dec. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Jas. Bissett, part of the force employed in the expedition to the Walcheren. He removed, in Sept. 1809, to the sloop, commanded by his father off Lymington, where he remained until June, 1810. After serving for 18 months on the North American and Leith stations in the 32, Capts. Jas. Coutts Crawford and Kenneth Mackenzie, he rejoined the, but had not been long in that vessel before he was transferred to the 98, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, who, as a reward for his conduct in having jumped overboard under very perilous circumstances and saved the life of a young Midshipman, and “as an encouragement to enterprise and humanity,” successively nominated him Acting-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Halliday,  and , his own flag-ships, and  sloop, Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch. He was not, however, confirmed until the Allied Sovereigns visited the fleet at Spithead, when, being the Senior passed Midshipman present (he had undergone his examination in 1812), he received a commission dated 27 June, 1814. His succeeding appointments were – 11 April, 1821, to the 42, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, where, previously to proceeding to the West Indies, he assisted in saving from destruction the Albion, an Indiaman of immense value, which had broken from her moorings during a gale, and had drifted to within a few feet of the rocks – 13 May, 1824, to the 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, on the Jamaica station – and, towards the close of the same year, to the command of the and  schooners, also in the West Indies, whence he invalided in the summer of 1825. He obtained a second promotal commission 10 July, 1826; and was lastly, from 2 July, 1831, until paid off 12 March, 1834, employed in command, again on the West India station, of the 18. During the whole of that period Capt. Love did not lose a single man through sickness. When at Barbadoes, in Jan. 1833, he had succeeded in getting a ship off shore after 48 hours of incessant labour – an achievement which every experienced person in the island had considered impracticable. On the being put out of commission, the officers gave their Commander a parting dinner, as “a token of their respect and esteem.” He was advanced to Post-rank 5 Dec. 1837.

Capt. Love lays claim to having suggested the use of paddles, instead of wheels, for steam-vessels. He is at present Sub-Commissioner of Pilotage for the Port of Southampton and Superintendent of Lights, Buoys, and Beacons for the Isle of Wight district, between Portland and Beachy Head, under the Trinity Corporation. The Captain has been three times Mayor of Yarmouth. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 LOVELESS. 

was born, 19 Feb. 1785, at Swansea, Glamorganshire.

This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1801, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Shuldham Peard, and on 6 and 12 July following was present in the actions fought under Sir Jas. Saumarez off Algeciras and in the Gut of Gibraltar. The being paid off on her return from the West Indies in Sept. 1802, Mr. Loveless next, in March, 1803, joined the  16, Capts. Edw. Bass and Jas. Robt. Phillips, after cruizing for three years and four months in which vessel on the Channel station, he removed with Capt. Phillips, in July, 1806, to the 18, and proceeded to the Baltic, where, during the operations of 1807 against Copenhagen, he came into frequent contact, as Master’s Mate, with the enemy’s block-ships. On leaving the, which had been latterly commanded by Capt. Jas. Pringle, Mr. Loveless became in succession attached to the 18, Capt. Matthew Smith,  32, Capt. Edm. Heywood, and 74 and  98, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. Being wrecked in the (at the time under the command of Lieut. Edm. Potenger Greenlaw) on a coral reef off Anegada 24 May, 1808, he was reduced to the necessity of remaining for three months on that barren and swampy island, where he endured many privations from the want of clothing and wholesome food. While acting as Lieutenant, from Jan. 1809 to Oct. 1810, of the 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Alfred Crofton, we find him assisting at the reduction of Martinique and Guadeloupe; and on one occasion (with but two small boats under his orders, carrying each 5 men) effecting the capture, off Basseterre, of an armed row-boat, manned with 21 men, together