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Rh Thompson, principally employed off Toulon – 21 May, 1813, after six months of half-pay, to the sloop, Capt. John Davis, which vessel, attached to the force on the Plymouth station, his health obliged him to leave in the ensuing Aug. – and, 29 Jan. 1814, to the  110, bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Harry Burrard Neale. He attained the rank of Commander 27 June in the latter year; and from 26 Aug. 1828 until posted, 22 July, 1830, was employed in that capacity at the Cape of Good Hope on board the 18. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Lyons, we believe, has been for some time employed by the Government in Egypt. – Joseph Woodhead.

 LYONS. 

entered the Navy 20 March, 1810; passed his examination in 1820; obtained his commission 20 July, 1825; was appointed, 31 Oct. following, to the sloop, Capt. Wm. Geo. Hyndham Whish; and since 18 March, 1834, has been employed in the Coast Guard.

 LYS. 

entered the Royal Naval College 20 Oct. 1810; and embarked, 24 June, 1812, as A.B. on board the 36, Capt. Peter Heywood. With that officer he continued to serve in the 74, on the South American and Home stations until Nov. 1814; assisting as Midshipman, during the latter year, in the conveyance of the British army from Bordeaux to England, and particularly in the grand naval review held at Spithead. He then sailed for the East Indies in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Burlton; and on his return to England in 1816 in the 36, Capt. Sam. Leslie, joined the 74, Capt. Wm. Paterson. After assisting at the bombardment of Algiers he again proceeded to India, where, in March, 1817, he was nominated by Sir Rich. King Acting-Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Henry Chas. Pemberton. He was confirmed by the Admiralty on his arrival home, 20 Jan. 1818, and was subsequently appointed – 29 Dec. 1820, to the 20, Capt. Robt. Hockings, on the Mediterranean station – 22 March, 1821, to the frigate, Capts. Thos. Graham and Fred. Edw. Venables, fitting for the Brazils, whence he invalided – and 2 Dec. 1823, to the 80, Capts. Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman and John Sykes, flag-ship for some time of Lord Amelius Beauclerk in the river Tagus. He was paid off we believe in 1827, and has not been since afloat.

 LYSAGHT. 

belongs to the family of Lord Lisle.

This officer entered the Navy, 30 June, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board of 48 guns, Capts. Edw. Cooke and Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman, stationed at first in the Channel and afterwards in the East Indies; where, in Jan. 1798, he was Midshipman of that vessel when, in company with the 32, she entered the Spanish harbour of Manilla (notwithstanding that there were lying there three ships of the line and three frigates), and captured seven boats, 200 men, and a large quantity of ammunition and implements of war. In the course of the same month he was present in an action with the enemy’s batteries at Samboangon in the island of Magindanao, whose fire occasioned the two ships a collective loss of 6 killed and 16 wounded; and on the night of 28 Feb. 1799 he contributed to the capture, at the mouth of the Bengal River, of the French frigate La Forte of 52 guns and 370 men, after a deadly action of two hours and a half, in which the enemy had 65 of their number (including the Captain) killed and 80 wounded, and the British, out of 371 men, 5 killed and 17 (among whom was Capt. Cooke mortally) wounded. On the prize being added to the British Navy and placed under the orders of Capt. Hardyman, Mr. Lysaght joined her, in May, 1799, in the capacity of Master’s Mate. He continued in her until she was wrecked, in the Red Sea, about June 1801; and then removed to the 32, Capt. Henry Stuart, whom, in the following Oct. he accompanied, as Acting-Lieutenant, into  36. Invaliding home in March, 1802, Mr. Lysaght, whose official promotion took place 3 Aug. in that year, was next, 23 March, 1803, and 5 July, 1805, appointed to the 38, and  74, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver and Robt. Hall, on the Channel and West India stations. He obtained a second promotal commission 22 Jan. 1806; assumed command, 8 Feb. following of the sloop, also in the East Indies; acquired Post-rank 25 Sept. in the same year; and was lastly, from 20 May, 1807, until 19 Nov. 1810, employed as Captain of the  24, on the Channel, Lisbon, and Newfoundland stations. He was advanced to Flagrank 23 Nov. 1841.

The Rear-Admiral married, first, in 1813, Caroline, daughter of Thos. Cuming, Esq., of Camden Place, Bath; and, that lady dying in 1825, secondly, 22 Aug. 1831, Eliza Dorothy, eldest daughter of the late Henry Percy Pulleine, Esq., of Crake Hall, co. York, by whom he has issue three sons.

 LYSAGHT. 

entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 11 Feb. 1830; passed his examination in 1835; and, participating, while Mate of the 26, Capt. Jas. Scott, in the operations on the coast of China, was in particular mentioned for his gallantry and zeal at the forcing of the inner passage from Macao to Whampoa; during their advance on which place the boats of that ship, in conjunction with the steamer, destroyed, between 3 a.m. on 13 and 4 p.m. on 15 March, 1841, five forts, one battery, two military stations, and nine war-junks, in which collectively were 115 guns and 8 ginjalls. He obtained a commission 8 June following; served, from 23 Aug. in the same year until superseded in 1844, in the 26, Capt. Hon. Chas. Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, on the North America and West India station; and since 10 Nov, 1846 has been in command of the steamer, of 220 horse-power, on the coast of Africa.

 LYSTER. 

entered the Navy, 28 Nov. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. Clement Milward, with whom he continued to serve as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the 16, and  20, on the West India and North American stations until Oct. 1815. He was then for two years and a half employed on the coast of Africa in the and  frigates, bearing each the broad pendant of Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo. On his arrival home in the autumn of 1818 he became for a few weeks attached to the Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch; after which he sailed for South America, and was there retained on service in the 20, Capts. Donat Henchy O’Brien and Henry Stanhope, until transferred, in June, 1822, to the 60, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphal, [fitting for the conveyance of Lord Amherst to Bengal. After having acted for six months as Lieutenant, he was confirmed in that rank, on the return of the to England, 20 Jan. 1824; and he was next appointed – towards the close of the same year, to the  sloop, Capt. Wm. Hobson, on the Jamaica station, whence he invalided in March 1826 – 4 July, 1831, as Senior to the, Capt. Price Blackwood, in which vessel, on proceeding to China, he assisted in forcing the passage of the Boca Tigris 9 Sept. 1834 – 18 March, 1836, to the 74, Capt. Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing, fitting at Plymouth – 12 July 1836, as First, to the 104, flag-ship at that port of Lord Amelius Beauclerk, under