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Rh MACFARLANE. 

died 14 Feb. 1846. This officer entered the Navy, 9 March, 1805, as A.B., on board the, Capt. Cooke, flag-ship at Plymouth of Admiral Young; and, between the following July and Feb. 1806, was employed in the Channel as Master’s Mate of the 74, Capt. Geo. Hopewell Stephens. He joined, next, the sloop, Capts. Wm. Standway Parkinson, Buckland Stirling Bluett, and Wm. Fisher, with whom he cruized for some time on the West India and Home stations. In 1807 he returned to the West Indies in the 74, Capt. Matthew Henry Scott; and he afterwards, from 1803 until the autumn of 1815, served on the Home, North American, and Mediterranean stations, latterly in the capacity of Master, in the  74, Capt. John Lawford (part of the Walcheren expeditionary force),  74, Capt. M. H. Scott,  of similar force, bearing the flag of the last-named officer, and  and  74’s, Capts. Jas. Anderson and Sir Jas. Athol Wood. He then took up a commission dated 21 Feb. 1815. His last appointment was, 6 April, 1844, to the post, which he retained until the autumn of 1845, of Agent in a contract mail steam-vessel. – Coplands and Burnett.

 M‘GLADERY. 

was born in Dec. 1776, near Dungannon, co. Tyrone.

This officer (who had been seven or eight years in the Merchant service) was impressed, 28 Nov. 1794, into the Navy, from the wreck of the ship Wildman, of London, and rated A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Thos. Troubridge; under whom, it appears, he was successively present in Hotham’s action 13 July, 1795, in the battle off Cape St. Vincent 14 Feb. 1797, at the ensuing attack upon Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, in the action off the Nile 1 Aug. 1798, and at the capture of Naples, Rome, Genoa, &c. He received a splinter-wound in the right eye in Hotham’s affair; experienced a similar injury in the St. Vincent achievement; and, being one of the landed party at Santa Cruz, was so severely hurt by a sabre-cut in the head as to be reported among the slain. Removing in Aug. 1800 to 12, Capt. John Richards, he took part, in the capacity we believe of Quartermaster, in most of the operations connected with the campaign of 1801 in Egypt, from the landing of the troops in Aboukir Bay until the fall of Alexandria, including the reduction of Marabout Castle and a variety of boat skirmishes. In March, 1803, Mr. M‘Gladery, who had previously attained the rating of Midshipman, was transferred to the 80, in which ship, bearing the flags of Admirals Sir Thos. Graves, Sir John Borlase Warren, Albemarle Bertie, and Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, he served for upwards of five years, on thg Home, North American, Lisbon (whence he witnessed the flight of the Royal Family of Portugal), and Brazilian stations, he was present, 13 March, 1806, at the capture of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. In Sept. 1803, on his arrival at the Cape of Good Hope in the cutter, Lieut.-Commander Augustus Vere Drury, he was nominated, having passed his examination 5 Oct. 1805, Acting-Lieutenant of the  50, flag-ship of the above-named Admiral Bertie. Exchanging, in May, 1810, into the sloop, Capt. Jas. Tomkinson, he witnessed, in the following Sept., the re-capture of H. M. S., and the capture of the French frigate La Vénus and her prize the 32; and on rejoining Admiral Bertie, shortly afterwards, in the , he co-operated in the reduction of the Isle of France and its dependencies, being on the occasion allowed to superintend the debarkation of the troops. Having unluckily mislaid his passing certificate, he was not confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant until 24 April, 1811; from which period he remained unemployed until the receipt of his present appointment in the Coast Guard 1 Nov. 1821. – Hallett and Robinson.

 M‘GOWAN. 

entered the Navy 11 Nov. 1809; passed his examination in 1815; and obtained his commission 28 April, 1827. We are not aware that he has been since employed.

 M‘GREGOR. 

entered the Navy 19 Nov. 1830; and was Midshipman of the 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, when that vessel, in company with the  28, forced the passage of the Boca Tigris, in China, 7 and 9 Sept. 1834. He obtained a commission 14 Aug. 1838; and was afterwards appointed – 29 June, 1839, to the steamer, Capt. Anthony Wm. Milward, in the Mediterranean – 21 Oct. 1839, to the 80, Capt. Chas. John Austen, under whom he took part in the different operations on the coast of Syria, terminating with the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – 17 Sept. 1841, 21 Feb. and 26 March, 1842, and 5 April, 1843, to the 26, Capt. Sir Jas. Everard Home, 50, Capt. John Toup Nicolas,  72, flagship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, and troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome, all on the East India station – 23 May, 1844, as Senior Lieutenant, to the  steam-sloop, Capt. John Hay, on the coast of Africa – 24 Aug. 1844, to the  store-ship at the Ascension, Capt. Arthur Morrell – and, 2 Dec. 1844, again as Senior, to the  steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, also on the African station. He has been on half-pay since the commencement of Jan. 1846. – Messrs. Chard.

 M‘GRIGOR. 

passed his examination 16 July, 1840; served as Mate, on the East India,- Home, and Pacific stations, in the 26, Capt. Chas. Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne,  steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, and 50., Capt. Hon. John Gordon; obtained his commission 4 May, 1846; was then appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the  80, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour in the Pacific; and since 30 Jan. 1847 has been employed on the coast of Africa in the sloop, Capt. Chas. Mitchell Mathison.

 M‘GWIRE. 

, born 10 June, 1766, is third son of the late Arthur M‘Gwire, Esq., of Dawson Street, Dublin, and Clonrea Castle, co. Waterford.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 April, 1779, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, Capts. John Carter Allen and Robt. Fanshawe, under whom he served as Midshipman until the close of 1781, witnessing during that period a hurricane that spread desolation over the whole of the Caribbean Islands and Jamaica, and totally dismantled the. In 1782 he joined the frigate, Capt. John Brown, attached to the force on the Home station; and he was next, between 1783 and 1786, employed on the African and American coasts, and also in the North Sea, on board the  sloop, Capt. Thos. Wilson. In Jan. 1792, after he had been for nearly three years on the Jamaica station in the 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Philip Affleck, he was there nominated to the command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the  cutter. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 18 March, 1793, in the sloop, Capt. Wm. Charlton; and on 18 of the following July he was transferred, from the 32, Capt. Jolm M‘Dougall, in which ship he had been again serving in the North Sea, to the 