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Rh the 74, he received, in the battle of Trafalgar, a wound so severe that he still feels its effects. A gratuity from the Patriotic Fund was his consequent reward. He removed, in Dec. 1805, to the 20, Capt. John Tower, but had not been many months in that vessel before he was promoted, 7 July, 1806, to the rank of Lieutenant, and re-appointed to the, commanded at first by Capt. Morris, and subsequently by Capt. Thos. Alexander. In Nov. 1808 we find him serving on shore under the present Earl of Dundonald, at the celebrated defence of the fortress of Rosas, on the north-eastern extremity of Spain. He commanded a gun-boat also during the siege of Cadiz by the French; and on 1 Dec. 1811 he assisted at the capture and destruction of part of an enemy’s convoy, protected by several armed vessels, near Rochelle. His health at length obliging him to leave the in Sept. 1813, after he had been altogether for nearly nine years attached to her, he was next appointed – 31 Jan. and 31 Oct. 1814, to the  100, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, Chas. Thurlow Smith, and Robt. Lambert, and sloop, Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson, in which vessels he served in the Mediterranean and North Sea until 18 Sept. 1815 – and, 26 Nov. 1822, as Senior, to the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the West Indies. He was there promoted to the command, 1 July, 1823, of the 10. He removed, in the following Oct., to the 18, and after cruizing with activity in the suppression of piracy, returned home and was paid off in July, 1825. He has not been since employed.

From 1 Oct. 1841 until 1 Dec. 1843, Commander Maclean was Superintendent of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in the West Indies. He married in Sept. 1829, and has issue one son and a daughter. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 MACLEAN. 

is ninth son of Colonel Alex. Maclean, of Ardgour, by the Lady Margaret Hope, daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun, and grand-daughter of Alexander, fifth Earl of Leven and Melville. One of his brothers, Archibald, a Captain in the R.N. (1822), died in 1832.

This officer entered the Navy, early in 1823, as a Volunteer, on board the 46, Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell, and sailed for South America, where, at home, and in India, he continued to serve as Midshipman in the same frigate, and in the  120, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, 46, Capt. Arthur Batt Bingham,  28, Capt. Lord Henry Fred. Thynne, and Prince Regent again and 52, flag-ships of Sir Henry Blackwood and Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, until promoted, 10 Feb. 1830, to a Lieutenancy in the 28, Capt. Wm. Clarke Jervoise, also on the East India station, whence he came home in Oct. 1831 in the 84, Capt. Peter Fisher. His succeeding appointments were – 7 Nov. 1833, to the 46, Capt. Fras. Mason, fltting for South America – 5 April, 1836 (soon after his return to England), to the 120, flag-ship of Sir Philip Chas. Durham at Portsmouth, where he remained a period of three years – and, 27 Aug. 1841, to the 120, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Fras. Mason in the Mediterranean. He attained the rank of Commander 23 Nov. following; served in that capacity, from 28 Sept. 1843 until Feb. 1845, on board the troop-ship; obtained command, 22 Dec. in the latter year, of the  16, on the East India station; and acquired his present rank 9 Nov. 1846. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Maclean married, 30 Aug. 1838, Elizabeth, only daughter Of the late T. Melet Charter, Esq., of Lynchfield House, co. Somerset, and grand-daughter of the late Mrs. Freke Gunston, of Frethey Cottage, near Taunton, by whom he has issue. – Hallett and Robinson.

 M‘LEOD. 

(a) entered the Navy, 11 Nov. 1777, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, Capts. Hon. John Leveson Gower and Sam. Cranston Goodall. attached to the Channel fleet. Between Sept. 1779 and May, 1783, he served under various officers, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman, in the, , , and , on the West India and Home stations; where, and in the Mediterranean, he was further, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Nov. 1790, employed on board the , Capt. Robt. Montagu, 74, Capt. Adam Duncan,  sloop, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine, 74, Capt. Rich. Onslow, and 98, flagship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Hotham. During the French revolutionary war we find him in succession appointed to the, Capts. Hon. Wm. Carnegie and John Salisbury,, Capt. Robt. Faulknor,, Capt. Rich. Morris,, Capt. Cuthbert Collingwood, , Capt. Thos. Lewis, armed transport. , Capt. John Dawson, Cynthia, Capt. Micajah Malbon, and, Capts. Adam Drummond and Geo. Mundy. The formed part of the expeditions to Holland and Vigo in 1799 and 1800; the other ships appear to have been chiefly employed in the West Indies; where, at the commencement of 1794, Mr. M‘Leod, we believe, assisted at the reduction of the French islands. After having had command for upwards of three years of the and, on the Home station, and been deprived of part of his right hand, he was admitted an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital 22 Sept. 1806. He accepted the rank he now holds 4 Oct. 1824. – J. Hinxman.

 M‘LEOD. 

(c) died 8 March, 1846. This officer entered the Navy, 27 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capts. Thos. Young and Wm. Hellard, on the Leith station; and in Oct. 1811, while holding the rating of Master’s Mate, was driven in a prize into Norway during a gale of wind, and there taken prisoner. On being restored to liberty in 1812, he again (after he had been for a short time borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the 64 and  50, Capts. Wm. Autridge and Matthew Buckle) joined the ; in which vessel he continued to serve, under the orders of Capts. Hellard and Joseph Gape, on the West India, Cork, and Channel stations, until Oct. 1815. He subsequently became attached – 15 Dec. 1815, to the 46, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, on the St. Helena station – 20 March, 1818, as Admiralty-Midshipman, to the 74, commanded in the Channel by Capt. Thos. Alexander – and 3 Oct. following, and 26 Sept. 1822, in the same capacity and as Admiralty-Mate, to the and, Coast Blockade ships, each under the orders of Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. He obtained his commission 19 July, 1823; and (with the exception of a few weeks again passed, in 1824, in the ) remained thenceforward on half-pay.

Lieut. M‘Leod married, 19 Jan. 1841, Sarah Elizabeth, second daughter of B. Alder, Esq., of Brixton.

 MACLEOD. 

is eldest son of Roderick Macleod, Esq., Lord Lieutenant of co. Cromarty, Deputy-Lieutenant of Rosshire, and late M.P. for co. Sutherland, by Isabella, daughter of Wm. Cunninghame, Esq., of Lainshaw, in Ayrshire; and grandson of the present Robt. Bruce Aeneas Macleod, Esq., of Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and of Invergorden Castle, in Rosshire.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 Feb. 1831; passed his examination 19 Aug. 1837; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 26 Aug. 1841, was serving in the Mediterranean as Mate of the 84, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley. His appointments have since been