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706 – 26 Feb. 1842, to the 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, on the Lisbon station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the summer of 1843 – 10 Jan. 1844, to the  troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey – and 3 Jan. 1846, after a few months of half-pay, to the 20, Capt. Henry John Worth, now in the Pacific. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 M‘LEOD. 

entered the Navy, 18 June, 1802, as Third-cl. Boy, on board the 74, Capts. Peter Turner Bover, Henry Matson, and Thos. Graves, on the Leeward Island station, where he removed, in March, 1804, to the 44, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne. In Aug. 1806, after he had been for ten months attached to the, bearing the flag of Admiral Montagu at Spithead, he became Midshipman of the 14, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Montagu Higginson, under whom it was his fate to be wrecked, off the Ile d’Oléron, and taken prisoner, 2 March, 1807. Being restored to liberty in Dec. 1809, he next, during several months of 1810, served in the West Indies on board the and, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. He was there, in April, 1811, nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the 38, Capts. Norborne Thompson, Joseph Swabey Tetley, and John Allen; in which vessel, on proceeding to the Mediterranean, he took part, under Capt. Tetley, in a very gallant skirmish, which terminated in her repulse, 22 Nov. 1811, of a French ship-of-the-line and two frigates belonging to the Toulon fleet. Mr. M‘Leod, whose official promotion had taken place on 10 of the preceding Sept., was next, 26 Aug. 1812, appointed to the 16, Capts. Geo. Rose Sartorius, Wm. Bateman Dashwood, and Geo. King. While with Capt. Dashwood he assisted in capturing, 1 Nov. 1813, Le Lion privateer of 16 guns and 69 men, after a close action of 10 minutes, fought off the coast of France. In Jan. 1815 he rejoined Capt. Sartorius on board the 20. He cruized in that vessel until the following Sept., and has since been on half-pay. – J. Hinxman.

 M‘MILLAN. 

entered the Navy, 25 Sept. 1791, as a Boy, on board the 74, Capt. Sir Andw. Snape Hamond, in which ship, with the exception of an interval between Nov. 1795 and Jan. 1797, he continued to serve, under Capts. Robt. Mann, Davidge Gould, Augustus Montgomery, and Sir Thos. Byard, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, until May, 1798 – latterly in the capacity of Midshipman. He was in consequence present in 1795 in Hotham’s partial actions, and in company with the 74, when that ship was taken by a French squadron under M. Richery. On finally leaving the Bedford, he joined the 80, bearing the successive flags of Lords Nelson and Keith, and commanded, among other Captains, by Sir Edw. Berry, under whom, while at the blockade of Malta, he assisted at the 'capture, 18 Feb. 1800, of Le Généreux 74 and Ville de Marseilles' armed store-ship, and, 31 March following, after a desperate conflict in which the (in company at the time with the  64 and  36) sustained a loss of 8 men killed and 64 wounded, of Le Guillaume Tell, of 84 guns and 1000 men, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decrès. Continuing in the same ship until the peace of Amiens, Mr. M‘Millan was afforded an opportunity of sharing in the operations in Egypt in 1801. Between Feb. 1803 and the date of his official promotion, 31 Oct. 1810, he served, occasionally as Acting-Lieutenant, in 13 different ships, under various distinguished officers, on the Home and Baltic stations – commanding during that period the mortar-vessel, off Boulogne, for nearly 12 months in 1805-6, and accompanying, in the  sloop, Capt. Jas. Boxer, the expedition to the Walcheren in 1809. His last appointments were – 12 Jan. 1811, for nine months, to the 16, Capt. Arthur Atchison, attached to the force in the Channel – and, 20 April, 1812, to the  10, Capt. John M‘Kerlie. In that vessel, which he left in Jan. 1814, Lieut. M‘Millan was actively employed off Flushing, Heligoland, and the German rivers.

 M‘MURDO. 

, born 24 Sept. 1812, is son of Lieut.-Colonel M‘Murdo, who lost his eyesight, and in the end his life, from the effects of a wound received in action in the West Indies.

This offtcer entered the Navy, 6 Oct. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capts. Fras. Fead, Geo. Jackson, and John Leith, stationed in the West Indies, where he removed, in Sept. 1825, to the 18, Capt. Chas. Croker. After serving for nearly two years at home, as Midshipman of the and  74’s, both commanded by Capt. Henry Hill, and  10, Capt. Russell Henry Manners, he proceeded in 1828 to the Mediterranean in the  46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, under whom, in Oct. of that year, he co-operated in the reduction of Morea Castle, the last hold of the Turks in the Peloponnesus. He had been previously employed at the blockade of Navarin. The being put out of commission in June, 1831, Mr. M‘Murdo (who had passed his examination in the preceding Nov.) was appointed Mate, a few months afterwards, of the  28, Capt. Geo. Robt. Lambert, and ordered to the East Indies, whence he returned home and was paid off in Aug. 1835. For the services he had during that period performed in recovering the crew of a wrecked whaler from the natives of New Zealand, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 15 Feb. 1836. His succeeding appointments were – 23 May, 1836, to the bomb, Capt. Geo. Back, whom he accompanied on a disastrous voyage of discovery to the northward of Charles Island, in Hudson’s Bay, returning to England in the autumn of 1837 – 2 Feb. 1838, to the 28, Capt. Henry Smith, from which vessel, on her arrival in the East Indies, his health obliged him to invalid, 27 Oct. in the same year – and, 23 Aug. 1839, again, as First-Lieutenant, to the, Capt. Fras. Rawdon Moira Crozier, fitting for an explorative mission to the Antarctic regions, where he remained until illness compelled him to return in Aug. 1842. He was advanced, in consequence, to his present rank, 4 Oct. 1843; and since 11 June, 1846, has been in command of the 12, on the coast of Africa. – Messrs. Chard.

 M‘NAGHTEN. 

passed his examination 6 Sept. 1837; and served as Mate, on the East India, Mediterranean, and Home stations, in the 72, Capt. Sir Humphrey Fleming Senhouse,  84, Capts. Sir Chas. Sullivan and Geo. Fred, Rich (flag-ship for some time of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen), 10, Capt. Thos. Fras. Birch, and 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry. He obtained his commission 1 Sept. 1845; and since 8 of the following Oct. has been serving in North America and the West Indies in the 26, Capts. Chas. Colville Frankland and Granville Gower Loch.

 MACNAMARA, Kt. 

, born in 1794, is sixth son of the late Fras. Macnamara, Esq., of Doolen, co. Clare, by Jane, daughter of Geo. Stamer, Esq., of Camelly, in the same county; and brother of the present Wm. Nugent Macnamara, Esq., of Doolen, a Major of Militia, and M.P., since 1830, for co. Clare. He is a descendant of the ancient Admirals of Munster, whose office is said to have originated the name “Mac-na-mara,” or “Son of the Sea.”

This officer entered the Navy, 26 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Jas. Macnamara; previously to accompanying whom, as