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714  to the 80, commanded in the Meditenanean by Capts. Hon. Buncombe Pleydell Bouverie and Sir Thos. Fellowes. Joining next, in June, 1837, the 72, bearing the flag of his uncle, Sir Fred. Lewis Maitland, he served as Mate of that ship at the taking of Currachee in Feb. 1839, and in her boats in a skirmish at Bushehr, in the Persian Gulf, in April of the same year. His appointments as Lieutenant, a rank he attained on 6 of the month last mentioned, appear to have been – 10 July, 1839, to the 18, Capt. Wm. Warren – 23 June, 1840, again to the, Capt. Thos. Maitland – 16 Oct. 1841, to the command of the 10 – and, 20 Sept. 1842, to the  42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier. In the Mr. Maitland was in action with the enemy’s junks at Chuenpee; and, when in the, he assisted in demolishing the enemy’s fortifications at the latter place – landed, during the attack on the Bogue forts, in command, with Mr. W. H. Hall of the , of a party of seamen and marines, and took possession of Little Tycocktow, spiking at the same time its guns, and destroying a neighbouring encampment – and united in the operations against Canton, Amoy, Chusan, Chinghae, and Ningpo. In the attack upon Amoy his skull was fractured and he was otherwise much injured. During his command of the we find him particularly mentioned for his conduct at the capture of Chapoo, where, after he had assisted in landing the troops, he accompanied them on their advance, and with his own hands slew two mandarins. He was also employed in the same vessel in surveying the Yang-tse-kiang, and was present in action with the Woosung batteries, and at the pacification of Nanking. On his return to England in the in March, 1843, Mr. Maitland found that his services had procured him a Commander’s commission dated 23 Dec. 1842. His last appointment was, 31 Jan. 1846, to the command of the 14, fitting for the North America and West India station, where he remained until his health obliged him to invalid, in March, 1847. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 MALCOLM, Kt. 

, born 5 Sept. 1782, is tenth and youngest son of the late Geo. Malcolm, Esq., of Burnfoot, co. Dumfries (a descendant of the Malcolms of Lahore and Innertiel), by Margaret, sister of Admiral Sir Thos. Pasley, who held a Rear-Admiral’s command, and was raised to the dignity of a Baronet for his gallantry, in the action of 1 June, 1794. He is brother of Sir Jas. Malcolm, K.C.B., Colonel of Marines, who was with Lord Howe at the relief of Gibraltar, and earned distinction during the late war in Spain and North America – of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Sir Pulteney Malcolm was born 20 Feb. 1768, and entered the Navy, 20 Oct. 1778, on board the frigate, commanded by his uncle, Capt. Pasley. He was promoted (after having shared in an action between Commodore Johnstone and a French squadron under M. de Suffrein in Porto Praya Bay) to the rank of Lieutenant 3 March, 1783; was made Commander 3 April, 1794; and posted 22 Oct. in the same year. Between the latter period and that of his advancement to Flag-rank, 4 Dec. 1813, he held command in succession of the 32,  and  74’s, flag-ships of Vice-Admiral Rainier,  100,, , , and  74’s, and  110. In those ships his general activity, and the skill and judgment he exhibited on all occasions, gained him much distinction. He commanded the in Nelson’s pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies; also in Sir John Duckworth’s action (for which he obtained a gold medal and a vase fiom the Patriotic Society, valued at 100l.); and at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads. In the he officiated as Captain of the Fleet under Lord Keith. During the latter portion of the operations on the Coast of North America he held a Rear-Admiral’s command, and was employed in that capacity in the attack upon New Orleans. In the summer of 1815, Sir Pulteney (who had been nominated in 1812 a Colonel of Royal Marines, and in Jan. 1815 a K.C.B.) was appointed to the command of a Naval force ordered to co-operate with the Duke of Wellington and the allied armies. He next, from the spring of 1816 until the close of 1817, commanded in chief on the St. Helena station; and, attaining the rank of Vice-Admiral 19 July, 1821, was further employed as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean from June, 1828, until June, 1831, in the Downs and on the coast of Holland with the combined fleets of France aud Spain under his orders in 1832, and again in the Mediterranean from May, 1833, until April, 1834. He was created a G.C.M G. in 1829, a G.C.B. in 1833, and a full Admiral 10 Jan. 1837. He died 20 July, 1838. – and of the late Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., a General Officer in the Army, who died in 1833. Another of his brothers, George, a Lieutenant in the R.N., died at St. Domingo in 1794. Sir Charles is first-cousin of Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Briggs, G.C.M.G.

This officer (whose name had been borne from 10 Sept. 1791 until Aug. 1792 on the books of the 74, bearing the broad pendant of his uncle. Commodore Pasley, and from April to Dec. 1793 on those of the  32, Capt. Bartholomew Sam. Rowley) embarked, in April, 1795, as Midshipman, on board the  32, commanded by his brother, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, and fitting for the East India station; where, in Jan. 1798, he was Master’s Mate of that vessel, when, in company with  38, she entered the Spanish harbour of Manilla under French disguise, and (notwithstanding that there were lying there three ships of the line and three frigates) assisted in capturing seven boats, 200 men, and a large quantity of ammunition and implements of war. In the course of the same month we find Mr. Malcolm present in an action with the enemy’s batteries at Samboangon, in the island of Magindanao, in which the loss sustained by the two ships amounted to 6 killed and 16 wounded. Accompanying his brother in June, 1798, into the 74, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Peter Rainier, he was promoted, 12 Jan. 1799, to a Lieutenancy in that ship. He continued in her until nominated Acting-Commander, 3 Oct. 1801, of the sloop – an appointment which the Admiralty confirmed 28 May, 1802. On his arrival home in the spring of 1803, as Acting-Captain of the 24, he found that he had been officially posted on 29 of the preceding Dec. His succeeding appointments were – 6 April, 1804, for four months, to the  64, Stationed in the North Sea – 17 Sept. 1806, to the  32 – 17 June, 1809, to the  38, in which ship he continued until Aug. 1815 – 15 Sept. 1817, to the  44, fitting for the flag of Sir Home Popham, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, whence he invalided in Feb. 1819 – and 8 July, 1822, and 30 June, 1826, to the  and  yachts, lying at Dublin for the purpose of attending on the Lord Lieutenant, the Marquess Wellesley, a service on which he continued until 28 Nov. 1827. On the night of 30 Oct. 1807 Capt. Malcolm, then in the, made a desperate attack with four boats on a convoy of 30 sail, lying in CouquetConquet [sic] Roads, near Brest, under the protection of several heavy batteries, a cutter, and two gun-brigs, but was eventually obliged to retire with a loss of 7 men killed, and 16, including himself slightly, wounded. Towards the close of the same year it was his fortune to be the chief instrument, as testified by an address from the merchants, of preserving the property of the British at Oporto from falling into the hands of the French. So great was his anxiety on the occasion to afford whatever assistance he could, that, although on the point of starting on a cruize which promised to be most productive, he relinquished that intention, and, when ordered to England with a convoy of 49 sail, not only received on board the plate and other valuable property belonging to the merchants, but actually took charge of 180 pipes of wine – a service of which the Admiralty