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758 on her passage whither the had the misfortune, at noon on 8 Sept. 1812, to be caught in a typhoon, which before midnight left her nothing standing but her foremast and bowsprit. In the early part of 1813 Mr. Meynell was nominated Acting-Commander of the at Bombay; and, on 24 Aug. in the same year, he was there officially promoted into the. Quitting that vessel in the ensuing Oct., he was next, 23 Aug. and 24 Nov. 1815, appointed Acting-Captain of the 50-gun ships and ; to the latter of which, bearing the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm at St. Helena, the Admiralty confirmed him 10 April, 1816. He was paid off 10 Sept. 1817, and has not been since afloat.

From 22 March, 1820, until the death of George IV., Capt. Meynell (who is Senior of 1816) filled the post of Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to that monarch; as he also did to William IV. from 24 July, 1830, until 23 March, 1831, when he resigned. He was returned to Parliament in 1826 for the borough of Lisburn, which he continued to represent until 1847. For some time prior to April, 1845, Capt. Meynell held the office of Groom in Waiting on her present Majesty. – Hallett and Robinson.

 MIALL. 

entered the Navy. 24 Feb. 1800, as Third-cl, Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Geo. Murray and Edw. Buller, bearing the flag in the Channel of Earl St. Vincent; and from June, 1802, until Oct. 1806, was employed on the North American station, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman, in the 50-gun ships and, Capts. Jas, Oughton, Fras. Wm. Fane, Alex. S. Kene, Wm. Lyall, John Talbot, Henry Whitby, and Salusbury Pryce Humphreys. In the, under Capt. Talbot, he assisted at the capture, 23 Feb. 1805, of the French frigate La Ville de Milan, of 48 guns, and the simultaneous re-capture of her prize, the 32. On leaving the as above he was appointed to the command, with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, of the  schooner, also on the American station, where, in April, 1807, he was ordered to act as Lieutenant-Commander of the, another schooner, to which he was confirmed by a commission dated 11 April, 1808. His succeeding appointments were, to the command – 1 June and 25 July, 1809, of the and  schooners, in the latter of which we find him employed until Sept. 1815 in carrying despatches to the West Indies, the coast of Africa, the Mediterranean, Newfoundland, and the coasts of Portugal, France, and Spain – 5 April, 1826, for three years, of the  Revenue-vessel – 1 Nov. 1832, of the  3, on the Jamaica station, where he remained until the following Aug. – and, 6 Sept. 1833, of the  3, in which vessel, attached to the force on the African coast, he had the fortune, in the course of three years and a half, to effect the capture of five slavers, having on board 1115 negroes, and to make prize of two others fully equipped. During the nine months immediately antecedent to his promotion to the rank of Commander, 28 June, 1838, Lieut. Miall officiated as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel. He has since been on half-pay. – Joseph Woodhead.

 MICHELL. 

, born 8 April, 1788, is son of Sampson Michell, Esq., Lieutenant R.N., who by permission entered the Naval service of the late Queen of Portugal, and died an Admiral at Rio de Janeiro in Jan. 1809. He is the only brother of Lieut.-Colonel C. C. Michell, Surveyor-General at the Cape of Good Hope.

This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy 27 April, 1800, and embarked, 17 Sept. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the 24, Capts. John Nicholas and Wm. Hoste, employed at first in the Channel and off the coast of Africa, and then in the Mediterranean, where, on 6 Oct. 1805, we find him serving with the boats under Lieut. Andrew Pellet Green at the capture of the Mestuo la Solidad Spanish privateer of 6 guns, and a convoy of which the latter had charge. In the ensuing Nov., having followed Capt. Hoste into the 32, he assisted at the defeat, although simultaneously opposed by the fire of an immense battery, of a division of about 30 Spanish gun-boats, which had come out of Algesiras in the hope of capturing a British convoy. He was afterwards present in the operations against the French on the coast of Calabria; and in the course of 1806 he became in succession attached to the 18, Capt. Robt. Pettet, sloop, Capt. Wm. Landless, and 98, flag-ship of Lord Collingwood – all, too, in the Mediterranean, on which station he continued until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 29 May, 1807. Obtaining an appointment, in the following Oct., to the 38, Capts. Rich. Hussey Moubray and Jas. Alex. Gordon, he aided in that ship at the capture, 26 March, 1808, of the Friedland brig-of-war, of 16 guns, having on board the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian marine; and was wounded in two successful boat expeditions on the coast of Albania. On the first of those occasions he was in sole charge of the boats, and evinced so much zeal, professional ability, and gallantry, that his name was brought under the special notice of the Commander-in-Chief. We may add that, out of seven casualties that occurred, his own boat sustained the loss of 1 killed and 5 wounded. The injuries he himself received were rewarded by a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. During a subsequent servitude of five years and nine months, from June, 1809, to March, 1815, in the 38, Capt. Chas, Malcolm, Mr. Michell, as may be seen by a reference to  was most actively employed on the Home, West India, and Brazilian stations, assisting during the period at the capture of nine privateers (of one of which he took possession in a heavy gale), carrying altogether 103 guns and 735 men, and co-operating extensively, in 1812-13, with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. When the frigate, in Jan. of the former year, was cast away in the Teigneuse passage, he made one trip more than any other officer to the wreck, although under fire of the enemy, and brought off the Captain and the last of the crew. On leaving the as above he joined, first the  98, and then the  100, bearing each the flag of Lord Exmouth, who, on the day preceding the battle of Algiers, placed him in charge, with the rank of Commander, of the whole of the battering flotilla attached to his squadron. During the ever-memorable bombardment Capt. Michell, in execution of the duty with which he had been intrusted, went on board the Dutch Admiral and every British ship engaged in the line of battle. In the midst of the conflict, when, as it was supposed, the Captain of the had been mortally wounded, he was sent for by the Commander-in-Chief, and directed to act in his stead. He was removed from the command of the flotilla to that of the bomb, 1 Sept. 1816; and on 16 of the same month he was officially promoted. Quitting the on 21 of the ensuing Oct., Capt. Michel! did not again go afloat until Dec. 1826, On 27 of that month he obtained an appointment to the 18, fitting for the Mediterranean, where, it appears, he was attached to the commissariat of the French army in the Morea, and was recommended to the consideration of the Admiralty by Sir Edw. Codrington and Sir Pulteney Malcolm, the successive Commanders-in-Chief, and by H.M. Ambassador at the Porte, in a manner that procured him a Post-commission, dated 22 Feb. 1830. His last appointments were, 23 April, 1840, and 4 Aug. 1841, to the 24, and  36, in the former of which ships he united in the operations on the coast of Syria; and in the latter saved, by his zeal and promptitude, the  sloop-of-war from being lost, after she had been a week on shore on the