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Rh battle of Algiers. He was made Lieutenant, 4 April, 1825, into the 26, Capt. Houston Stewart, on the Halifax station, whence he invalided in the following April; and, since 19 Oct. 1846, has been serving as Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.

 MILLER. 

entered the Navy, 9 March, 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capt. Theoph. Jones, with whom he served off Brest until April, 1802, the greater part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. Re-embarking, 30 July, 1803, on board the 98, Capt. Jas. Vashon, he made a voyage in that ship to St. Helena; on his return whence, he removed, in Jan. 1804, to the 98, Capts. Joseph Sydney Yorke and Geo. Losack, attached to the fleet in the Channel. After a servitude of three years and a half on the West India and Home stations in the 36, Capt. Henry Vansittart, he was nominated, 1 Aug. 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the  18, Capt. John Coode. Rejoining Capt. Vansittart in Feb. 1810, as Master’s Mate, on board the {{sc|Fortunée}, he sailed with him in the course of that year for the Mediterranean in escort of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle; under whose personal orders he was afterwards employed in the 110,  74, and as Acting-Lieutenant in the  74. Mr. Miller (whose commission bears date 27 July, 1812) was next, 28 Aug. 1813, appointed to the bomb, Capt. Wm. Hext; in which vessel he shared in the operations of 1814 in the river Gironde and assisted in throwing shells into the fortress of Blaye. He was paid off in Sept. of the latter year, and has not been since afloat.

 MILLER. 

entered the Navy 5 Aug. 1831; passed his examination in 1839; obtained his commission 25 June, 1840; and was successively appointed – 6 July, in the same year, to the 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, under whom he served at the blockade of Alexandria, witnessed the siege of Barcelona, and escorted troops to the Cape of Good Hope – and, 3 Nov. 1843, to the 26, Capt. Chas. Talbot, on the East India station, whence he returned home, as First-Lieutenant, and was paid off, in 1847.

 MILLER. 

died 29 Sept. 1845, at Malta, in command of the steam-sloop.

This officer entered the Navy 16 June, 1808; passed his examination in 1815; was slightly wounded on board the 40, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, at the battle of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816; and obtained his commission 27 March, 1826. His succeeding appointments were – 28 April, in the latter year, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 27 Dec. 1831, as Senior, to the 18, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the West India station, whence he returned at the close of 1832 – and, 6 April, 1844, to the command (which he retained until the period of his death) of the steamer. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 MILLER. 

entered the Navy 1 Nov. 1821; passed his examination in 1827; and obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1837. His appointments have since been – 8 Feb. in the latter year, to the 16, Capt. Alex. Milne, attached to the force in North America and the West Indies, where he was superseded in March, 1838 – 9 March, 1839, to the command of the brigantine 6, on the same station – and, 26 April, 1845, as Senior (a few months after the  had been paid off) to the  42, Capt. John Norman Campbell, now in the East Indies. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 MILLER. 

entered the Navy in 1833; passed his examination 7 June, 1839; and after serving as Mate on the Mediterranean, Home, and East India stations, in the 120, flag-ship of Sir John Acworth Ommanney,  84, Capt. Mich. Seymour, and 72, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 July, 1844. His appointments have since been – 30 Aug. 1844, again to the, in which ship he returned home and was paid off in 1846 – and 1 Jan. 1847, to the 120, bearing the flag of Sir John Louis, Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth, where he is at present employed.

 MILLER. 

entered the Navy 5 Nov. 1811; and was made Lieutenant, 17 Oct. 1825, into the 18, Capt. Octavius Vernon (now Harcourt), on the West India station, whence he returned in July, 1827. He has been serving, since 8 Feb. 1843, as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.

 MILLER. 

entered the Navy 16 May, 1831; passed his examination 2 Aug. 1837; and was for some time Mate of the and  sloops, Capts. Henry Wells Giffard and Thos. Jordaine Clarke. In the former vessel he took part in the capture of Aden in 1839; and in the (of which, for his China services, he was created a Lieutenant 8 Oct. 1841 ) he assisted at the first and second capture of Canton, the reduction of Amoy and Chinghae, the destruction of the Chinese fire-rafts, and the attacks on Tsekee, Woosung, and Shanghae. When next in the 16, Capt. Geo. Greville Wellesley, we find him participating in the operations of 1842 in the Yangtse-Kiang. He returned to England in that vessel in the summer of 1844, and was subsequently appointed – 31 May, 1845, to the 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sam. Hood Inglefield, on the southeast coast of America – and, 31 July, 1846, to the command, on the same station, of the brigantine of 3 guns, which he brought home and put out of commission in 1847. – J. Hinxman.

<section end="Miller, William Stewart" /> <section begin="Millett, John" />MILLETT. 

entered the Navy, 19 Feb. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the receiving-ship at Falmouth, Lieut.-Commanders Jas. Manderson and Jas. Fagan; and in the course of the same year, after having cruized for a short time in the 80, Capt. Wm. Lukin, joined the 74, commanded at first by the same officer, and next by Capts. Jas. Katon, John Surman Carden, and Henry. Continuing in that ship until April, 1812, he served with a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood at the capture, off Rochefort, 25 Sept. 1806, of four heavy French frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46 and Infatigable 44, struck to the – accompanied the expedition of 1807 to Copenhagen, where, throughout the siege, he was actively employed in command of the boats – was much engaged in affording protection to the Baltic trade – and when at Lisbon, in 1810, was sent on shore on detached service at Fort St. Juliaõ. After a short attachment at Portsmouth to the 74, Capt. Edw. Leveson Gower, he removed in June, 1812, to the 22, Capt. Wm. King, off Cadiz; and in Dec. of the same year he became Master’s Mate of the 74, Capts. Geo. Parker and Norborne Thompson. In that ship, in April 1814, Mr. Millett witnessed the fall of Genoa. He took up, in May 1815, a commission bearing date 15 Feb. in that year; was next, from 22 Jan. 1825 until May, 1827 employed in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, Capts. Wm. <section end="Millett, John" />