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Rh  to British trade during the revolutionary movements at New Grenada. For several months after the death of Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Harvey he performed the duties of senior officer at Jamaica. He returned home on the occasion of his elevation to Post-rank, 23 Nov. 1841.

Capt. Nepean married, 7 June, 1825, Mary, daughter of Capt. Stuart, R.N., of Montagu Square, London, by whom he has issue. – Burnett and Holmes.

 NEPEAN. 

was born 6 Jan. 1785. He is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, 3 March, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Browne, lying in Hamoaze; and between 1799 and Aug. 1803 was employed on various parts of the Home station in the 74, Capt. Thos. Foley, frigate, Capt. Fred. Watkins,, Capt. Richards, 36, Capt. Hon. John Colville,  sloop, Capt. Rich. Hawkins, and and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Geo. Wolfe. After a further servitude in the 80, bearing the flag in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Dacres, also in the Quebec and  frigates, each under the orders of Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas (with whom he visited Cadiz and Teneriffe), and in the 40, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, he was promoted, on his return home from Gibraltar, to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 25 Sept. 1806; and next in succession appointed – 29 of the same month, to the sloop, Capt. Jas. Grant, stationed off Lisbon and Oporto – 21 Dec. 1807, to the 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Albemarle Bertie in the Channel – 8 April, 1808, to the, Capts. John Hill and Robt. England, employed between Falmouth and the Downs – about July, 1809, to the 38, Capts. Lord Cochrane, Thos. Gould, and Hon. Henry Duncan, attached to the force in the North Sea and Mediterranean – and, in 1811, to the Regulating service, which he left in 1814. While belonging to the he was wounded in her boats in an attack upon a privateer; and when in the, in 1809, he assisted at the destruction of a fort in the river Scheldt, took part in the operations connected with the siege of Flushing, and was a second time wounded in an affair with five Dutch schuyts near South Beveland. His last appointments were – 26 April, 1823, to the Water Guard, in which service he continued, we believe, but a short period – 28 Oct. 1841, to the post (which he retained until the close of 1843) of Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel – and, 4 Jan. and 22 May, 1845, to the 110, and  120, both commanded by Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, at Devonport, where he is now employed.

 NESHAM. 

, born in 1771, is son of the late Christ. Nesham, Esq. (who served as Aide-de-Camp to Colonel Monson at the capture of Manilla in 1762), by Mary Williams, sister of Wm. Peere Williams Freeman, Esq., who died Admiral of the Fleet (1830), and a relative of the late Lord North.

This officer entered the Navy, 21 Jan. 1782, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the frigate, Capt. Jas. Montagu; and on 20 June, in the following year, was present, as Midshipman, in the action fought between Sir Edw. Hughes and M. de Suffrein off Cuddalore. On his return to England in the spring of 1785 he successively joined the 74 and  32, Capts. Adam Duncan and Joseph Ellison, under whom he served at Portsmouth and in the Channel until March, 1788. In June, 1790, he became attached to the 50, bearing the flag at Newfoundland of Vice-Admiral Milbank; and on 17 of the following Nov. he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 16 July, 1791, and 1 Sept. 1792, to the sloop, Capt. John Doling, and  32, Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats and Robt. Moorsom, both in the Channel – and, 11 May, 1793, to the 50, Capts. Wm. Bentinck, Henry D’Esterre Darby, Henry Warre, and Wm. Hotham, in which ship we find him employed on the West India, Newfoundland, Lisbon, and North Sea stations. Under the officer last mentioned he was present, as First-Lieutenant, in the mutiny at the Nore, and in the action off Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797. Being awarded a second promotal commission 2 Jan, 1798, he was next, 13 April, 1801, invested with the command (which he retained until posted 29 April, 1802) of the sloop. His after-appointments were – 26 Oct. 1804, to the 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Graves off Rochefort, where he continued until Feb. 1805 – and, 25 March, 1807, 6 July, 1808, and 21 July, 1809, to the 44,  64, and  74, all on the West India station, whither, in the, he escorted a fleet of merchantmen. In that ship Capt. Nesham also co-operated in the reduction of Marie-Galante in March, 1808. In the he assisted, in Feb. 1809, and was mentioned in terms of high approbation for his able support of Commodore Geo. Cockburn, at the capture of Martinique; where, in command with Capt. Robt. Barton of a body of about 400 seamen and marines, he superintended (prior to the erection of batteries, whose fire he soon rendered ) the transport of the heavy cannon, mortars, and howitzers up to Mount Sourier, from the eastern side of Fort Edward, a service, owing to the rains and the deepness of the roads, of the utmost labour and difficulty. On 15 of the following April the was severely cut up in an engagement with the French frigates Henriade and Félicité, under the guns of Fort Matilda, Guadeloupe. In Dec. 1809 Capt. Nesham returned to England and paid the Captain off, that ship being found unfit for further service. His last appointment was, 22 July, 1830, to the 74, in the Mediterranean, where he remained about 12 months. He became a Retired Rear-Admiral 10 Jan. 1837, but was transferred to the Active list 17 Aug. 1840, and on 9 Nov. 1846 advanced to the rank he now holds.

The Vice-Admiral married, first, in 1802, Margaret Anne, youngest daughter of the first, sister of the second, and aunt of the present Lord Graves; and (that lady dying in 1808) secondly, in July, 1833, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Colonel Nicholas Bayly, brother of the late Earl of Uxbridge, and first-cousin of the Marquis of Anglesey, K.G., G.C.B. His only daughter by his former marriage became the wife, in Jan. 1831, of Major Lloyd, of the 73rd regt.

 NETTLETON. 

passed his examination 13 Feb. 1837; and between 1810 and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 8 Aug. 1845, was employed on the Mediterranean and African stations, as Mate, in the 78, Capt. Edw. Barnard, 72, Capt. Sir Geo. Rose Sartorius, and steam-sloop, Capt. Walter Grimston Bucknall Estcourt. He then joined the store-ship at Ascension, Capt. Arthur Morrell; and since 24 April, 1846, has been serving in the  troop-ship), Capt. Wm. Radcliffe.

 NEVILL. 

is son of the late Wm. Nevill, Esq., of Easton, Hants; and brother-in-law of J Griffith, Esq., of H.M. Ordnance.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the, Capt. John Irwin, lying at Spithead; removed, in Feb. 1810, to the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth; and again, 30 Nov. 1812, embarked, as a 