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810 , on board the 74, sheerhulk, at Spithead, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page. He sailed soon afterwards for St. Helena, as a Volunteer, in the 74, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley; an don his return successively joined, in Jan. 1814, the 100, Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, and, as Midshipman, the 36 Capts Gilbert Heathcote and Sir John Louis. After serving in that ship at Bermuda, as Master’s Mate in the 74, and  80, commanded at Plymouth by Capt. Chas. Ogle, and as Admiralty-Midshipman in the 32, Capt. Wm. Bowles, in South America, he joined, in March, 1816, the 36, Capt. John Brett Purvis; of which ship, stationed in the East Indies, he was created a Lieutenant 12 Dec. in the same year. Being paid off in July, 1819, he was next appointed – 28 May, 1822, to the 60, Capt. Geo. Augustus Westphall, under whom he escorted Lord Amherst and suite to Bengal – and, 14 June, 1824, to the sloop, Capt. Thos. Martin, fitting for South America. He attained the rank of Commander 9 Feb. 1825; and was subsequently, from 27 Nov. 1841, until advanced on his return to England to Post-rank, 2 May, 1846, employed in that capacity in the 16, again on the East India station. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Nevill is a Magistrate for Winchester and co. Hants.

 NEVILLE. 

entered the Navy, in 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capts. John Drew and Jas. Macnamara. In that ship, besides sharing as Midshipman in many privateer actions, he took part, off Ferrol, 20 Oct. 1799, in a most gallant and all but successful attack upon one of five Spanish frigates in escort, with two armed brigs, of a large convoy of merchantmen. Becoming Master’s Mate, in May, 1800, of the frigate, Capt. Hassard Stackpoole, he obtained command, on the night of 29 Aug. following, of one of the boats of a squadron, 20 in number, under the orders of Lieut. Henry Burke, and assisted in cutting out, close to the batteries in Vigo Bay, La Guêpe privateer, of 18 guns and 161 men, which vessel, 25 of whose people were killed and 40 wounded, was in 15 minutes boarded and carried, with a loss to the British of 3 seamen and 1 marine killed, 3 Lieutenants, 12 seamen, and 5 marines wounded, and 1 seaman missing. While Acting Senior-Lieutenant of the same ship, which was soon afterwards burnt in Aboukir Bay, Mr. Neville was present at the landing of the troops in Egypt in March, 1801. In June of that year he was again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the 74, Capt. Geo. Martin, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; and on 3 Dec. 1802 he was officially promoted. His succeeding appointments were – 8 April, 1803, and 21 July, 1804, to the 64 and  50, Capts. Hon. Geo. Byng and Robt. Hall, employed off Margate and in the North Sea – 5 July, 1805, to the sloop, Capts. Wm. Brownrigg, Hon. Michael De Courcy, Joseph Spear, and Thos. Tudor Tucker, in the West Indies – 11 April, 1807, to the 32, Capt. Henry Matson, on the same station, whence, in the ensuing June, he returned with convoy to England – 8 March, 1808, to the  18, Capt. Rich. Harward, which vessel was cast away five months afterwards on the coast of Holland – 17 Dec. 1808, for a few weeks, to the sloop, Capt. Creyke- 3 Nov. and 26 Dec. 1810, to the  and  frigates, commanded by Capt. Hassard Stackpoole in the West Indies and on the North American station, whence he invalided in Nov. 1812 – 3 July, 1813, for two years, to the  44, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, employed at first in the North Sea, and then again on the American coast – and, 7 April, 1826, in a similar capacity, to the receiving-ship off the Tower, Capt Jas. Couch. On 19 Sept. 1814, being at the time Senior of the, he took command of her command of her boats, captured by boarding, and afterwards destroyed, at the mouth of Little Egg Harbour, the American letter-of-marque brig Regent, of 5 guns and 35 men, and 35 men, 2 of whom were wounded, with a loss to the British of himself and 1 seaman wounded. He attained his present rank 2 Sept. 1828; and has since been on half-pay.

He was awarded, 23 Oct. 1815, a pension of 91l. 5s. per annum for his wounds.

 NEWCOMEN. 

entered the Navy 5 Aug. 1831; passed his examination 27 Aug. 1838; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 29 Aug. 1842, had been serving for some time in the Mediterranean as Mate of the 10, Lieut.-Commander Wm. Edmonstone. His succeeding appointments were - 12 Sept 1842 as Additional, to the 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R Owen, also in the Mediterranean – 24 June, 1843, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 5 March, 1844, again as Additional, to the 72, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane in the East Indies, whence he returned at the close of 1845 – 20 March, 1846, to the steam-sloop, Capt. Sir Chas. Hotham, fitting for the coast of Africa – and, 3 Aug. 1846, to the 18, Capt. Robt. Hibbert Bartholomew Rowley, which vessel was paid off in 1847, on her arrival home from the S.E. coast of America. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 NEWELL. 

entered the Navy, 18 May, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capts. Chas. Grant and Wm. Ferris; under the former of whom, on his return from a voyage to the West Indies, he participated in an attack made in Nov. 1810 upon the two French frigates Amazone and Elize, lying aground under the protection of several strong batteries in the neighbourhood of La Hogue. In Oct. 1811 he rejoined Capt. Grant on board the 64; and, continuing to serve with him in the  74 until Sept. 1814, was present in that ship in a partial action with the French fleet off Toulon 5 Nov. 1813, also in the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn, and at the reduction of Genoa and Savona. Being received, next, on board the 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, he was afforded an opportunity, 18 July, 1815, of witnessing the capture, by the boats of a squadron, of three armed vessels and a convoy in the harbour of Corrijou, near Abervrach. He took up, in the following month, a commission bearing date 4 March, 1815; and was next appointed – 23 Sept. 1817, to the 18, Capts. Geo. Matthew Jones and Chas. Grenville Randolph, in which vessel he was for nearly five years employed on the Cork station – and, 11 May, 1824, as First-Lieutenant, to the  18, Capts. Wm. Hotham and Wm. Pitt Canning, fitting for Halifax, where and at the Cape of Good Hope he served for about two years. Attaining the rank of Commander 20 Nov. 1828, he was appointed in that capacity, 28 Jan. 1836, to the 18, and next, 1 Jan. 1838, to the Second-Captaincy of the  84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, both in the Mediterranean. Since his advancement to Post-rank, which took place 28 June in the latter year, he has been on half-pay. Messrs. Stilwell.

 NEWENHAM. 

, born 8 Feb. 1790, is grandson of the late Sir Edw. Newenham, three years M.P. for co. Dublin His uncle fell in command of a fort at Toulon in 1793

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Feb. 1803, as Third-cl. Boy, under the patronage of Admiral Lord Hood, on board the 38, Cant John Poo Beresford; in which frigate and, as Midshipman in the  of 38 guns and 200 men, Capt Sir Robt. Laurie, he was for some time employed in