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Rh blockading the Dutch fleet in the Texel, and also in watching the invasion flotilla at Boulogne. On proceeding with intelligence of the war with Spain to Halifax, he was present in the latter ship when captured, 17 Feb. 1805, after a brilliant and self-sought action of nearly three hours, and a loss of 20 killed and 38 wounded, by La Ville de Milan, of 46 guns and 350 men, 10 of whom appear to have been slain. During the combat, although severely hurt by the wheel falling upon him, Mr. Newenham, on the ensign being shot away, ran aft and hoisted another at the mizen-top. He acted on the occasion as Aide-de-Camp to his Captain. On 23 of the same month the French ship, owing to the damage she had sustained, fell an easy capture, as did her prize, to the 50, Capt. John Talbot; and being added to the British Navy as the 38-gun frigate, was commissioned by Sir Robt. Laurie; under whom (with the exception of an interval in 1806 and Aug. 1807, partly spent in the sloop, Capt. Henry Gage Morris, on the coast of Ireland) Mr. Newenham continued to serve, still on the Halifax station, until nominated, 16 June, 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the  sloop, Capts. Geo. Wm. Blamey, Edw. Henry A’Court, and Henderson Bain. In that vessel, to which he was confirmed 23 July following, he co-operated for a time with the British army in the Tagus, and then proceeded to India, where he served on shore as her Senior-Lieutenant with a party of seamen at the reduction of Java in Aug. 1811. In consequence of an attack of dysentery, there contracted, he was compelled in the ensuing Dec, a few months after his removal to the 64, Capt. Henry Heathcote, to invalid home on board the  38, Capt. Scott. He arrived in England in March, 1812, and for four years was a martyr to the severity of his complaint. Although his health at the end of that period became re-established he did not succeed in obtaining further employment until 17 Aug. 1826, when, through the instrumentality of Sir Robt. Laurie, he was appointed to the Sussex Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and was stationed at Hastings. Continuing in that service until it was broken up in 1831, he repeatedly performed the duties of Divisional-Lieutenant, and came into frequent and severe contact with armed bodies of smugglers, from whom, during the last year, he wrested two cutters and a fishing-lugger, with cargoes on board of the value of at least 2000l. His next appointment was, 6 Nov. 1837, to the Coast Guard, in which he remained until obliged in 1842 to resign, after having been thrice sent to Haslar Hospital, and been for 15 weeks supplied with private medical aid, from the effects of contusion of the brain and of two other accidents in the head received in the execution of his duty. He has been employed, since 6 Sept. 1845, as Admiralty-Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel.

Lieut. Newenham married 7 March, 1826; and has issue a son and daughter. – Case and Loudonsack.

 NEWENHAM. 

entered the Navy 10 Sept. 1813; and in 1814-15 was present as Fst.-cl. Vol. of the 74, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, at the capture of the French 40-gun frigate La Sultane, and, while holding the same rating on board the  38, Capt. Hassard Stackpoole, in the operations against New Orleans. He afterwards, as Midshipman of the 20, Capt. Chas. Mitchell, enacted a part in the hostilities against Ava. He passed his examination 4 Dec. 1825; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 25 June, 1840; and acquired his present rank 23 Nov. 1841. He has been on half-pay since the commencement of 1842.

 NEWLAND. 

passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 2 March, 1838; and was subsequently appointed-in May of the same year, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford-15 Dec. following, to the 16, Capt. Wm. Tucker, on the African station, where he was superseded early in 1840-24 July, 1840, and 1 Jan. 1842, again as Additional, to the 50, Capt. Wm. Broughton, and 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Rich. Thomas, both in South America – and, 17 Jan. 1843, as Senior, to the steamer, of 280 horse-power, Capts. Wm. Maitland and Sir Wm. Hoste, fitting for the East Indies. During an expedition conducted, in July, 1846, by Sir Thos. John Cochrane, against the Sultan of Borneo, we find him, on 8 of that month, commanding a party of seamen at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries in the River Brune. he was employed under Capt. Geo. Rodney Mundy (whose thanks he obtained for his exertions) in ascending different branches of that stream and in marching, despite many impediments, into the interior of the country, again at the head of a body of seamen, in a fruitless attempt to gain possession of the Sultan’s person. He was promoted to his present rank on his return to England 30 July, 1847; and is now on half-pay. – J. Hinxman.

 NEWMAN. 

assisted, while Midshipman of the 74, Capts. Chas. Boyles and Rich. Lee, at the reduction of Ste. Lucie, in July, 1803, also in Sir Rich. John Strachan’s action with the four line-of-battle ships escaped from Trafalgar 4 Nov. 1805, and at the capture, 13 March, 1806, of the Marengo 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Foule. On becoming attached to the 74, successive flag-ship of Sir R. J. Strachan and Sir .John Borlase Warren, he accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren, and served in her boats at the capture of four privateers in the Chesapeake, and in the attack made in 1813 on Crany Island, Hampton, and other places. In charge, on one occasion, of a prize, he succeeded in taking a merchant-ship laden with valuable naval stores; and while serving in the Chesapeake in a tender he was wounded. In 1815, being then in the 36, Capt. Chas. John Austen, he again saw much boat-service against the pirates of the Grecian Archipelago; where, we believe, he was wrecked during a hurricane, 20 Feb. 1816. On 11 Dec. 1827, eleven years after he had passed his examination, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 19 Feb. 1830, to the Coast Blockade, in which service he continued, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot, until it was broken up in 1831 10 April, 1840, to the  110, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Fred. Warren and Sir Sam. Pym, Admiral-Superintendents at Plymouth, where he was superseded in May, 1843 – and, 7 Nov. in the latter year, to the command, which he still retains, of a station in the Coast Guard.

In July, 1846, Lieut. Newman received a Silver Medal from the Royal Humane Society as a reward for the manner in which he had risked his existence by throwing himself into the water to the rescue of others. He is married and has issue.

 NEWNHAM. 

entered the Navy, 15 Mav 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74 Capts Donald M‘Leod and Sam. Jackson. In that ship which bore the broad pendant and flag of the late Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, he accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807, went to the Mediterranean in pursuit of a French squadron which had effected its escape from Rochefort, assisted at the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish army under the Marquis de la Romana in Aug. 1808, was