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812 frozen up in Jan. 1809 at Gottenborg (whence the was only extricated by a canal being cut through four miles of ice), and in the following Aug. co-operated in the attack upon Flushing. After a servitude of rather more than five months and a half at Spithead in the 74, Capt. Robt. Hall, he became Midshipman, in April, 1810, of the 36, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby; which frigate, at noon on 8 Sept. 1812, was caught in a typhoon in the China Sea, and before midnight was left with nothing standing but her foremast and bowsprit. On his return to England with Capt. Digby in the 74, Mr. Newnbam, in Oct. 1814, joined the  brig, Capt. Augustus Baldwin, stationed in the Channel. He was next received on board the 74 and  50, the latter bearing the flag of Sir K. G. Keats at Newfoundland; where, in the course of 1815, on 1 Jan. in which year he had been awarded a commission, he was appointed a Lieutenant of the  18, Capt. Wm. Kempthome: From 12 Dec. ensuing until paid off, 17 April, 1819, he again served in the East Indies on board the 24, Capts. Hew Steuart and Wm. Hill. His last appointments were – 2 June, 1824, to the Coast Blockade, in which he was for some time employed as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, and 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 22 Jan. 1827, as Senior, to the 28, Capt. Wm. Pitt Canning, on the Halifax station – 5 March following, to the charge, for five years, of the Signal station on Kingston Hill – and, 12 Jan. 1835, to the command (which he retained until the commencement of 1841) of a station in the Coast Guard. In 1840 he received a Silver Medal from the Shipwreck Society, and the thanks of the Royal Humane Society, for his exertions in saving the crews of three vessels wrecked on the beach between Bearshide and Black Rock, co. Cornwall.

Lieut. Newnham is Senior of 1815. He married, 8 June, 1819, Mary, youngest daughter of Dr. Cooke, of Gower Street, Bedford Square, London. – Messrs. Chard.

 NEWTON. 

was born in 1799.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 March, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, in which ship, during a servitude of seven months and a half, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, he was employed at the blockade of Flushing, the Texel, and Cherbourg, and in cruizing among the Western Islands. Joining next, in Dec. 1813, the 38, Capt. Peter Rainier, he visited the Cape of Good Hope, the Brazils, and coast of Africa, and, among other vessels, assisted, in company with the  36, at the capture of the French 40-gun frigate Cérès, off the Cape de Verde Islands, 6 Jan. 1814. In Sept. 1815 he removed to the 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, at Portsmouth; and he subsequently, between March, 1816, and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 4 May, 1821, served, on the Home station, in the 16, Capt. Robt. Lisle Coulson, and 20 and  40, both commanded by Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. His commission was presented to him at the instance of the Commander-in-Chief at Chatham, as a reward for his conduct in having, on 21 of the preceding Feb., attacked, with the present Lieut. Edw. Digby, an overwhelming body of armed smugglers at Brookland, in Kent, and captured two of the principal among them, one of whom was executed. In the course of the same year Mr. Newton, who had been wounded, was presented with a sword by the committee at Lloyd’s for saving the crew of a vessel wrecked on Dungeness beach. His appointments as Lieutenant were – 22 Sept. 1821, to the 10, Capts. Edw. Stewart and Adolphus FitzClarence, on the Home Station – 12 April, 1824, for a few months, to the bomb, Capt. Robt. Heriott Barclay, part of the time under Sir Harry Burrard Neale, in his demonstration before Algiers, where he had charge of a rocket-boat – 10 April, 1826, to the 120, successive flag-ship of Sir Robt. Moorsom and Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, at Chatham – 11 May, 1832 (two years after he had left the ), and 12 July, 1833, as a Supernumerary, to the 76, Capt. Robt. Tait (flag-ship for some time of Sir Michael Seymour), and 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, both in South America – and, 25 Feb. 1834, to the 28, Capt. Michael Seymour, on the same station, whence he returned in 1835. He attained his present rank 28 June, 1838, and was afterwards employed, from 4 July, 1839, until the summer of 1844, in the Coast Guard; and from 14 Dec. in the latter year until paid off in July, 1847, in command of the 16, on the coast of Africa.

Commander Newton married, in 1830, the only daughter of D. H. Day, Esq., of Wilmington Hall, co. Kent, by whom he has issue two children.

 NEWTON. 

died 29 July, 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 15 June, 1805, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Irwin, lying at Spithead. Removing, as Fst.-cl. Vol., in July, 1807, to the Horatio of 46 guns and 270 men, Capt. Geo. Scott, he visited Quebec and Halifax, and then proceeded to the West Indies, where, in company with the 38, and  and  sloops, he assisted at the capture, 10 Feb. 1809, of La Junon French frigate, of 46 guns and 323 men, after a close and sanguinary action of three hours, attended with a loss to the  of 7 killed and, to her antagonist of 130 killed and wounded. On 21 Feb. 1810, having attained the rating of Midshipman, he further aided in making prize, at the close of a long chase, and of a running fight of one hour, of La Nécessité, pierced for 40 guns, but not mounting more than 28, with a complement on board of 186 men, and laden with naval stores and provisions from Brest, bound to the Isle of France. Between the following Oct. and June, 1815, he was cmployed on the Home, Baltic, West India, and North American stations, in the 32, Capt. John Chas. Woolcombe, 28, Capt. Wm. Rogers, 18, Capt. David Sloane, and  74 and  80, flag-ships of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, whom he accompanied in the expedition against New Orleans. On leaving the, as above, he took up a commission bearing date 2 March, 1815. His last appointment was, 3 Sept. 1818, to the 18, Capt. Chas. Hope Reid, in which vessel he served for about three years on the Leith station.

 NEWTON. 

entered the Navy, 28 Nov. 1803, as A.B., on board the 98, Capts. Wm. O’Brien Drury, Sir Thos. Williams, and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, in which ship he served in the Channel, at the blockade of Cadiz, and at Trafalgar. From Feb. 1806 until Feb. 1812 we find him employed as A.B., Quartermaster, and Midshipman, in the 98, Capts. Wm. Lechmere and Sam. Hood Linzee (flag-ship for some time of Rear-Admiral Thos. Sotheby), on the Baltic and Channel stations. He then joined the 98, Capt. Robt. Plampin, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where he shared in a partial action fought 13 Feb. 1814 with the Toulon fleet; and in June, 1815, after having served a short time as Mate, again in the Channel, of the, Lieut.-Commander Crosby, and for seven months on the Cork station as Second-Master of the 12, Capt. Jas. Leach, he took up a commission dated 3 Feb in that year. He has since been on half-pay. – Holmes and Folkord.

