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Rh of 6 killed and 11 wounded. Removing, in Nov. 1793, to the 74, Capt. Rich. Rodney Bligh, he was on board that ship when captured, off Scilly, 6 Nov. 1794, after a glorious resistance of more than two hours, and a loss in killed and wounded of 40 men, by five French 74’s and three frigates under Rear-Admiral Nielly. On his release from French prison in Aug. 1795, he joined the 36, Capt. Stephen Geo. Church, and sailed for the Halifax station, where he witnessed, 28 Aug. 1796, the surrender of the French 36-gun frigate Elisabeth. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the, after having acted for four months as such, 8 Jan. 1799; and he was subsequently appointed – about 1801, to the 74, Capt. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, which ship was paid off on her return from the West Indies 15 July, 1802 – 22 Sept. 1803, to the  36, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner at Cork – 14 Dec. 1804 and 24 Aug. 1805, to the command of the  tender and  cutter, on the Home station – and (having left the latter vessel in Sept. 1816), 30 April, 1807, as Senior, to the  74, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett, in the Mediterranean. In the he assisted, in April, 1806, at the capture and destruction of a battery, of 3 long 36-pounders, with a garrison of 50 men, situated on Pointe d’Equillon, in the Pertuis Breton, and was highly commended by Lord Cochrane for his zeal on the occasion. He continued in the until Feb. 1811; he then took up a commission bearing date 21 of the preceding Oct.; and on 10 Sept. 1840 he accepted the rank of Captain on the Retired List.

We may add, that, when in the, Capt. Norton had been severely wounded by an explosion of powder while clearing for action. He married 16 Sept. 1803, and had issue one daughter.

 NORTON. 

, born in July, 1787, at Leatherhead, co. Surrey, is second son of the late John Norton, Esq., of Hurstperpoint, co. Sussex. His elder brother, John, a Lieutenant R.N., was lost on board the 74, during the disastrous winter of 1811.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Jan. 1798, as Third.-cl. Boy, on board the 18, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, in which vessel, when in company with the  brig, he assisted, in Aug. 1799, in taking possession, off the island of Gorée, of a fleet of merchantmen under the convoy of a Swedish frigate. He afterwards joined in the expedition against the Helder; and on 16 Sept. 1799 he contributed to the capture of Le Dragon, French lugger privateer, of 16 guns. In July, 1800, being at the time in the West Indies, he removed to the frigate, Capt. Thos. Harvey, under whom, in March, 1801, he was present, as Midshipman, at the reduction of the Danish and Swedish islands. The latter ship being paid off in April, 1802, he was next, from June, 1803, until Oct. 1807, employed off Harwich and on the Irish station in the 36, and  18, Capts. Woodley Losack and Jas. Andrew Worth. In the he aided in effecting the capture, 5 June, 1805, of the Santa Leocadia, Spanish privateer, pierced for 20 guns, mounting 14 nine-pounders, with a complement of 114 men. After serving nearly three months as Acting-Lieutenant in the 36, Capt. Adam Drummond, he was nominated, in Jan. 1808, Master’s Mate of, of 46 guns and 281 men, Capt. Edw. Brace; and on 19 May following he shared in that ship, and was mentioned for his conduct, in an obstinate conflict of an hour and a half, which terminated in the surrender, with a loss to the British of not more than 1 man killed and 2 wounded, of the Dutch frigate Guelderland, of 36 guns and 253 men, 25 of whom were slain and 50 wounded. Eight days after this exploit Mr. Norton, as a reward for his conduct, was again ordered to act as Lieutenant in the sloop, Capt. John Coode, and on 3 June in the same year his promotion was sanctioned by the Admiralty. Obtaining an appointment, 29 July ensuing, to the 74, commanded by the late Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, he witnessed, in April, 1809, the famous attack made by Lord Cochrane on the enemy’s shipping in Basque Roads, and, after enacting a part in the proximate operations in the Scheldt, sailed for the East Indies. On 6 Feb. 1812, having previously assisted at the conquest of the Mauritius and of the island of Java, he was appointed by Commodore Broughton to the command of the sloop, of 18 guns. After a servitude of nearly 23 months in that vessel, on the Indian station, he had the mortification, in Dec. 1813, to be superseded, without confirmation, and placed on half-pay. His last appointment was, 30 May, 1815, to the 74, Capt. John Halliday, with whom he cruized in the Channel until paid off in the following Aug. He accepted his present rank 9 March, 1846.

Commander Norton married, 4 March, 1841, Miss Ellen Barker. He has been residing for many years near Sydney, N.S.W. – Holmes and Folkard.

 NORWAY. 

was born on 20 April 1807. He is nephew maternally of

This officer entered the Navy, 18 May, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Geo. Harris. After a servitude of three years and a half in the West Indies, part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman, he joined, towards the close of 1826, the 120, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Moorsom at Chatham; and he was next, from July, 1827, until June, 1829 (in the course of which month he passed his examination), employed, chiefly on the Mediterranean station, in the 50, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, and 10, Capt. Smith. He then became Mate of the 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, lying at Portsmouth, as he subsequently did, in March, 1830, of the 84, Capts. Hyde Parker and Peter Richards, on the Lisbon station – in Oct. 1833, for a few weeks, of the 110, Capt. Gordon Thos. , at Plymouth – and, in Oct. 1837, of the 92, Capt. Hyde Parker, in the Mediterranean. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 28 June, 1838, he was successively appointed in that capacity, on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations – 18 Oct. 1838, to the 84, Capt. Barrington Reynolds – and, in 1839-40, to the  and  steamers, Capts. Anthony Wm. Milward and Robt. Fanshawe Stopford. In the latter vessel he was present throughout the operations on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He has been on half-pay since Dec. 1840.

He married, 15 June, 1843, Judith Catherine, only child of the late N. Cole, Esq., of Trebyan. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 NOTT. 

entered the Navy 17 June, 1815; passed his examination in 1821; and obtained his first commission 12 May, 1829. His succeeding appointments were – in the course of the latter year, to the 48, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, on the coast of Africa, whence he returned in 1830 – 16 Nov. 1832, to the Coast Guard, which service he left in the spring of 1 835, but rejoined 15 June, 1838 – 18 Aug. 1841, as Senior, to the 16, Capt. Wm. Smith (b), under whom he was for three years employed in the East Indies – and, 4 March, 1845, in a similar capacity, to the 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, attached to the force on the Home station. He attained his present rank 8 June, 1846; and, since 6 Feb. 1847, has been officiating as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard.

Commander Nott married, in Oct. 1829, at 