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Rh Beauman, 64, Capt. Wm. Keat, and Monmouth 64, Capts. Hyde Parker and Wm. Wilkinson. In the course of 1814 he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the brig, Capt. Geo. Barne Trollope, Midshipman of his former ship the, Acting-Lieutenant and Commander of the cutter, and Master’s Mate of the  98, Capts. Chas. Adam and John Wentworth Loring. In the he was sent by H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence to Calais with despatches, and was employed by Rear-Admiral Foley in escorting convoys from Deal to St. Helen’s. In the, after conveying Marshal Blücher from Boulogne to England, and taking part in the grand naval review held at Spithead, he proceeded to Bordeaux for the purpose of bringing home the first and second battalions of the German Legion. While attached, in the early part of 1815, to the 74, Capt. Henry Bazely, he cruized among the Western Islands, in company with the  74 and  20, in quest of two American frigates. He took up in April of that year a commission bearing date 7 of the preceding Feb., and, since 12 May, 1837, has been employed in command of a station in the Coast Guard. – J. Chippendale.

 PAKENHAM. 

, born 18 Oct. 1790, is fourth son of the late Admiral Hon. Sir Thos. Pakenham, G.C.B. (second son of the first Lord Longford), by Louisa, daughter of the Right Hon. John Staples; and brother (with Lieut. Henry Pakenham, R.N. (1827), who died in April, 1839) of the present Edw. Michael Conolly, Esq., D.C.L., Captain R.A., and M.P. for Donegal. Capt. Pakenham is first-cousin of the gallant Major-General Hon. Sir Edw. Michael Pakenham, G.C.B., who fell at New Orleans 8 Jan. 1815; of Lieut.-General Hon. Sir Hercules Robt. Pakenham, K.C.B., a distinguished Peninsular officer; of Capt. Hon. Wm. Pakenham, R.N., who was lost in the frigate in 1811; and of the late Duchess of Wellington.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 April, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday, under the former of whom he took part, as Midshipman, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, 22 July, 1805, and accompanied the expeditions of 1807 and 9 to the Dardanells and the Scheldt. In the course of 1810, after a short servitude in the Mediterranean on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, he was nominated, on that station, Acting-Lieutenant of the  110, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle. In Oct. of the same year he went back, in a similar capacity, to the, still commanded by Capt. Blackwood, although subsequently by Capt. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker. While in that ship, to which he was confirmed by commission bearing date 16 July, 1811, we find him participating in a very gallant skirmish, in which the British, with a slender force, beat back a powerful division of the French Toulon fleet. In Aug. 1812 Mr. Pakenham joined the 36, Capt. Hon. Wm. Gordon; and on 15 June, 1814, after having witnessed the fall of St. Sebastian, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. His next appointment was, 21 June, 1815, to the 10, which vessel, on her arrival in the West Indies, was unfortunately lost near Tampico Bar, 16 Nov. 1816. From the latter date Capt. Pakenham did not again go afloat until invested, 16 Aug. 1825, with the command of the 18, on the Cork station. He acquired his present rank 26 Aug. 1826; and on 1 Oct. 1846 he accepted the retirement.

He married, 3 Nov. 1817, Caroline Emily, third daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B., by whom (who died 2 Aug. 1844) he had issue a son and three daughters. – Hallett and Robinson.

 PAKENHAM. 

, born 3 March, 1820, is third son of the late Earl of Longford, by Georgiana Emma Charlotte, daughter of William, first Earl of Beauchamp. His eldest brother, the present Earl of Longford, is an officer in the Second Life Guards; and three other of his brothers are also in the army.

This officer entered the Navy, from the Royal Naval College, 14 April, 1835; passed his examination 2 May, 1840;. was for some time attached, as Mate, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and, after a servitude of nearly three years in that capacity on board the 50, Capts. Lord John Hay and Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, on the North America and West India and Mediterranean stations, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 10 June, 1844. His appointments have since been – 9 Sept. 1844, to the 12, Capt. Rich. Borough Crawford, at the Cape of Good Hope – and, 2 Sept. 1845, to the 50,. flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres, on the same station, where he is now employed.

 PALK. 

died 12 May, 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the store-ship, Capts. Rich. Hill and Jas. Harrison. On his arrival at Gibraltar, after having visited the West Indies, he removed, in May, 1795, to the, another store-ship, commanded by Capt. Edw. Rotheram. Becoming Midshipman, in the following July, of the 64, Capts. Rich. Rundell Burgess and Thos. Bertie, he fought in that vessel in the action off, 11 Oct. 1797, and, besides accompanying the expedition of 1799 to Holland, was present, 2 April, 1801, in the-attack made on the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen, After a servitude of a few weeks on board the and  98’s, flag-ships of Sir Hyde Parker and Lord Nelson, he was made Lieutenant, 23 June, 1801, into the  74, Capt. Thos. Bertie. His succeeding appointments were – 16 Nov. 1802, to the 74, Capt. John Okes Hardy, part of the force employed at the reduction of Ste. Lucie in June, 1803 – 19 Dec. 1803, 24 Sept. 1804, and 12 May, 1806, as First, to the  and  sloops, and  38, Capts. John Shortland, Wm. Brooking Dolling, and Geo. McKinley, with whom he served until March, 1807, on the Home, African and Lisbon stations – and, 1 April, 1812, to the command of the cutter, in which vessel he cruized in the Downs and Channel; and assisted at the siege of St. Sebastian. He went on half-pay 5 Sept. 1814; and accepted the rank of Retired Coulmander 22 April, 1831.

 PALLISER. 

is son we believe, of Colonel Wray Palliser, of Derrylugkan, co. Tipperary.

This officer passed his examination 13 May 1845 and, after having served as Mate in the 