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Rh Chief in North America and the West Indies, where he is now employed on Surveying-service.

 PALMER. 

passed his examination 7 Oct. 1840; and between that date and the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 23 Jan. 1843, was employed in the East Indies, and China, as Mate, on board the 44, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, and 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, who noticed him as having served in the boats which covered the assault on the town of Chin-Kiang-Foo 21 July, 1842. On leaving the he joined the  16, Capt. Wm. Nevill, also in the East Indies, where, in Sept. 1843, he removed to the 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads. His appointments since his return to England in the summer of 1845 have been, on the Mediterranean station – 1 Dec. in that year to the 104, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker – 24 Dec. 1846, to the steam-vessel of 430 horsepower, Capt. John Kobb – and, 26 Oct. 1847, to the Acting-command, which he yet retains, of the  12.

 PALMER. 

, born 9 April, 1789, at Monkwearmouth, co. Durham, is son of Mr. Wm. Palmer, shipowner, of that place.

This officer entered the Navy, 12 Nov. 1804, as A.B., on board the 36, Capt. Edw. Stirling Dickson, flag-ship for some time of Sir Edm. Nagle and Sir Jas. Saumarez on the coast of France. On his removal, as Master’s Mate, in April, 1808, to the 38, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, he sailed for the Mediterranean, where he was for nearly two years very actively employed, and assisted, in the course of 1809, at the capture of Le Var of 26 guns, laden with corn for the relief of the French garrison at Corfu, and at the reduction of the islands of Zante, Cephalonia, and Cerigo. Returning in the spring of 1810 to England in the 74, Capt. Edw. Griffith, he joined the 100; in which ship, besides being for a long time stationed in the Baltic under the flag of Sir Jas. Saumarez, he escorted a body of troops sent in 1811 to the coast of Portugal under Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke. After serving for a few months off Cherbourg in the 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, and again in the Baltic on borad the 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Geo. Hope, Mr. Palmer was promoted, 17 Aug. 1813, to a Lieutenancy in the 10, Capts. Wm. Hill and Robt. Julyan; under the former of whom we find him present, in Feb. 1814, at the celebrated passage of the flotilla under Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose across the bar of the Adour; on which occasion he had the good fortune to save the lives of two persons, whose boat had capsized. His last appointment was, 17 Dec. 1814, to the 38, Capt. Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, with whom he served in the Mediterranean until the summer of 1816. On 15 July, 1815, while engaged in the ’s pinnace in an attempt to capture a French vessel of very superior force at Campo, in the island of Elba, he was wounded by a musket-ball, which entered his right side above the hip-joint, and has never been extracted. He was at the same time made prisoner, hut shortly afterwards exchanged.

Lieut. Palmer married, in 1830, Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Mr. Kingswood Greenwell, shipowner, and grand-daughter of the late Dr. Greenwell, of Scot’s House. He was left a widower, with one daughter, in Jan. 1844.

 PALMES. 

is third son of Geo. Palmes, Esq., of Naburn, co. York, by Margaret Isabella, daughter of Wm. Lindsay, Esq., of Oatlands, near Glasgow. His eldest brother, Bryan, a Captain in the 57th light infantry, died at Barbadoes in 1839.

This officer entered the Navy 2 Dec. 1830; passed his examination 10 Nov. 1838; served for some time at Portsmouth, as Mate, in the 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, while in the yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarenoe, 7 March, 1842. His succeeding appointments were – 29 March, 1842, to the 84, Capt. Dan. Pring, employed, until the close of 1843, in the Mediterranean and on particular service – 11 Dec. 1844, as Additional, to the steam-sloop, Capt. Horatio Beauman Young, on the coast of Africa – 2 April, 1845, to the  steam-frigate, Commodore Wm. Jones, on the same station, whence he returned towards the close of the year – 31 March, 1846, to the 24, troop-ship, Capt. John Kingcome – and, 30 April, 1847, for a few months, to the  120, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, fitting at Portsmouth. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 PANTON. 

, born 31 Oct. 1795, is second son of Jones Panton, Esq., of PlusgurmPlas Gwyn [sic], co. Anglesey.

This officer entered the Navy, 19 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capt. Geo. Mundy; and on being lent, after cruizing for some time in the Mediterranean, to the 80, flagship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Louis, fought in the action off 6 Feb. 1806. On finally leaving the, of which ship he had been created a Midshipman in April, 1807, he joined, in Oct. 1810, the 44, bearing the flag at Jersey of Vice-Admiral D’Auvergne. In March and July, 1811, he was successively nominated Acting-Lieutenant and Master’s Mate of the 74, and  32, Capts. Matthew Henry Scott and Lord Jas. Townshend; and on 7 Feb. 1812, at which period he was again acting as Lieutenant in the sloop, Capt. David Scott, he was officially advanced to the rank he now holds. His last appointments were – on 25 of the month last mentioned, to the 18, Capt. John Thompson, under whom he was wrecked in Port Royal, Jamaica, 22 Aug. 1813 – 2 Sept. following, to the  74, Capt. Robt. Lloyd, which ship he left in Jan. 1814 – and, 5 June, 1818, to the 20, Capt. Geo. Rich. Pechell, fitting for the Halifax station, whence he returned in 1821.

Lieut. Panton married 3 Oct. 1326, and has issue. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 PARDOE. 

entered the Navy, 15 July, 1790, as A.B., on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, lying at Chatham; where, in the following Nov., he attained the rating of Midshipman. After a servitude of two years in the, , and cutters, Lieut.-Commanders Henry Gunter, Henry Inman, and Digby Dent, he became successively attached, in the early part of 1798, to the  and  98’s, both commanded by Capt. Hancock Kelly, and, as Master’s Mate, to the  74, Capt. Hon. G. C. Berkeley. While participating, in the latter ship, in the glories of 1 June, 1794, he had the misfortune to have his skull fractured, his nose materially injured, and several parts of his body contused. The effects he still feels. In March, 1795, he followed Capt. Berkeley into the 98, commanded next by Capt. Geo. Murray; and on leaving that ship in Feb. 1797 he joined the 100, flag-ship of Lord Bridport, and  98, Capt. Geo. Brine. On being advanced, 12 April following, to the rank of Lieutenant, he was appointed First of the 44, armée en flûte, Capt. Thos. Manby, and was for some time employed in the Channel and on the coast of Ireland. His last appointments were 29 Nov. 1798, to the command (which he retained until 14 June, 1802) of the gun-brig, attached to the force in the Channel – 20 July, 1803,