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Rh Pellett Green and Chas. Marsh Schomberg, successive flag-ship of Vice-Admirals Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle and Sir Graham Moore in the Mediterranean; where, in June, 1821, and Oct. 1822, he was lent, as Midshipman, for a few months, to the 20, Capt. Robt. Tait, and 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford. He left the in Oct. 1823; and, after having intermediately served on board the  10, Capt. Rich. Anderson, and 18, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, he was advanced, 16 March, 1824, to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 17 April, 1824, to the 28, Capt. Fred. Hunn, with whom he sailed for South America – 25 Aug. following, as Senior, to the 18, commanded on that station by Capt. Thos. Bourchier – 13 June, 1827 (having been on half-pay since July, 1825), to the 10, Capt. Geo. Wm. Courtenay, fitting for the West Indies – and, 6 June, 1828, to the 84, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean. Being awarded a second promotal commission, dated 17 Sept. 1828, he successively assumed command, also on the Mediterranean station – 31 Oct. following, of the 10 – 30 Nov. 1829, of the  10 – in May, 1830, as Acting-Captain, of the  28 – and in Nov. 1830, in a similar capacity, of the  46. On the paying off of the latter ship he was confirmed in his present rank 24 May, 1831. His next and last appointment was, 22 Feb. 1843, to the 24, in which vessel he served on the S.E. coast of America, until superseded in Jan. 1846.

Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley married, 10 June, 1826, Jane Matilda Lilly, eldest daughter of the Rev. Montagu John Wynyard, rector of Wesh Rounton, and of St. Martin’s, Micklegate, Yorkshire, by whom he has issue seven sons and two daughters. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 PATERSON. 

entered the Navy 17 June, 1828; passed his examination in 1834; served for some time in the Mediterranean as Mate of the 120, flag-ship of Sir John Acworth Ommanney; and was advanced to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841. He was next, 7 Jan. 1842, appointed to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and from 16 May, 1843, until paid off on his return to England at the close of 1847, was employed in the Pacific on board the 42, Capt. Jas. Alex. Duntze. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 PATERSON. 

was born 17 March, 1781, at Doneraile, co. Cork. His brother, Thos. Paterson, Master’s Mate of H.M.S., was killed in a boat affair in the Gulf of Venice 4 June, 1804, aged 21.

This officer entered the Navy, 6 Oct. 1796, as a Volunteer, on board the 32, Capts. Rich. Bowen and Wm. Hall Gage. On 13 of the same month he assisted at the capture, off the port of Carthagena, of the Mahonesa Spanish frigate of 34 guns and 275 men, after a spirited contest of an hour and 20 minutes, in which the enemy sustained a loss of 30 men killed and as many wounded, and the British, out of 182 men, of only 4 wounded; and on 13 of the ensuing Dec. he was present, off Cadiz, in another most determined action of an hour and forty minutes, which terminated in the surrender to the (whose loss on the occasion amounted, out of 166 men, to 4 killed and 18 wounded) of the French frigate La Vestale of 36 guns and at least 270 men, 30 of whom were killed and 37 wounded. In the summer of 1797 we find Mr. Paterson co-operating in the bombardment of Cadiz, and employed, as Midshipman, in the ’s barge. In Lord Nelson’s attack upon Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, where Capt. Bowen was killed. Quitting the in Jan. 1800, he served, during the five following years, chiefly on the Home station, in the  32, Capt. John Gore,  74, Capt. Davidge Gould,  18, Capts. Walter Grosett and Ralph Neville, and 74, Capts. Thos. Byam Martin and John Erskine Douglas. He was then, in Jan. and Sept. 1805, and July, 1806, successively nominated Sub-Lieutenant of the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Wilbraham,, Capt. John Pengelly, and gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Skinner; on leaving the latter of which vessels he was constituted, 6 Sept. 1806 (although the date of his commission was subsequently altered to 20 Jan. 1809), full Lieutenant of the  18, Capt. John Lake. Becoming attached next, 6 Feb. 1807, to the 20, Capts. Thos. Fras. Chas. Mainwaring and John Pasco, Mr. Paterson accompanied in that vessel the expedition sent in the course of the same year against Copenhagen; and on 25 April, 1808, he assisted in her boats, with those of the 20, commanded by Lieut. Wm. Elliott, at the cutting-out, with a loss to the British of only 5 persons wounded, of a convoy of 10 deeply-laden vessels, moored close under the foot of a castle mounting 10 guns, in the harbour of Fladstrand, near the Skawe, defended also by a heavy fire from another battery, as well as from the crews of the vessels assembled on the beach, and made fast to the shore by hawsers. With the exception of a short command, held between June and Nov. 1811, of the schooner, at Halifax, he continued employed in the, on the American, West India, and Cork stations, until May, 1815. Not having been since afloat, he accepted his present rank 3 Feb. 1847.

Commander Paterson married, 9 April, 1811, Miss Priscilla Blight, of Plymouth.

 PATESHALL. 

, born 13 Sept. 1782, is fourth son of the late Edm. Pateshall, Esq., of Allensmore House, co. Hereford, by Ann, daughter and heiress of Wm. Burnam, Esq., of Wellington Court, in the same co.; and brother of Capt. Edwyn Sandys Pateshall, Hon.E.I.Co.’s service, who died at Ceylon in 1819.

This officer entered the Navy, in Aug. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, with whom he continued to serve, in the same frigate and in the 78, on the Home and Mediterranean stations, until June, 1801, the greater part of the time as Midshipman and Master’s Mate. In the former ship he assisted, in April, 1796, at the capture of a fleet of French merchantmen, the destruction of La Volage of 26, and the further capture of L’Unité of 38 guns and 255 men, and, after a chase of 15 hours and a close action of an hour and 45 minutes, of La Virginie of 44 guns and 340 men. He was also, on 13 Jan. 1797, present, in company with the 36, in a very gallant engagement of 10 hours, which terminated in the destruction, with a loss to the  of 19 men wounded, of the French 74-gun ship Les Droits de L’Homme. The formed part, in June and Aug. 1800, of the expeditions to Quiberon and Ferrol. At Quiberon, where he was wounded in blowing up a battery, Mr. Pateshall was actively employed with the boats of the squadron, and at Ferrol he landed with the naval brigade. During the term of his attachment to the and  he contributed to the capture and destruction, including the vessels already mentioned, of as many as 20 ships of war, carrying in the whole, we are informed, 468 guns and 3937 men. In June and Sept. 1801 we find him successively joining the 74, Capt. Wm. Henry Jervis, and 110; of which