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872 latter ship, bearing the flag in the Channel of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, he was created a Lieutenant 20 Nov. in the same year. His succeeding appointments were – 6 Nov. 1802 (after six months of half-pay) to the 50, Capt. Dan. WoodrifF, with whom he visited Botany Bay, and circumnavigated the globe – 6 Sept. 1804, again to the, still bearing the flag of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis – 12 June, 1806, as Senior, to the 74, Capt. Thos. Rogers, under whom, during a servitude of three years and nine months, he was frequently employed in the cutting-out of convoys in the Mediterranean – in Nov. 1809, to the 36, Capt. Thos. Chas. Brodie, in which ship he proceeded to the West Indies – 2 March, 1810, to the  18, Capt. Thos. Graves, on that station – and, 8 July following, to the 64, as Flag-Lieutenant at Jamaica to Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley. On 24 July, 1811, he was advanced to the command of the sloop; from which vessel, in the ensuing Oct., he was transferred to the Acting-Captaincy of the, then bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Jas. Giles Vashon. Returning to England in the course of the following month, he was subsequently, 7 Oct. 1813 and 7 June, 1814, appointed to the 12 and  16, stationed chiefly on the coast of Korth America; where he was made Post, 18 Feb. 1815, into the  20. He paid that ship off, on her arrival home from the West Indies, in Aug. 1816; and did not afterwards go afloat. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Pateshall, we understand, has filled the office of Mayor of Hereford.

 PATEY. 

, born 31 Dec. 1770, is brother of

This officer entered the Navy, in 1779, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 98, Capt. Geo. Ourry, stationed in the Channel; where, in 1781, he joined the 64, Capt. Wm. Truscott. Becoming attached, next, to the 74, Capts. Sir Jas. Wallace and John Symonds, he served in that ship in Rodney’s actions of 9 and 12 April, 1782, and was present in her at the ensuing capture, by Sir Sam. Hood, of the Caton, Jason, &c., in the Mona Passage. Paid off at the peace in 1783, he did not go afloat until 1785; between which period and the date of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 22 Nov. 1790, we find him alternately employed, at Plymouth, in the 64 and  74, under Capts. Sam. Reeve, Robt. Fanshawe, Chas. Morice Pole, Anthony Jas. Pye Molloy, and John Thos. Duckworth- His succeeding appointments were – 6 Sept. 1791, to the 74, Capt. John Ford, lying at the port last mentioned – 22 Dec. 1792, to the  74, Capts. Skeffington Lutwidge, Geo. Campbell, and Sir Rich. Hussey Bickerton – 27 Sept. 1797, to the 64, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Lutwidge at the Nore – 29 June, 1798, to the command of the  cutter of 14 guns, employed, until Dec. 1800, on the Home and West India stations – and, in May, 1801, to the Semaphore service, in which he continued (with the exception of an interval between March, 1802, and May, 1803) until Nov. 1814. In 1793 Lieutenant Patey, then belonging to the, was present at the occupation and evacuation of Toulon; on the latter of which occasions he very narrowly escaped destruction, the boat he commanded being blown to pieces. He afterwards took part, in the same ship, in the reduction of Bastia and Calvi; and also in Hotham’s partial engagements of 14 March and 13 July, 1795. During his command of the he fought an action of two hours with a French cutter, whom he at length compelled to take refuge in the port of Cherbourg. In the same vessel he captured, 19 Nov. 1798, after a chase of four hours, the French privateer lugger Enterprise, mounting two swivels, with muskets, pistols, swords, halt-pikes, &c., and carrying 16 men. The British on this occasion sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 2 wounded. From Jan. 1820 until 1830 Commander Patey (who was advanced to his present rank 20 July, 1825) officiated as a chief officer in the Coast Guard.

One of his sons,, is a Captain, and another, , in the R.N.

 PATEY. 

is son of Retired Commander Chas. Patey R.N.

This officer entered the Navy 20 Jan. 1824; passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his first commission 6 Dec. 1836. His succeeding appointments were – 6 May and 16 Aug. 1837, to the 120 and  104, flagships in the Mediterranean of Sir Josias Rowley and Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – and, 22 Feb. 1840, as First-Lieutenant, to the 36, Capt. Edw. Collier. Uniting, in the latter ship, in the operations on the coast of Syria, he found opportunity of highly distinguishing himself by his officer-like, cool, and steady conduct, at the capture both of Caiffa and Tsour. On the fall of Caiffa he planted the Ottoman flag upon the ramparts; and in a day or two afterwards, with the marines and a few seamen belonging to the and  under his orders, destroyed a castle mounting 5 guns, in full view of 500 of the Egyptian army. At Tsour, as soon as the enemy had been put to flight, he landed and took possession of the town; in the immediate vicinity of which he contrived, although in the presence of 800 infantry and 60 cavalry, to get into his possession 40 prisoners and deserters. On 4 Nov. 1840, the day after the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, he was advanced to the rank of Commander. He served next, from 5 March, 1842, until posted, 27 June, 1846, in the 42, troop-ship; and is now on half-pay.

 PATEY. 

, born in 1789, is only son of Lieut. Wm. Patey R.N., who lost his life while employed in embarking troops on the coast of Spain in 1810; and nephew of Two other uncles died Lieutenants in the service.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 April, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. John Sutton, Geo. Duff, Wm. Hennah, and Robt. Dudley Oliver, stationed at first off Brest and then off the port of Cadiz. After sharing as Midshipman and Aide-de-Camp to Capts. Duff and Hennah in the battle of Trafalgar, he removed, in Jan. 1806, to the 36, Capt. Jas. Carthew; under whom he was for two years employed, chiefly at the blockade of the Texel. He then proceeded to the Mediterranean, where, in the 74, he was for a further period of three years engaged in watching the port of Toulon. In April, 1811, and March, 1812, Mr. Patey became in succession Master’s Mate of the and  74’s, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Dixon in the Baltic and South America. He was confirmed to the rank of Lieutenant, after having twice acted in that capacity, 20 July, 1813; and from the latter date until Feb. 1815 was employed, on the station last named, in the Nereds 36, Capt. Manley Hall Dixon, and 18, Capt. Joseph Patey. In the he assisted, as First-Lieutenant, in chasing into St. Salvador, and in there detaining, a notorious American privateer, the True-Blooded Yankee, of equal force. In 1831 he was appointed Senior of the 42, Capt. M. H. Dixon; but a nearly fatal illness deprived him of the possibility of joining. He has not been since able to procure employment. We are told that during the war Lieut. Patey was