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Rh first-cousin of the present ; and brother-in-law of the late Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, K.C.B.

This officer entered the Navy, in Oct. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the 74, Capt. John Irwin, lying at Portsmouth. Becoming attached, shortly afterwards, to the 74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edw. Rotheram, he fought as Midshipman of that ship in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. At the commencement of 1806 he joined the 40, Capt. John Wentworth Loring, in time, we believe, to assist at the capture of Le Néarque corvette of 16 guns. After a servitude of 12 months on the Jamaica station in the 64, Capt. Wm. Pryce Cumby, he wag nominated, 25 Oct. 1810, Acting-Lieutenant of the 36, Capt. Jas. Giles Vashon; to which ship the Admiralty confirmed him 1 Feb. 1811. Invaliding home in the ensuing Oct., he was next in succession appointed – 16 March, 1812, to the 44, Capt. Clotworthy Upton, on the Irish station – in the early part of 1813, to the  and, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Edw. Jas. Foote at Portsmouth – and, 24 Aug. in the same year, to the 36, Capt. John Eveleigh. In the latter ship he shared, we understand, in a yard-arm-and-yard-arm conflict of upwards of an hour with the French 40-gun frigate Etoile, which terminated in a drawn battle, wherein the British lost 9, including their Captain, killed, and 37 wounded, and the enemy 20 killed and 30 wounded. On leaving the in Sept. 1814 he took up a Commander’s commission bearing date 6 Dec. 1813. He subsequently, from 6 Sept. 1815 until 22 Oct. 1818, commanded the 12, on the Plymouth station, and on 12 Aug. 1819 was advanced to the rank of Captain. His last appointments were – 28 Nov. 1823, to the 28, fitting for the West Indies – and, 16 Sept. 1825, to the  50, bearing the flag of Sir Lawrence Wm. Halsted at Jamaica, whence he returned in 1827. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846. – Pettet and Newton.

 PATTON. 

, born in 1791, is son of the late Retired Captain Chas. Patton, R.N.; and first-cousin of

This officer entered the Navy, 1 Feb. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 64, Capt. John Wentworth Loring, bearing the flag in the Downs of his uncle Vice-Admiral Philip Patton. In the following June he removed as Midshipman to the 74, Capt. John Irwin, lying at Portsmouth; and on being received, next, into the  74, Capts. John Loring, John Cooke, and Edw. Rotheram, he was afforded an opportunity of participating, 21 Oct. 1805, in the battle of Trafalgar. After having served for three years and nine months in the 40, commanded by his old Captain, J. W. Loring, under whom, during that period, he had assisted at the capture of Le Néarque corvette of 16 guns, he became Master’s Mate, in Nov. 1809, of the  64, Capts. Wm. Pryce Cumby and Thos. Graves, of which ship, stationed at Jamaica, he was nominated, 26 Aug. 1810, an Acting-Lieutenant. He was confirmed 13 Nov. following, and was subsequently appointed – 26 April, 1811, for five months, to the Dispatch sloop, Capt. Jas. Aberdour, also in the West Indies – 29 July, 1812, to the 18, Capt. Wm. Westcott Daniel, successively employed in the Channel, the West Indies, and North America – and, in April, 1813, and Nov. 1814, to the 40 and  38, Capts. Thos. Brown and Clotworthy Upton, both on the station last named, where he performed, in both ships, the duties of First-Lieutenant. Attaining the rank of Commander 13 June, 1815, he served in that capacity from 3 May, 1826, until posted, 30 April, 1827, in the 18, on the Cork station. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted the Retirement in 1847.

Capt. Patton was presented with the honorary medallion of the Royal Humane Society 13 April 1826.

 PATTON. 

entered the Navy, in Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capts. John Davies and Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, under the latter of whom, in the same vessel and the 36, he saw a great deal of active service. He was present in the in particular at the capture of Ile de Bourbon in July, 1810; also when she compelled the enemy’s sloop Victor to surrender, and exchanged broadsides with the 40-gun frigate Minerve; and again during a series of unhappy although heroic operations, which, by 28 Aug. 1810, terminated in the self-destruction, in Port Sud-Est, Isle of France, of the, and the capture by a French squadron of the  and  – the former after being reduced to a mere wreck, and incurring a loss of nearly her whole crew. On the reduction of the Mauritius in the following Dec. Mr. Patton was sent home in the frigate, Capt. Robt. Tom Blackler. On his arrival he successively joined the tender, Lieut.-Commander John Turner, lying at Swansea, and the  112, commanded at Plymouth by Capt. John Nash. He attained the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1812. His last appointments were – 11 July and 3 Aug. following, to the and  sloops, Capts. Lewis Hole and Alex. Kennedy, on the Home station – 21 April, 1813, to the 74, Capt. Rich. Harrison Pearson, in the West Indies – and, 26 Oct. 1814, to the 10, Capt. Dowell O’Reilly, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Aug. 1815.

 PAUL. 

was born 11 Jan. 1811, and died 18 Aug. 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 Jan. 1824, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 26, Capt. Jas. John Gordon Bremer, under whom he witnessed the establishment of a colony on Melville Island, Australia. In Sept. 1825 he removed to the 50, bearing the broad pendant in the East Indies of Commodore Thos. Coe; and in June, 1826, five months after he had left the latter ship, he became Midshipman of the 104, Capt. Chas. Inglis lying at Portsmouth. Joining next, in April, 1827, the 42, Capt. Thos. Fellowes, he served for nearly three years in that ship on the Mediterranean station, where it was his fortune to act a part in the battle of Navarin. In Oct. 1830 Mr. Paul, at that time in the 120, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, passed his examination. He was subsequently employed on the Mediterranean, African, South American, Lisbon, and East India stations, as Mate, in the 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, 3, Lieut.-Commander Henry Vere Huntley,  18, Capt. Chas. Eden, 50, Capts. Wm. David Puget and Geo. Wickens Willes, 74, Capt. Alex. Ronton Sharpe, and 28, Capt. Sir J. J. G. Bremer. While in the latter ship, in which he served from Sept 1837 until Jan. 1840, he was present at the formation of a colony at Port Essington, and was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 28 June 1838. On quitting her he removed to the 72, on board which ship Sir Gordon Bremer (to whom, in the following June, he became