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876 Flag-Lieutenant) had hoisted a broad pendant. He assisted in consequence at the capture of Chusan and of several batteries in the Canton river. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place 14 June, 1841.

 PAULET, Lord. 

, born 12 Aug. 1803, is third son of Chas. Ingoldsby, 13th Marquis of Winchester; brother of Lord Wm. Paulet, Lieut.-Colonel 68th Regt., and of Lord Fred. Paulet, an officer in the Coldstream Guards; and brother-in-law of, and Sir Chas. Des Voeux, Bart.

This officer entered the Royal Naval College 6 Feb. 1817; and embarked, 18 Dec. 1819, as Midshipman, on board the 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, stationed in the Channel. From Oct. 1820 until Jan. 1824 he served in the Mediterranean and again in the Channel in the 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, 18, Capt. Hon. Chas. Abbot, and 46, Capt. Andrew King. He then passed his examination; and on 9 Feb. 1825, at which period he had been serving for upwards of six months in South America on board the 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, he was made Lieutenant into the 18, Capts. Thos. Martin and Edw. Handfield. Attaining the rank of Commander 28 Feb. 1828, he was next, from 4 March, 1830, until paid off 2 Jan. 1834, employed in that capacity on board the 10, in which vessel, after having served in the Channel and off the coast of Ireland, we find him stationed in and off the rivers Douro and Tagus during the whole of the civil war in Portugal, from July, 1832, to Oct. 1833; and subsequently off the north coast of Spain at the commencement of the hostilities in that country. His Lordship, prior to the being put out of commission, had been advanced, 18 Nov. 1833, to the rank he now holds. His last appointment was, 28 Dec. 1841, to the 26, fitting for the Pacific, where, in Feb. 1843, certain indignities having been offered by the King of the Sandwich Islands, Kamehameha III., to Her Majesty’s subjects resident in his dominions, Lord George felt it his duty to institute demands, which led to the whole of the group being provisionally ceded to him. He accordingly retained possession of them, in the name of Queen Victoria, until 31 July following, when, by order of Rear-Admiral Thomas, the Commander-in-Chief, they were restored to their former government. The afterwards conveyed Queen Pomare, with 50 of her relatives and suite, from Tahiti to Raiatea, one of the leewardmost of the Society Islands. She returned to England and was paid off in June, 1845.

Lord Geo. Paulet married, 11 July, 1835, Georgina, daughter of the late Major-General Sir Geo. Wood, K.C.B., of Ottershaw Park, co. Surrey, and niece of the late Sir Mark Wood, Bart., by whom he has issue two children.

 PAULSON. 

entered the Navy, 16 March, 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Wm. Spranger, employed at first in the Channel, and afterwards among the Western Islands and in the West Indies. In July, 1814, he removed as Midshipman to the 10, Capt. Wm. Sargent, attached to the force on the Home station; and he next, in April and Aug. 1816, joined the 60, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, and  20, Capts. John Lake and Jas. Arthur Murray, both at St. Helena, whence, in Nov. 1817, he returned to England. From Feb. 1818 to April, 1819, he again served on board the, under Capts. White and Tattnall, on the Mediterranean station. In the following Aug., having passed his examination, he joined the 60, Capts. Chas. Richardson and Robt. Gore, in which ship, bearing the flag in the East Indies of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, he continued employed, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, Second-Master, and Acting-Lieutenant, until transferred with Capt. Gore, about Nov. 1822, in the capacity last mentioned, to the 18. In that vessel he visited New South Wales. He was confirmed a Lieutenant 29 March, 1822; and was subsequently appointed – 30 June following, to the 18, Capts. Geo. French, Robt. Graham Dunlop, and Geo. Fred. Ryves, in which vessel, prior to his return to England in July, 1824, he was afforded an opportunity of sharing, as First-Lieutenant, in the opening operations against the Burmese – 7 Feb. 1829, to the 46, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, fitting for service in South America, whence he came home and was paid off at the close of 1832 – 15 Jan. 1838, to the command, which he retained for nearly four years, of the 10, on the Lisbon station – and, 8 March, 1842, to the  yacht, Capt. Lord Adolphus FitzClarence. He attained his present rank in honour of the Queen’s visit to Scotland 21 Sept. 1842; and has since been on half-pay.

 PAYNE. 

is nephew of

This officer passed his examination 1 Sept. 1847; was appointed Mate, 16 Oct. following, of the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads; and since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 4 March, 1848, has been serving on board the  19, Capt. John Elphinstone Erskine.

 PAYNE. 

, born in 1779, at Weymouth, co. Dorset, is son of the late Rev. Sam. Payne, Rector of Weymouth, Wyke, and Portland; and brother of. This officer entered the Navy, 1 March, 1793, as L.M., on board the 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Rich, Isaac Schomberg, and Thos. Troubridge; in which ship, on his return from a voyage to the West Indies, we find him present as Midshipman in the battle of 1 June, 1794. On subsequently joining the 98, he served, under the flag of Sir John Colpoys, in Lord Bridport’s action with the French fleet off Ile de Groix 23 June, 1795. In the course of 1797 he was transferred in succession to the 38 and  36, Capts. Fras. Cole and Percy Fraser; and on 18 April, 1799, after having acted for some time as Lieutenant in the latter frigate, he was confirmed into the 74; bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Pasley at Plymouth. On his removal, in the following Nov., to 32, Capt. Henry Raper, he sailed in company with the  44 and a fleet of merchantmen for the West Indies. On 17 Dec, having fallen in with La Sirène, a heavy French frigate, La Bergère corvette, and the Calcutta an extra East-Indiaman, which the enemy had just captured,, while the was engaged in re-capturing and retaining possession of the Indianman, went in pursuit of the men-of-war, with whom, although they contrived in the end to make off, she maintained for 35 minutes a very spirited action. Some time afterwards Lieut. Payne was sent into Aguada Bay, Puerto Rico, for the purpose of cutting out a large schooner at anchor there. On the vessel being boarded, the enemy, who had just before discharged a broadside of grape, jumped out of her and made good their escape. The British, however, had scarcely commenced towing their prize when a heavy fire from a battery on shore was opened upon them, which killed and wounded almost every man in the barge. The other boats not being able to make any progress with the schooner, she was in consequence abandoned; it being the next day ascertained that she had been secured to the shore by hawsers under water. On leaving in April, 1801, Lieut. Payne assumed command of the at Martinique; he next, from Aug. in the same year until Aug. 1802, served, likewise in the West Indies, on board the