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Rh Edw. Wm. Paynter, a Midshipman R.N., died in 1810 on board the 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn.

This officer entered the Navy, 12 Feb. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 110, Capts. John Tremayne Rodd and Tristram Robt. Bicketts, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton, under whom he attained the rating of Midshipman in Aug. of the same year. In Jan. 1806, up to which period he had been employed in the blockade of Brest, he rejoined Capt. Rodd on board the 44, in which ship, participating, in April, 1809, in Lord Cochrane’s attack upon the French fleet in Aix Roads, he was, on 12 of that month, for upwards of 10 hours under fire of the enemy’s batteries, and for 50 minutes engaged in close action with the Ville de Varsovie 80, which ship had run on shore during the preceding evening. He continued in the with Capt. Henry Edw. Reginald Baker until Feb. 1810; and on 1 Aug. in that year, after having been again employed, under the command of Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn and the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton, on board the, was made Lieutenant into the 36, Capts. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, Abel Ferris, Thos. Ussher, Jeremiah Coghlan, and Chas. Napier. Under Capt. Dundas he took part in several battery actions on the coast of Calabria; and, under Capt. Napier, besides contributing to the capture, 16 May, 1813, of La Fortune national xebec, of 10 guns, 4 swivels, and 95 men, together with upwards of 20 sail of merchantmen lying in the harbour of Cavalarie, he assisted in the following winter in simultaneously driving on shore, in Calvi Bay, the Balleine French store-ship of 22 guns and 120 men, and compelling a gaberre of 30 guns and 150 men, laden with stores, and a national schooner of the largest class, to seek refuge under the land batteries. In 1814 Mr. Paynter, having accompanied a fleet of transports to North America, was further present at the capture, up the Patuxeut river, of Fort Washington, and the capitulation of Alexandria. Becoming, 25 March, 1815, Flag-Lieutenaut to Lord Exmouth in the 98, he beheld, in the course of that year, the surrender of Naples, and afterwards visited the Barbary States for the purpose of endeavouring to procure the release of Christian slaves. At Algiers, being sent on shore to demand the release from custody of the English Consul, Colonel Macdonald, he was himself seized by the Dey, and lodged in the Black Hole. The menacing aspect subsequently assumed by the British fleet procured his enlargement; and on his return to England he was advanced to the rank of Commander 7 Nov. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.

 PEACE. 

was born 25 Sept. 1790. This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 44, Capt. John Shortland, with whom he continued employed in the  18 and  24, on the Irish, African, and Halifax stations, until Nov. 1808. Joining next, in Jan. 1809, the 32, Capt. John Ayscough, he commanded a boat belonging to that ship at the reduction of Ischia and Procida, and co-operated in the defence of Sicily against the threatened invasion of Murat. On 30 July, 1809, we find him serving in the boats, as Master’s Mate, at the capture, off Cerigo, of two French privateers, one carrying 9 guns, 4 swivels, and 78 men, the other 1 gun and 20 men. He shortly afterwards commanded a boat, one of two under the orders of Lieut. Geo. Rose Sartorius, at the taking of a ship of 6 guns and 30 men. On 4 April, 1810, he was reported in the highest terms for his conduct at the destruction (by the boats of the and  sloop, commanded by the same officer) of several vessels well protected on the beach abreast of Castiglione; and on 25 of the same month he had charge of a boat at the capture of an armed ship and three barks under the castle of Terracina. In the following Oct. he assisted, on the coast of Naples, in destroying 2 gun-boats and 34 sail of troop-ships. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the 64, Capt. Rich. Budd Vincent, after having acted tor a short time as Mate, 22 April, 1811; and was next, between Dec. of the same year and Oct. 1815, employed, on the Mediterranean, Home, and Barbadoes stations, in the sloop, Capt. John Bellamy,  again, Capt. R. B. Vincent,  18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley,  troop-ship, Capt. Anthony Blagrave Valpy, and, as Senior Lieutenant, in the  16, Capt. Edw. Lloyd. His last appointments were, in the capacity last mentioned – 19 Aug. 1818, to the 18, Capt. Fred. Hunn, stationed, until her return to England in the autumn of 1821, off St. Helena for the purpose of watching Napoleon Buonaparte – and, 18 May, 1827, to the 28, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he came home in Feb. 1831. – Goode and Lawrence.

 PEACOCKE. 

died 24 April, 1846, at Aix-la-Chapelle, of disease of the heart.

This officer entered the Navy, 9 March, 1781, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 50, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, stationed in the Channel, where, in 1782, he followed the same Captain into the 50. From 1783 to 1786 he served in the West Indies, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 20, Capt. Hutt; he next, in 1793, joined the  74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Peter Rainier in the East Indies; and on 22 Jan. 1796 he was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for six months as such, in the  44, Capt. Edw. Pakenham. In that ship he co-operated in the reduction, in Aug. 1 795, of Malacca; and, as Senior-Lieutenant, in the capture, in March, 1796, of Amboyna and Banda. Invaliding home in the following Nov., he was appointed, 13 Oct. 1797, to the 74, commanded by his old Captain, Duckworth; under whom, when in company with the  44, he assisted, again as First-Lieutenant, at the capture, 6 Feb. 1799, of the Spanish frigate Santa Teresa, of 42 guns. Previously to that event he had been serving, for a few months in 1798, on board the 98, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis off Cadiz. On leaving the in 1799 he was appointed, for a short time, Acting-Captain of the  74. On 28 Jan. 1801, four months previously to which period he had rejoined the, he was promoted to the command of the sloop in the West Indies; where he was made Post, 4 June, 1801, into the. He subsequently, in 1802-3, served in the frigate, on the same station, and in 1806-7 in the  80 in the Channel. He became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired List 22 July, 1830; on the Active 17 Aug. 1840; and a Vice-Admiral 23 Nov. 1841.

He married, 27 Feb. 1821, Martha Louisa, fourth daughter of the late Geo. Dacre, Esq., of Marwell House, Hants. – Hallett and Robinson.

 PEAKE. 

was born 25 July, 1793, and died 2 Jan. 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 26 Jan. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 28, Capt. Edwards Lloyd Graham; under whom, until paid off in April, 1810, he was constantly employed in the Channel and North Sea, among the Western Islands, and at Newfoundland. He assisted during that period at the capture, with a large number of merchant-vessels, of L’Intrépide privateer of 20 guns and 125 men, and was on several occasions intrusted with the charge of a prize. In May, 1810, he became Midshipman (a rating he had attained in June, 1809) of the 32, commanded at first by Capt. Graham, and subsequently by Capts. Pringle