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Rh participating in the hostilities against the King of Ava. His appointments, after he left the, were – 24 April, 1827, to the 10, Capts. Chas. Gordon and Sir Thos. Raikes Trigge Thompson, on the South American station, whence he returned in May, 1830 – 26 Jan. 1831, to the command of the schooner, at Jamaica, where he was superseded in Feb. 1833 – 13 Nov. 1835, to the  steamer, which vessel, deducting a few months in 1836, he commanded for three years and a half on the Home and North America and West India stations – 10 Aug. 1841, to the command of the  brigantine, at Sheerness – and 22 Dec. following to the  110, Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Sam. Pym, Admiral-Superintendent at Devonport. On 16 Sept. 1844 he was advanced to the rank of Commander. His last appointment was, 30 March, 1847, to the steam-sloop of 280 horse-power.

 POTTS. 

died in 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, 7 Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capt. Rich. Lee in which ship (he had attained the rating of Midshipman) he was wrecked between Dunkerque and Gravelines 29 March, 1802. Joining next, in March, 1803, the 74, Capts. Thos. Louis and Israel Pellew, he served, under the latter officer, in Nelson’s pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back, and at the battle of Trafalgar. On 7 May, 1808, a few days after his removal to the 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Cotton at Lisbon, he was made Lieutenant into the sloop; and in that vessel, commanded in succession by Capts. Geo. Adey Creyke, Thos. Ball Sulivan, Geo. Henderson, and Henry Lynne, he was employed, on the Channel, East and West India, and Cape of Good Hope stations, until July, 1814. He remained thenceforward on half-pay.

 POULDEN. 

died 16 March, 1845.

This officer entered the Navy, 22 July, 1776, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, Capt. Sir John Hamilton, on the Home station, where he continued employed as Midshipman in the  74, Capt. Francis John Hartwell, and  sloop, Capt. Anthony Hunt, until transferred, in Oct. 1780, to the  90, fitting for the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, under whom, on arriving in the West Indies, he fought in a partial action with the Comte de Grasse 29 April, 1781. On 8 Jan. 1782 he was nominated, by the officer last mentioned, Acting-Lieutenant of the 74, Capts. Bain, Barber, and Thos. Dumaresq; to which ship the Admiralty confirmed him, 12 Feb. 1783. He returned to England in the following July, and was subsequently appointed, on the Home and Mediterranean stations – in March, 1788, to the sloop, Capts. W. Taylor and John Woodley – 27 Sept. 1791 and 11 Feb. 1793, to the and, both commanded by Capt. Woodley – in Sept. of the latter year, to the  74, successive flag-ship of Admirals Robt. Linzee and Philip Cosby, under the former of whom he co-operated in the reduction of Corsica – and 21 Jan. 1795, to the 74, Capts. John Leigh Douglas and Rich. Grindall, part of Lord Bridport’s fleet in the action off the Ile de Groix. On that occasion, Capt. Grindall having been wounded, the charge of the ship devolved upon Mr. Poulden; whose promotion to the rank of Commander was in consequence effected by a commission bearing date 29 of flie same month, June, 1795. In the ensuing Oct. he was sent as Principal for Transports to the river Elbe, for the purpose of embarking the foreign corps, with which he afterwards acoompadied Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian to the West Indies. Being next, in Nov. 1797, appointed to the 24, Capt. Poulden was present in that ship, again in the capacity of Principal Transport Agent, at the reduction of the island of Minorca, where he remained, in charge of the dockyard at Port Mahon, until the arrival of Commissioner Coffin. Quitting the in Aug. 1799, he assumed command, 12 March, 1801, of the  50; in which ship we find him, until Sept. 1802, employed on the Home, Baltic, and West India stations. Having attained Post rank 29 April in the latter year, he was afterwards appointed – 23 March, 1803, to the Superintendence of the Rendezvous for seamen at Whitby, in Yorkshire – 19 Sept. 1805, to the Sea Fencible service – and, 14 July, 1810, to the office of Principal Agent for Transports at Lisbon, where he remained until April, 1815. He became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired List 10 Jan. 1837; and on the Active 17 Aug. 1840.

 POULETT. 

, born 10 May, 1786, is second son of John, fourth Earl Poulett, by Sophia, daughter and heir of Admiral Sir Geo. Pocock, K.B. He is brother of the present Earl Poulett; and brother-in-law of the Duke of Cleveland. His youngest brother, William, an Ensign in the 4th Foot, died in 1812.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 Aug. 1797, as A.B., on board the Princess yacht, Capt. Riou, lying in the River Thames; served in the Channel as Midshipman, from Nov. 1798 until April, 1802, in the  36, Capts. Sir Harry Burrard Neale and Chas. Wm. Paterson, and 80, Capt. Albemarle Bertie; and from July in the latter year until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 3 April, 1804, cruized on the Downs station, the latter part of the time in the  sloop. He was present in the, and in company with the 38, at the defeat, by those ships, of three heavy French frigates and a gun-vessel, after a warm action of an hour and 55 minutes, fought within the jaws of one of the enemy’s ports, 9 April, 1799; and also, 2 July following, in an attack made by Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole on a Spanish squadron lying in Aix Roads. Mr. Poulett’s appointments, in the capacity of Lieutenant, were – 16 July, 1804, to the 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell at North Yarmouth – and, in March and June, 1805, to the and, Capts. Geo. Nicholas Hardinge and Sir Harry Burrard Neale, employed in the Downs and off Weymouth. He attained the rank of Commander 12 Oct. 1805; was appointed, 14 Jan. 1806, to the sloop, in the North Sea; acquired Post-rank 31 July following; was employed from 14 Nov. 1807, until 16 April, 1810, on the Home station, in the  32; and, on 24 July, 1827, became Flag-Captain, in the  120, to Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, where he remained until July, 1830. He was advanced to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.

From Aug. 1830 uutil his attainment of Flag-rank, the Rear-Admiral acted as a Naval Aide-de-Camp to his late and her present Majesty. He had been previously appointed Receiver-General of the Land and Assessed Taxes in Somersetshire. He married, 9 Dec. 1811, Catherine Sophia, eldest daughter of Sir Geo. Dallas, Bart., by whom, who died 11 April, 1831, he has issue three sons – the eldest, George, a Lieutenant in the 54th Regt.

 POWELL. 

is fourth son of the late John Folliott Powell, Esq., at one time of Sandy Brook, co. Derby, and afterwards of Leamington, co. Warwick, by Frances, eldest daughter of Chas. Arnett, Esq., of the Low, in Cheshire, and of Toft, co. Stafford, niece of Sir Joseph Scott, Bart., of Great Barr. The Lieutenant is first-cousin of the present Henry Folliott Powell, Esq., of Brandlesome Hall, co. Lancaster; and a near connexion of