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Rh  of the 24th, by the enemy, Capt. Price was despatched to acquaint him with the approach of reinforcements. In carrying out his instructions he fell in with a party of the enemy, who fired at and shot him through the thigh. “In this state,” reports Rear-Admiral Malcolm, “he not only made his escape, but secured an American soldier: I trust his wound is not dangerous, as he is a gallant young man and an excellent officer.” The subsequently aided in the bombardment of Fort St. Philip, and continued on the Mississippi until the retreat of the British army. In Feb. 1815, after landing a body of troops on Dauphin Island, Capt. Price took a zealous and active part in the attack on Fort Bowyer. During the proximate siege of Fort Mobile he was sent in charge of a division of boats to intercept a force of 800 men which had been sent from the town of Mobile for the purpose of raising it. Successful in the object of his mission, he effected the capture of two schooners, in one of which were found despatches of consequence from the American General Blew. The importance of Capt. Price’s performance was acknowledged in Major-General Lambert’s public letter to the War-Office. On the intelligence of peace arriving from England he was sent with a flag-of-truce to communicate the information to the Americans at Mobile, and to restore Fort Bowyer to the proper authorities. On his return to England he was advanced to his present rank 13 June, 1815. When next in command, from 1 May, 1834, until the spring of 1838, of the 52, on the Mediterranean station, he was presented by King Otho with the Order of the Redeemer for his services to the Greek Government. The assistance afforded by him to jhe British mission was also acknowledged in the official letters of Sir Edm. Lyons, the Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of Athens. Since 10 Nov. 1846 he has been employed as Superintendent of the dockyard at Sheerness and Captain of the 80 and  72.

Capt. Price is a Magistrate for Brecknockshire. He married, 30 July, 1844, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Taylor, Esq., and niece of the late Admiral Wm. Taylor (1830), of Maize Hill, Greenwich. – Hallett and Robinson,

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was born 5 July, 1785. This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capt. Robt. Barlow, stationed in the Channel. In Jan. 1795 he removed to the of 48 guns, Capts. Schomberg and Hon. Michael de Courcy, employed on the coast of Ireland; and he next, from July, 1797, to June, 1802, served in the Channel and among the Western Islands in the 38, Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats and Chas. Rowley. During that period he was twice wounded – once in an attack made by Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole on a Spanish squadron in Aix Roads, 2 July, 1799, and again at the cutting out of a Spanish packet and gun-boat from the harbour of Corunna. In Sept. 1802 and Nov. 1803 we find him successively joining the gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders Thos. Thompson and Geo. Hayes, and, as Master’s Mate, the 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, under whom he was again wounded in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. In consideration of his sufferings he was voted by the Patriotic Society the sum of 30l He obtained his commission 30 Jan. 1806, and from the following May until July, 1807, was employed in the Channel and North Sea on board the 74, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 6 April, 1839.

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entered the Navy, 28 Feb. 1807, as a Supernumerary, on board the 74, Capt, Nathaniel Day Cochrane, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex, Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, where, from the following March until April, 1810, he served under the orders of Capt. John Ellis Watt, part of the time as Midshipman, in the, , ,  again, and. He then returned to England with convoy in the frigate, Capt. Thos. Huskisson; and in Jan. 1811, after having been for six months borne at on the books of the  28, Capt. Wm. Rogers, and, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Augustus Hire, was received on board the frigate, Capt. John Quilliam, attached to the force in the Baltic. He served next at Halifax, from April, 1813, to Oct. 1815, in the 14, Capt. John Skekel,  32, Capts. John Rich. Lumley, Jas. Galloway, and Alex. Gordon, and, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Stuart. The was wrecked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 27 Sept. 1813. Having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 28 Feb. 1815, Mr. Price, at the close of that year, returned to England in the 10, Lieut.-Commander Crooke. He has since been on half-pay. He is married and has issue.

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is youngest son of the late Capt. Chas. Papps Price, R.N., and brother (with the present Lieut. Chas. Henry Price) of the late Capt. Geo. Price, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Badger 8, commanded by his father, Lieut. Chas. Papps Price, under whom, while employed on the coast of Normandy in protecting the island of St. Marcouf, we find him present at the cutting-out, after a fierce resistance, of a guard-vessel in the river Isigny, and also at the destruction of the barge in which Sir Sidney Smith had been captured. From Dec. 1797 to May, 1802, he served as Midshipman in the 98, and was for the most part engaged at the blockade of Brest. Joining next, in Sept. of the latter year, the sloop, Capts. W. H. Faulkner and John Impey, he cruized in that vessel on the Irish, Baltic, and Channel stations, and was on board of her off Bognor, in Oct. 1803, during a three days’ gale, in which she lost her masts and rudder, sprang a dangerous leak, and was all but lost. On the third night, the gale having somewhat subsided, he was directed by Capt. Impey to endeavour to get a letter on shore with an account of the state to which the had been reduced. Not daring to beach his boat, Mr. Price jumped into the serf, and, although half-drowned, succeeded in conveying the despatch to a signal-station, whence it was forwarded to Portsmouth. Soon after this occurrence he joined the 98, Capts. Theophilus Jones, Fras. Pender, and Manley Dixon, in which ship, during upwards of 12 months that he