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Rh Capt. Geo. Burlton, attached to the force in the North Sea. Becoming Master’s Mate, in the early part of 1809, of the 38, Capts. Lord Cochrane and Thos. Garth, he was intrusted by the former with the command of an explosion-vessel in his celebrated attack upon the French shipping in Aix Roads; and so much to the satisfaction of his Lordship and of the Commander-in-Chief did he conduct it that he received from the Admiralty the sum of 10l., accompanied by a promise of promotion. On the same occasion we find him setting fire to the Calcutta 56, and otherwise contributing to the destruction of the French fleet. Continuing in the until Jan. 1810, he assisted, during the expedition to the Walcheren, in silencing and destroying a 30-gun battery opposite to Flushing. He also aided in cutting out four gun-boats, together with a convoy under their protection, and took part in a variety of detached operations along the enemy’s coast. He afterwards, from Jan. 1810 until the close of 1813, served with Capt. Burlton on the Home and Mediterranean stations in the and  74’s,  110, and  98. Of the he was created a Lieutenant 15 March, 1810. In 1814-15 he served in the Mediterranean and at Newfoundland in the 74 and  18, Capts. Moubray and Williams. He has since been on half-pay.

Subsequently to the peace Lieut. Rawlinson was employed under Lord Cochrane in South America. He married 8 Aug. 1818, and has issue five sons and four daughters. – Goode and Lawrence.

 RAWSTORNE. 

(whose very respectable family, seated for centuries in Lancashire, is now represented by Colonel Lawrence Rawstorne, of Penwortham, in that co.) is second son of the late Capt. Jas. Rawstorne, who fought in the American and Peninsular wars, by a daughter of Capt. Gibson. Two of his brothers, Fleetwood and John George, are officers in the army – the latter a Captain in the 62nd regt. One of his aunts married the late Sir Michael Pilkington, Bart., and was the mother of the present Sir Wm. Pilkington, Bart., of Chevet Hall, co. York. His eldest sister is the wife of

This officer entered the Navy, 9 Oct. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capt. Hew Steuart, on the Channel station; removed, in April, 1807, to the  110, Capt. John Conn, lying at Plymouth; and from the following June until Sept. 1812 was employed as Midshipman, on the Home, Lisbon, and Mediterranean stations, in the  120 and  again, flag-ships of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and Sir Chas. Cotton, and 18,  74, and  64, all commanded by Capt. Wm. Stewart. Under Sir W. S. Smith, in the, we find him, towards the close of 1807, witnessing the flight of the Royal House of Portugal to the Brazils; and, in the boats of the , contributing, in 1811, to the capture of the Medes Islands and to the destruction of an armed schooner and convoy at the mouth of the Rhone. After serving for about a month at Cadiz in the 74, flag-ship of Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, Mr. Rawstorne joined, in Nov. 1812, the  74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Paget, bearing the flag afterwards of Hon. Henry Hotham, and proceeded to the coast of North America, where, in command of a tender, he succeeded, during the year 1814, in capturing several vessels laden with military stores. In July, 1815, at which period he had been for many weeks stationed in Basque Roads, he took up a commission bearing date 3 of the preceding March. His subsequent appointments were – 16 March, 1830, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 16 March, 1831, to the Coast Guard, in which service he continued upwards of seven years – 28 Aug. 1838, as First, to the 18, Capt. Peter Sampson Hambly, fitting for South America, whence he returned to England and was paid off at the close of 1841 – 1 Feb. 1842, in a similar capacity, to the  72, which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane in the East Indies, he left about the commencement of 1845 – 5 Dec. 1845, again as Senior, to the 120, Capt. John Neale Nott, attached to the Channel squadron – and, 6 July, 1845, as Additional, to the  104, Capt. John Pasco, at Portsmouth. He was advanced to his present rank 9 Nov. 1846.

Commander Rawstorne married Harriet, daughter of Capt. Atkins, R.N. – Hallett and Robinson.

 RAY. 

entered the Navy, 13 Feb. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and John Talbot, under the latter of whom we find him, when in company in the Adriatic with the 18, present as Midshipman, 21 Feb. 1812, in a most gallant conflict of, which terminated in the capture, with a loss to the  of 27 men killed and 99 (including himself) wounded, and to the enemy of 400 killed and wounded, of the French 74 Rivoli, whose consorts, 3 brigs and 2 gun-boats, were at the same time defeated. Between the following Oct. and Dec. 1814 he served on the North American, West India, and Leith stations in the 44, Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan (under whom he was wrecked, on the north end of the island of Barbuda, in a violent hurricane, 6 Nov. 1813), brig, Capt. Bertie Cornelius Cator, and, Lieut.-Commander John Mundell. During the war of a Hundred Days he cruised off the coast of France in the 50, Capt. John Hancock; and from Feb. 1816 until Oct. 1823 he was employed on the Mediterranean, Home, South American, and African stations, in the  38, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, 20, Capt. Rich. Spencer, 74, Capt. Chas. Ekins, 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, sloop, Capt. John Wm. Montagu, and 42, Capts. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer and John Filmore. On 22 of the month last mentioned (having acted for some time as Lieutenant of the Owen Glendower) he was confirmed in the rank he now holds. With the exception of a few months in 1837, he held an appointment in the Coast Guard from 11 Nov. 1826 until March, 1840; he then obtained command of the Revenue-vessel; and since 30 March, 1846, he has been officiating as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel. – Hallett and Robinson.

 RAYLEY. 

entered the Navy, 2 Oct. 1793, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74 Capt. Jas. Cumming, stationed in the Channel and on removing to the 74, Capts. Wm. Parker and Alex. Hood, fought as Midshipman of the mizen-top in Lord Howe’s action 28 May, 1794, on which occasion the won distinction by her gallant defeat of the French 110-gun ship Révolutionnaire, after a close and furious engagement of nearly two hours. In Oct. of the same year, Capt. Parker having been promoted to Flag-rank and appointed Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica, Mr. Rayley rejoined him on board the 64, and sailed for the West Indies, where, in Dec. 1795, he followed him into the  74. In that ship he was severely wounded in the right leg under the batteries of Port Paix, St. Domingo. After serving for a short time with Commodore Sir Robt. Calder in the 110, and again with Admiral Parker, on the Lisbon, Mediterranean, and Halifax stations, in the  98,  98, and  64, he was nominated, 17 Sept. 1800, Acting-Lieutenant of the