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  of the Cape of Good Hope. Attaining the rank of Commander 25 July, 1796, he joined in that capacity, in April, 1800, the troop-ship, in which he accompanied the expedition of 1801 to Egypt; where, on 8 March in that year, he served with the launches containing the field artillery under Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and assisted at the debarkation of the army in Aboukir Bay. He also landed and acted in unison with the troops. He invalided in the following July; was promoted for his services to Post-rank 29 April, 1802; served afterwards in the Sea Fencibles at Margate and Dartmouth; and commanded, from 25 Feb. 1822 until April, 1825, the 42, flag-ship of Lord Colville at Cork. He became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired List 10 Jan. 1837, and on the Active 17 Aug. 1840; and a Vice-Admiral 9 Nov. 1846. His wife died 29 July, 1845. – Messrs. Stilwell. 

RICE. 

entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 23 Nov. 1839; served as Mate on the Mediterranean, East India, and Home stations, in the steamer, Capt. Horatio Thos. Austin, 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel,  16, Capt. Philip Justice, and  120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley; and obtained his commission 5 Aug. 1844. His appointments have since been – 5 Feb. 1845, for about 12 months, to the 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, attached to an experimental squadron employed under the orders of Rear-Admirals Hyde Parker and Sir Sam. Pym – 14 Oct. 1846, to the 46, Capt. Henry John Codrington, fitting at Portsmouth – and, 30 Dec. following, to the  80, Capts. Geo. Wickens Willes and Geo. Fred. Rich, now in the Mediterranean. 

RICE. 

passed his examination 8 May, 1847; became in the course of the same month. Mate of the 50, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen in North America and the West Indies; and since 6 Oct. following has been serving on that station as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (commission dated 19 June, 1848) in the 12, Capt. Wm. Peel. 

RICE. 

was born 13 June, 1787.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 July, 1802, as A.B., on board the yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, stationed off Weymouth. In Sept. 1803, after having been for eight months employed in a merchantman on a voyage to the Mediterranean, he re-embarked as Midshipman on board the 74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge; under whom he fought in Sir Robt. Calder’s action 22 July, 1805, and in Feb. 1807 passed the Dardanells. Being made Lieutenant, 9 Nov. 1808, into the of 44 guns and 271 men, Capts. Hassard Stackpoole and Jas. Hillyar, he assisted in that ship at the reduction of the Isle of France in Dec. 1810. He was also, prior to joining in the expedition against Java, present, 20 May, 1811 (while cruizing off Madagascar in company with the and, frigates nearly equal in force to the , and 18-gun brig ), at the capture – after a long and trying action with the French 40-gun frigates Rénommée, Clorinde, and Néréide, and a loss to the  of 7 men killed and 24 wounded – of the Rénommée, and on 25 of the same month of the Néréide and the settlement of Tamatave. On his return from escorting convoy to Quebec Mr. Rice, in July, 1812, invalided. His last appointments were – 16 Jan. 1813, for six months, to the 74, Capt. Thos. Dundas, in which ship he accompanied the trade to the West Indies – and, in May, 1815, to the 12, Capt. Jas. Boyd, and his old ship the, still commanded by Capt. Hillyar, with whom he served off the coast of France until paid off 28 Aug. ensuing. He accepted his present rank 13 April, 1846.

Commander Rice married, 30 Oct. 1839, Miss Ann Berry, of Chawton, near Alton, Hants. 

RICH. 

entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 28, Capt. Edw. W. C. R. Owen, with whom he continued almost uninterruptedly employed as Midshipman in the 36 and  38, until transferred, in Dec. 1808, to the  sloop, Capt. Anthony Abdy. The very active nature of his services during that period will be seen by a reference to of the gallant and distinguished officer under whose command he was. After he had again been for a short time attached to the Clyde on the Downs station, he there, in June, 1809, became Acting-Lieutenant of the 10, Capt. Rich. Arthur. Returning at the end of three months to a Midshipman’s berth in the, he took part in Sir Rich. Strachan’s attack upon Flushing. On the occasion of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 28 June, 1810, Mr. Rich was nominated Flag-Lieutenant, in the, to Rear-Admiral Chas. Boyles at Malta. His succeeding appointments were – in Jan. and Sept. 1811 and Oct. 1812, to the 32,  110, and  36, Capts. John Ayscough, Geo. Burlton, and Edwin Henry Chamberlayne, all in the Mediterranean – 13 Dec. 1814 to the 98, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen on the lakes of Canada and 24 March, 1815, to the command, for three months, of the gun-boats on the river St. Lawrence. Attaining the rank of Commander 27 Jan. 1816, he served in that capacity in the 10, at Jamaica, from 18 Jan. 1828 until superseded in Sept. 1829; and in the Coast Guard from 29 March, 1837, until posted 28 Jan. 1838. He has since been on half-pay. – Hallett and Robinson. 

RICH. 

., is fifth son of the late Rev. Sir Chas. Bostock Rich, Bart., LL.D., of Shirley House, Hants, by Mary Frances, only daughter and heir of Lieut.-General Sir Robt. Rich, Bart., of Rose Hall, co. Suffolk, and niece of the first Earl of Ludlow. He is brother of Sir Geo. Rich, who was Chamberlain of the Household to the Viceregal Court of Ireland during the government of the Marquis of Wellesley; and uncle of

This officer entered the Navy, 8 Feb. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. John Clarke Searle, bearing the flag in the Downs of Lord Keith, whom he followed into the  74. Removing, in Aug. 1805, to 40, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he was present in that ship, and in company with the 38, at the capture, 24 Dec. in the same year, after an obstinate resistance, of La Libre French frigate of 40 guns and 280 men. In April, 1806, he became Midshipman of the of 42 guns and 281 men Capt. John Stewart, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where, besides assisting at the reduction of the islands of Gianuti and Pianosa, he contributed, on the night of 5 July, 1808, to the defeat of the Turkish frigate Alis-Fezan of 26 guns and 230 men, and the capture, after a memorably furious engagement and a loss to the  (30 of whose crew were absent) of 5 killed and 10 wounded, of her consort the Badere Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were killed and 200 wounded. Quitting the in Jan. 1810, Mr. Rich, during the next two months, served on board the  74 Capt. Edw. Griffith. In the following Oct. he was received as Master’s Mate on board the 