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  as a Midshipman under the late Vice-Admiral Rainier; was made a Lieutenant into la Chiffone frigate, on the East India station; promoted to the rank of Commander, Jan. 22, 1806; and posted Sept. 25, in the same year. He subsequently commanded the Jamaica 24. Captain Lysaght married, in 1813, Caroline, daughter of Thomas Cuming, of Camden Place, Bath, Esq. which lady died in 1825.

Agent.– Messrs. Stilwell. 

 antiquity of the Percy family is too well-known to require any particular notice thereof in a work of this description; we shall therefore merely state, that the officer now before us is the fourth son of the present Earl of Beverley, and a first cousin to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland; he is consequently more or less connected with many of the most ancient and dignified families in the British peerage.

The Hon. Josceline Percy was born Jan. 29, 1784. He entered the royal navy in 1797, served his time as a Midshipman on board the Sans Pareil 80, bearing the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour; and Amphion frigate, commanded by Captain Richard Henry Alexander Bennett; passed his examination for a Lieutenancy in April 1803 ; and received his first commission from Lord Nelson, about Sept. in the same year.

On leaving Nelson’s flag-ship, Lieutenant Percy joined the Medusa frigate, commanded by Captain (now Sir John) Gore, with whom he continued until 1805; when he was removed into the Diadem 64, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Home Popham, in which ship he assisted at the capture of Cape Town and its dependencies, Jan. 1806.

