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Rh we find him employed in the Baltic, under the orders of Rear-Admiral Keats, and assisting in the rescue of the Spanish army commanded by the Marquis de la Romana, which bad been drawn from Spain by Buonaparte, preparatory to his designs upon that country being carried into effect. Whilst on that service, he was selected to command some gun-boats sent to attack a Danish brig of war and a cutter, lying under the protection of the batteries of Nyborg, and which he compelled to surrender after a gallant resistance. They proved to be the Fama, of 18, and Salorman, of 12 guns. The enemy on this occasion had 7 men killed, and 13 wounded. The British, one officer, Lieutenant Harvey of the Superb, slain, and 2 seamen wounded.

On his return to England, Captain Macnamara was appointed to the Berwick, a new 74, in which he was employed on various services in the North Sea, and occasionally had the command of a squadron blockading Cherbourgh. On the 24th March, 1811, he chased a large French frigate, and compelled her to take shelter, with an ebbing tide, within the rocks near Barfleur light-house, where she was burnt by her crew, after receiving considerable damage from the Berwick’s fire.

Our officer was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, June 4, 1814. He married, Jan. 26, 1818, the widow of the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Carleton.

Residence.– Bath.



 officer is descended from an old and respectable family long seated at Ingmire Hall, on the borders of Westmoreland; a junior branch of which was attached to Cromwell’s army during the civil wars, and accompanied him to Ireland, where they acquired by the sword a considerable property, which is still in the possession of their progeny.

His father, an old dragoon officer, wished him to enter the army in preference to the navy, and as an inducement thereto, offered to purchase him a cornetcy, although then only 