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  J. R. Dacres, in Hamoaze, during the peace of Amiens; and was first of the Hussar 36, Captain Philip Wilkinson, when that frigate was wrecked near Brest, and the majority of her officers and crew made prisoners, in Feb. 1804.

Ten years elapsed before Mr. Pridham regained his liberty. He was made a commander on the 15th June, 1814; appointed to the Prince Frederick, receiving-ship, Nov. 4th following; to assist in superintending the Ordinary at Plymouth, in 1810; to be an inspecting commander in the preventive-water-guard service, in 1819; to command the Zebra sloop, fitting out for the East India station, Jan. 25th, 1829; and promoted to the rank of captain, July 22d, 1830. He married, in Mar. 1801, a Miss Glanville, of Plymouth.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, & Son. 

 to Captain Edmund Lyons, Knight of St. Louis, whose gallant services we have recorded in Suppl. Part III.

This officer was made a lieutenant in Dec. 1805; and commanded a detachment of seamen landed from the Montagu 74, to assist at the reduction of St. Maura, in Mar. and April 1810. He subsequently followed his captain (the present Rear-Admiral Moubray, C.B.) into the Repulse 74, also on the Mediterranean station. At the close of the war with Prance, in 1814, he was serving on board the Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flag of Sir Harry Neale; and since the peace he has commanded the Jaseur sloop, on the Cape of Good Hope station. His commission as commander bears date June 27th, 1814; and as captain, July 22d, 1830.



 descended from the Counts Von Westphal, one of the most ancient aristocratic families in the German empire. His grand-father was a judge of one of the principal Imperial courts of judicature; and his great-uncle, a dignitary of the