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  of William Pennell, Esq., His Majesty’s Consul-General at Rio Janeiro.

This officer was born in Feb. 1804; and entered the royal navy, as midshipman on board the Impregnable 104, bearing the flag of Viscount Exmouth, at Plymouth, in Feb. 1818. He subsequently served under Captain the Hon. Fleetwood B. R. Pellew, and Commodore Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen, in the Revolutionnaire frigate, and Gloucester 74, on the Mediterranean and West India stations; wa« promoted from the latter ship into the Pyramus 42, Captain Francis Newcombe, C.B., Sept. 1st, 1824; appointed to the Rainbow 28, Captain the Hon. Henry John Rous, at Chatham, July 30th, 1825; removed to the Cyréne 20, Captain Alexander Campbell, Dec. 19th following; and advanced to the command of the Fly 18, on the East India station, Nov. 13th, 1826. His commission as captain bears date July 14th, 1828.



 officer entered the royal navy early in 1800, as midshipman on board the Triumph 74, Captain (afterwards Sir Eliab) Harvey; and subsequently served under Captain (now Sir Thomas) Foley, and the late Captains Joseph Baker and W. H. Ricketts Jervis, in the Elephant, Ganges, and Robust, third rates, on the Jamaica station, from whence he returned home in the summer of 1802. He then joined the Lapwing 28, Captain Andrew Skene, and was in that frigate when she captured the Henrietta, a valuable French merchantman. We next find him again serving under his old friend Captain Harvey, then commanding the Temeraire 98, in which highly distinguished ship he bore a part at the memorable battle of Trafalgar. His first commission, 