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 1st, 1825; returned home in the Southampton, Oct. 12th, 1832; and was promoted to the rank of captain Jan. 7th, 1833. 

 to the late Admiral Sir Thomas Foley, G.C.B., Rear-Admiral of Great Britain, who died commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Jan. 9th, 1833.

This officer entered the royal navy in 1812; obtained his first commission on the 5th Feb. 1821; and was promoted to the rank of commander, while serving under the flag of Sir Edward Codrington, in the Asia 84, on the Mediterranean station, April 28th, 1827. He was made a captain, in compliment to the memory of his gallant uncle, Jan. 16th, 1833. 

 to Admiral Lord De Saumarez, G.C.B., General of Marines, &c.

This officer obtained a lieutenant’s commission in Oct. 1811; and was appointed to the Tonnant 80, flag-ship of the Hon. Sir Alexander I. Cochrane, on the Halifax station, in the beginning of 1814. He subsequently entered into the merchant service, and commanded the ship Zenobia, of Calcutta, for some years in the East Indies and Pacific. The following is extracted from the Sidney Gazette, April 1823:–

“The Zenobia, Captain John Lihou, is the first ship, we believe, which has ever succeeded In passing Torres Straits from the westward, the general course being from the eastward. This essay of nautical skill was accomplished after the loss of four anchors and the rudder. the ship was afterwards brought up with guns in a fine and extensive harbour in Endeavour Strait, which Captain Lihou reports to be capable of affording commodious and safe anchorage to a first-rate man-of-war, having 6½ fathoms, with a mud bottom, within a bar that crosses the entrance, but over which the Zenobia, of 550 tons, glided with ease. This harbour,