admiralty. In July, 1805, resigning his seat at the board, he was commissioned to the Royal Sovereign yacht; and, soon after, to the London, ninetyeight guns, attached to the squadron under Sir John B. Warren.

On the 13th of March, 1806, Sir Harry Neale, being in command of the London, and assisted by the Amazon, captured a French line-of-battle ship and a frigate, after a running fight of six hours. In 1808, he joined the channel fleet, under Lord Gambier; and, in the succeeding year, was present at the destruction of the French ships in Aix Roads; and, afterwards, commanded the blockading squadron

off Rochefort; a duty which he performed with great judgment. On the 31st of July, 1810, he became a rearadmiral, and was appointed to the Boyne, ninety-eight guns. In the spring of 1813, he shifted his flag into the Ville de Paris, a first-rate, in which it continued until the peace. He was made vice-admira!, June 4th, 1814; K. C. B., January 2nd, 1815; G. C. B., September 14th, 1822; and he sat, for many years, as member of parliament for Lymington. Sir Harry Burrard, in every service on which he was em ployed, sustained the character of a brave and skilful naval officer, and fully merited the honours he received.

THIS officer, third son of Sir Henry Martin, Bart., comptroller of the navy, and member of parliament for Southampton, went, in 1793, with Lord Hood, to the Mediterranean, as commander of the Tisiphone sloop, from which he was removed into the Modeste frigate. Being advanced to post rank on the 5th of March, 1793, he served at the reduction of Bastia; and, in 1795, being on the Irish station, in the Santa Margarita, accompanied by the Cerberus frigate, he took Le Jean Bart, a corvette of eighteen guns, belonging to the enemy. In the following year, he took a French frigate off Sicily, on the 8th of June, and two privateers at the latter end of October. In 1797, he cruised in the Tamar, with considerable success, on the West India station; where he took, in a few months, nine privateers, and afterwards returned to England. Having been appointed to the Fisgard, of forty-six guns, he fell in, on the 20th of October, 1798, off Brest, with an enemy's ship, which he captured, after a long contest; during which, his ship became so ungovernable, that, but for the skilful exertions of the officers and crew of the Fisgard, her opponent would have succeeded in escaping. In 1800, while acting under the orders of Sir J. B. Warren, Captain Martin, on the 23rd of June, headed an attack by the boats of the squadron, on some

armed vessels in the Quimper river; but the enemy having retired, the British landed, and blew up three batteries. On the 1st of the following month, he took charge of an enterprise against some vessels lying within the island of Nourmontier, laden with supplies for the fleet at Brest, and moored under the protection of six heavy batteries. The party, consisting of seven officers, and one hundred and eighty-five men, boarded the ships of the enemy, and being unable to bring them out, were forced to destroy their prizes. In endeavouring to get off, they experienced considerable difficulty, owing to the tide having gone down, and while vainly attempting to get their boats into deep water, were exposed to the heavy fire of the enemy. By taking another vessel from their opponents, which they dragged through the sand for two miles, before they could get it afloat, they at last reached the Fisgard, which, during the remainder of the war, succeeded in capturing several French and Spanish armed vessels. She was put out of commission on the conclusion of a peace; and, in 1803, Captain Martin was appointed to the Impetueuse, eighty-four, employed off Brest, Ferrol and Corunna, till 1807; when he removed, successively, into the Prince of Wales and the Implacable; in the latter of which, he proceeded,

under Sir James Saumarez, to the Baltic. Being employed in assisting Sweden against Russia, he, on the 26th of August, 1808, attacked, and would have captured, the Sewolod,seventy-four, which was saved by the near approach of the whole Russian fleet bearing up to her assistance. She afterwards grounded; and having surrendered to the Centaur, such was the injury she had sustained in the action with the Implacable, that she was destroyed; and Captain Martin received the Swedish order of the Sword, as a reward for his services. Continuing in the same ship, he, on the 6th of July, 1809, at the head of a small squadron, entered the Gulf of Narva; and, notwithstanding the strength of the place, succeeded in taking twelve Russian ships, laden with provisions, besides a number of gun-boats. Captain Martin obtained the command of the Sovereign yacht, on the 31st of July, 1810; was made a rear-admiral on the 1st of August, in the following year; and, with his flag in the Aboukir,

proceeded to the Baltic. Here he assisted in the defence of Riga; and, having returned to England, was appointed second in command at Plymouth. He was knighted in 1814; made a K. C. B. in 1815; and, in 1816, was made comptroller of the navy.

In 1822, he was returned to parliament for Lymington, and subsequently for Plymouth. He has been advanced to the rank of vice-admiral of the red, is a director of Greenwich Hospital, and a commissioner of the board of longitude.

Sir Byam Martin was an officer of considerable energy and skill; while the zeal and judgment he possessed rendered him also valuable to his country in a civil capacity. His naval services were numerous, though not particularly distinguished; and, in his performance of the duties of comptroller of the navy, he evinced the same talent and assiduity by which, throughout his nautical career, he rendered himself eminent.

EDWARD BERRY entered the merchant service at the age of fourteen, and soon after was advanced to the situation of mate in a West-Indiaman; in which capacity, during the American war, he crossed the Atlantic. He was subsequently pressed, and placed on the quarter-deck of a king's ship; where, by his bravery in jumping on board a French vessel of war, which would have probably escaped, he compelled it to surrender; and for which heroic action he was rewarded by a lieutenant's commission. He also signalized himself, on the 1st of June, 1794, in Lord Howe's victory. In the early part of the year 1796, he was appointed to the Agamemnon, of sixty-four guns,

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manded by Commodore Nelson; and at Porto Feraijo, being first lieutenant of his majesty's ship, Captain, Nelson urged his promotion, for the masterly style in which he brought that ship to bear on the batteries. In the battle off Cape St. Vincent, on the 14th of February, 1797, being in the Captain,

with Sir Horatio Nelson, he was the first man to board the San Nicholas; and was among the first who took possession of the San Josef. For his heroic conduct in this action, he was, on the 16th of March, 1797, advanced to the rank of post-captain.

In July, 1797, he commanded one of the ships employed in the expedition against Santa Cruz, under the direction of Nelson, whose arm was shattered by a shot which rendered amputation necessary. On being condoled with, by the king, at a levee, for the loss of his limb, he turned round to Berry, who had been in the same boat with him at the time the accident occurred, and, introducing the captain to his majesty, observed, "that he had not experienced great loss, as this officer was his right hand." On the 1st of August, 1798, when Lord Nelson was wounded in the head, at the battle of the Nile, Captain Berry, who commanded the Vanguard, seventy-four, caught the admiral in his arms, and took an active part in the

memorable victory. His conduct was highly eulogized by Nelson, who said in his despatches, that, when he was, of necessity, himself removed from the deck, Captain Berry was fully equal to the important duty which devolved on him.

Being despatched in the Leander, Captain Thomson, to carry the news of the victory to Europe, he was met by a large French ship, called Le Généreux; to which, though of a very superior force, it was determined, by those in command of the English ship, that they would not quietly surrender. After a bloody fight of several hours, in which Captain Berry was wounded in the arm, by a part of the skull of one of six belonging to the ship's company who fell around him, the Leander was, at length, compelled honourably to strike her colours. On returning to England, a privilege allowed to Captains Thomson and Berry, on their parole, a court-martial ensued, by which the former was acquitted, and the latter eulogized for the zeal he had manifested by giving his assistance in the combat. The intelligence of the late glorious victory having preceded the arrival of these gallant officers, they were received with applause by their countrymen. Captain Berry knighted, on the 12th of December, 1798, and was presented with the freedom of the city of London; on which occasion, the chamberlain observed, "that the city of London was particularly happy to celebrate the magnanimity of one of its own citizens."

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In the autumn of the following year, he proceeded again to the Mediterranean, as captain of Nelson's flag-ship, the Foudroyant, of eighty guns; and, in March, 1800, assisted in capturing his old opponent, Le Généreux, and Le Guillaume Tell, of eighty guns, the only remaining ship which had escaped from the battle in Aboukir Bay. The latter vessel gallantly kept her colours flying till she was an ungovernable log, and had lost two hundred of her men, while but eight of the crew of the Foudroyant were killed, and sixty-one wounded. She, however, expended one hundred and sixty-two barrels of gunpowder, and two thousand seven hundred and forty-nine cannon-balls in the conflict; and her captain was hurt in the foot,

though he did not quit the deck during the whole of the engagement. In June, 1800, Sir Edward Berry conveyed the queen and part of the royal family of Naples, from Palermo to Leghorn; for which he received a gold box set with brilliants, inclosing a diamond ring, with an autograph letter of thanks, from her majesty. The Foudroyant having proceeded to Minorca, to refit, Sir Edward returned to England in the Princess Charlotte frigate; and, during the remainder of the war, commanded the Ruby, of sixty-four guns, stationed in the North Sea.

After the renewal of the war, he, in 1805, went, in the Agamemnon, to join Nelson's fleet, and succeeded in doing so just before the battle of Trafalgar; though, in his passage out, he found himself, one night, in the midst of the Rochefort squadron; from which he contrived to escape by his very superior seamanship. On the 6th of February, 1806, he assisted Sir J. Duckworth in discomfiting a French squadron off St. Domingo; and, having caused a seventyfour to strike her colours, he proceeded to attack another ship, when that which had surrendered to him re-hoisted her colours, and was a second time taken. This circumstance caused an unpleasant altercation after the action; but the committee of the Patriotic Fund, at Lloyd's, presented him with a sword of the value of one hundred guineas, and with three silver vases, commemorative of the three great battles in which he had been engaged. During his continuance in the West Indies, he contributed to the capture of a French brig of eighteen guns, and of a privateer of seventeen guns and one hundred and fifteen men.

On the 12th of December, 1806, he obtained a patent of baronetage, as Sir Edward Berry, of Catton, in the county of Norfolk. In the autumn of 1811, he was appointed to the Sceptre, of seventy-four guns; from which, in 1812, he was removed into the Barfleur, ninety-eight, and again sent to the Mediterranean under Lord Exmouth. In December, 1813, Sir Edward was appointed to the Royal Sovereign yacht; in the following year, he attended the allied monarchs on their visit to the fleet, at Spithead; and he was afterwards appointed to the Royal George.

On the 2nd of January, 1815, he was nominated a K. C. B.; on the 12th of August, 1819, he was made a colonel of marines; and, on the 19th of July, 1821, he became a rear-admiral of the blue.

The subject of this memoir was the only officer in his majesty's navy who had the honour of three medals; having commanded a line-of-battle ship in the battles of the Nile, Trafalgar, and St. Domingo. He married, on the 12th of December, 1797, his first cousin, Louisa,

SIR PULTENEY MALCOLM attained to post rank in the navy in 1794; and on the 14th of November, the same year, he was commissioned to the Fox frigate; and, early in 1795, convoyed a fleet of merchantmen to the Mediterranean. He afterwards served at Quebec and in the North Seas, and was intrusted with a convoy to the East Indies, where he made prize of La Modeste, of twenty guns. Towards the end of the year 1797, he was stationed in the China Seas, under the orders of Captain Edward Cooke, of La Sybille, forty-four; and both ships, on the 13th of January, 1798, entered the Bay of Manilla, with their vessels so completely disguised, that the Spaniards, imagining them to be French frigates, sent off several boats to them, with officers of rank and offers of assistance. The Spaniards were detained on board, but treated with the greatest hospitality, and were all released after the English had brought out the gun-boats and feluccas which lay in the bay. Shortly afterwards, Captain Malcolm made a fruitless attack on the settlement of Sambangen, on the island of Majindinao, and afterwards steered for Pollock Bay, where, by his orders, a party of men scoured the woods, burnt the villages, and captured the chief of the natives; as no account could be obtained of eleven Englishmen who had gone on shore for water. In the succeeding year, those who had survived were delivered up, through the interference of the Sultan of Mindanao, who was presented with £1500 for his services. On

the 18th of June, 1798, Captain Malcolm was commissioned to the Suffolk, the flag-ship of Vice-admiral Rainier, commander-in-chief on the East India station; and, subsequently, to the Victorious, where he continued until the termination of the war.

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Early in 1804, he commanded the Royal Sovereign, and afterwards the Kent and Renown, in succession. In 1805, he served in the Donegal, under Nelson, in his pursuit to the West Indies of the French and Spanish fleets; and afterwards formed part of Admiral Calder's squadron, ordered off Cadiz to reinforce Collingwood. He next repaired to Gibraltar, to have his ship refitted, but learning that the enemy had put to sea, he departed on the 22nd of October, and made for the scene of action. arrived in time to capture the Rayo, and to signalize himself by his humane exertions to save the lives of several wounded French prisoners, who, in a fit of frenzy, had cut the cables of the Berwick, in which they were situated. About two hundred men, however, perished, who could not be got off the ship before she went to pieces on the rock of St. Lucar. Afterwards, during the storm, Captain Malcolm, in the Donegal, repeatedly examined the whole coast between Lagos Bay and Cadiz, to assist any vessels he might find in distress; and besides the number of lives he had saved, carried into Gibraltar the Bahama, one of the finest line-of-battle ships in the Spanish navy, which he found deserted near St. Lucar. After these events, the

Donegal was employed, under Sir John T. Duckworth, off Cadiz, with whom it afterwards went, in pursuit of the Rochefort squadron, to the West Indies. In this expedition, Captain Malcolm served in an engagement off St. Domingo, on the 6th of February, 1806, and in that action captured the Jupiter; the Donegal's loss amounting to twelve men killed and thirty-three wounded. On his passage home with the prizes, Le Brave, seventy-four, one of the captured ships, foundered; but he had taken measures previously to save the persons on board from shipwreck. On his return home, he was presented with a gold medal for his bel aviour in this action; received the thanks of the house of lords and commons; and a vase of the value of £100 from the Patriotic Fund. Continuing in the Donegal, he was next attached to the main fleet under Lord Gambier, and in April, 1809, had the charge of a squadron employed on a cruising expedition. Subsequently to this, he had the direction of the blockade of Cherburg; and in November, 1810, his squadron attacked two frigates under the batteries of La Hogue, both of which were driven on shore in consequence of the proceedings of himself and of the captains under his orders.

The Donegal was put out of commission in 1811, and Captain Malcolm was appointed to the Royal Oak, seventyfour, and, in the same year, was appointed colonel of marines. In 1813, he was made rear-admiral of the blue; and on the 1st of June, 1814, hoisted his flag, and sailed for North America, with the land forces under the command of Brigadier-general Ross. In the unsuccessful attempt subsequently made upon New Orleans, he directed the landing

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of the English army, and received the unqualified commendations of the commander-in-chief for the zeal with which he performed his several duties. On his return to England, he found that he had been rewarded with the order of the Bath, and, shortly after his arrival, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the squadron under orders to co-operate with the Duke of Wellington and the British allies against Napoleon Buonaparte, after his escape from Elba. the end of the campaign he received the thanks of his grace, whom, in 1797, he had carried, in the Fox, from the Cape of Good Hope to Bengal; and, in 1808, Captain Malcolm had escorted the troops of Sir Arthur Wellesley from Cork to Portugal. Early in 1816, Sir Pulteney Malcolm succeeded Sir George Cockburn in the command of St. Helena; and, in the course of frequent interviews with Napoleon, received the accounts of the ex-emperor's own life from the mouth of the illustrious exile. He quitted the island in July, 1817. On the 19th of July, 1821, he was made viceadmiral of the blue; and, on the decease of King George the Fourth, was flag officer in the Mediterranean.

On January 18th, 1809, he was married to Clementina, eldest daughter of the Hon. W. F. Elphinstone, the niece of Lord Keith, and cousin of the Hon. Admiral Fleming. Admiral Malcolm blended the finest feelings of humanity with the truest courage; and though he contended against an unsubdued enemy with unremitting energy, his foe, when vanquished, became the object of his sympathetic clemency. In private life, he has the reputation of being an amiable man; and Napoleon Buonaparte said of him, that few men had so prepossessing a manner and exterior.

THIS officer, youngest son of the late Right Honourable Charles Yorke, Lordchancellor of England, went, on the 15th of February, 1780, on board the Duke, of ninety-eight guns, as a midshipman. He afterwards served in the Formidable, under Lord Rodney, to

whom he acted as aide-de-camp in the battles fought off Guadaloupe, on the 9th and 12th of April, 1782; after which, on his return to England, Mr. Yorke was appointed, in succession, to the Assistance, on the American station; and the Salisbury, in which he acted as