HUME, Francis *,-was, on the 24th of July 1713, appointed captain of the Triton's Prize. In 1718 he commanded the Scarborough, a fmall frigate employed on the West India station, where he had the good fortune to capture a very ftout pirate fhip, mounting eighteen guns, which had long infefted thofe feas; an action, especially in the time of peace, which more particularly deferves recording from the great scarcity of events which arife, during fuch a period, within the limits of our accounts. In the year 1723 he was appointed captain of the Bedford, a third rate of feventy guns, ordered to be equipped at Portsmouth. He does not appear to have retained this command for any confiderable length of time; nor have we any fubfequent information, except that, on account of fome private difcontent, the cause of which we are totally ignorant of, he put a period to his own exiftence by fhooting himself. This melancholy event happened in Scotland on the 8th of February 1753.

JONES, Arthur,-was another of the many officers promoted to the rank of poft captains on the 1ft of January 1712-13. He was appointed to the Lizard. He never appears to have been invested with any command more confequential than that of a frigate, or to have been employed on any memorable fervice. He died at Barbadoes on the 23d of April 1731, being at that time commander of the Phoenix.

LLOYD, William, was appointed captain of the Dunkirk Prize. This gentleman, as well as the former, never had any higher command than that of a frigate. He was unfortunately drowned, at Harwich, on the 12th of May 1723, his boat overfetting with him when going on board the Hawke floop of war.

MARWOOD, Thomas,-was appointed to the Greyhound. He continued almost conftantly employed as

*He was the defcendant of a very ancient and honourable family in North Britain, indifcriminately called Home, or Hume. Gordoa remarks, that though the firname of this noble family is certainly local, yet there are few in Scotland can boast of so high and princely an origin as that of Home, being a branch of the great and illuftrious houfe of Dunbar, earls of March, who were undoubtedly fprung from the Saxon kings of England, and the princes and earls of Northum berland.

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captain of a frigate; but having been unhappily guilty of fome irregularities in his conduct, was brought to a courtmartial, at Woolwich, on the 10th of January 1719, and fentenced to pay a fine equivalent to three months pay. He continued, however, to be employed, being immediately reinstated in his command. He died at Jamaica on the 5th of September 1731, being then commander of the Lyme.

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MIDDLETON, Sir Hugh,-was the great-grandfon of fir Hugh Middleton of London, baronet, fo created on the 22d of October 1662. The title appears to have defcended to him through fir William Middleton, the third fon of fir Hugh, whom we take to have been the grandfather of the gentleman whom we are about to give fome account of.

Having entered into the navy at an early age, he was, after paffing through the feveral fubordinate ranks, appointed captain of the Medway's Prize; and afterwards. progreffively commanded feveral frigates, in particular the Lowestoffe, of thirty-two guns, in the year 1717, one of the ships ordered for the Baltic under the command of fir George Byng. Not having paid that attention to the orders he received from the board of admiralty at the time he commanded the Pearl, he was brought to a courtmartial on the 6th of October 1727, and fentenced to be difmiffed the fervice "for mifbehaviour and neglect of

*He found out the filver mines in North Wales: but what renders his name famous to pofterity is, the undertaking to draw a trench, or cut of water, from the fprings of Amwell and Chadwell, near Ware, in Hertfordshire, to the north part of the city of London, (now called the New River); but confuming a fair eftate in the charge and expence of this great work, whereby he was difabled to accomplish the fame, the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London attempted it, and in order thereto, obtained an act of parliament, A. D. 1605, which fince has been confirmed, with new powers, by other acts of parliament. The fame not only brings in a vaft fum, annually, to the prefent proprietors; but is of vaft ufe to the city and fuburbs of London, who are chiefly ferved with this water, at an annual rent. Sir Hugh gave a fhare in the river water to the company of goldfmiths, for the benefit of the poor members of it, which is greatly advanced fince his death. The dividend of one half year (in 1704) amounted to 1341. which dividends are cuftomarily beftowed upon the faid poor at 26s.

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duty." In Mr. Hardy's lift of naval officers, he is faid to have been reftored to the fervice, which we cannot dif prove; but we have not the least authority to fay he was ever again employed. A manuscript memorandum we have met with concerning him informs us, a pension of forty pounds a year was granted him in confequence of his extreme poverty after his difmiffion, ás above stated. The precife time of his death is unknown; but certainly did not happen till after the year 1740.

NURSE, Edward,-was appointed captain of the Fox frigate. He was difmiffed the fervice, but in what year, or on what occafion, is not known; nor is the time of his death any where given.

OBRIEN, Christopher,-of Ennystemmon, otherwise Newhall, in the county of Clare, efq. was a collateral defcendant from the very ancient and honourable Irish ftock, whence the earls of Inchiquin and Thomond have derived their origin *. He was appointed captain of the Succefs ftorefhip, on the 11th of April 1713. In the following year he is faid to have gone over to Ruffia, where he entered into the service of the Czar, who received him with the greatest attention, and almost immediately created him a rear-admirál. He returned, indeed, to England in a few years; not improbably on account of the frequent indications of a rupture between the courts of Mofcow and London.

In the year 1718 we find him commanding the Rippon, of fixty guns, one of the fleet fent to the Mediterranean under the command of fir George Byng, with whom he was confequently a participator in the memorable victory obtained over the Spanish fleet off Sicily. On his return from thence he was, in 1721, appointed to the Effex, a fhip of the fame force, which was ordered to Lifbon as one of the fleet intended to be fent thither under the command of fir Charles Wager; but which, in confequence of the fubmiffion of the Portuguese, never put to fea. In 1726

The family of O'Brien, one of the most ancient and noble in the kingdom of Ireland, is faid to derive its defcent from Hiberius, or Heber, eldeft fon of Milefius, king of Spain, who was born in Egypt, and, with his brother Heremon, began their reign jointly over Ireland in the year of the world 2704.

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commanded the Yarmouth, of feventy guns, one of the fleet fent into the Baltic against that very nation, under whofe banners captain O'Brien had formerly enlisted. No hoftilities, however, took place. His next appointment was to the Dreadnought, of fixty guns, one of fifteen Thips of the line ordered to be immediately got ready for fea in the month of July 1728. He did not long remain in this ship, being promoted, early in the following year, to the Kent, of feventy guns, one of the fleet kept, on various occafions, in a conftant ftate of equipment for two or three years. In 1731, when it at laft put to fea in order to fecure the Infant Don Carlos in the poffeffion of his dominions in Italy, Mr. O'Brien proceeded thither in the fame fhip. Not long after his return to England he is faid to have again entered into the fervice of Ruffia, which quitting a fecond time, he refumed once more his original station of captain in the British navy, being appointed, in 1742; to the Princefs Royal, a fecond rate. In this command he died on the 11th of February 1743. OWEN, William, was, on the 1st of January, appointed captain of the Solebay. We have nothing to add relative to this gentleman, but that he died in England on the 14th of Auguft 1722, being at that time commander of the Ipfwich.

PACE, John,was, on the 27th of February 1713, appointed captain of the Triton's Prize, but is not otherwife mentioned.

PARKER, Chriftopher,-was a gentleman of a very refpectable and ancient family in Ireland. On January 1, 1712-13, he was promoted to the command of the Speedwell; but fo undistinguished were his feveral services and employments, that we have no information concerning them till the year 1739, when he was appointed captain of the Torbay, of eighty guns. In 1740 we find him captain of the fame fhip, which was one of the fleet equipped for Channel fervice, and put under the command of fir John Norris. On its return into port, and fubfequent order to fail to the Weft Indies with fir Chaloner Ogle on the expedition against Carthagena, captain Parker quitted the command of the Torbay; and we find no mention made of his having held any naval employment or commiffion after that time. On the 1ft of September VOL. IV. 1747:

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1747, he totally retired from the service with the rank of a rear-admiral on half pay. He died in Henry-street, Dublin, on the rft of February 1765, having reached a very advanced age.

PARR, John, was appointed to the Penzance; and is no farther mentioned than as having died, in England, on the 23d of May 1742.

POOLE, Charles,—was made captain of the Newport; and is equally unnoticed, except that he is faid to have died on the 26th of January 1738. A MS.memorandum states him to have died one year earlier.

ST. LOO, John, -- was appointed to the Valeur. After which he at different periods had the command of feveral frigates, which, owing to the particular circumstances of the times, were employed on services that have paffed unnoticed, with the exceptions, that, in 1727, he commanded the Ludlow Caftle on the Newfoundland ftation *; and, in 1729, was captain of the York, of fixty guns, one of the fleet collected, under fir Charles Wager, at Spithead, but quitted that ship in the following year. In 1731, he was appointed to the Experiment, a fhip of twenty guns, ordered to be equipped for the Weft Indies to protect the commerce of that part of the world from the infults and depredations daily com mitted on it by the Spanish guarda coftas. We find no mention made of him after this time till the year 1745, when he commanded the Princess Royal, a fecond rate. On the 15th of July 1747, he was put on the fuperannuated lift with the rank and half pay of a rear-admiral; a comfortable and honourable retirement, which he enjoyed till his death, on the 28th of December 1757.

SAUNDERSON, or SANDERSON, Sir William, -was the fon of captain Ralph Sanderson, of whom we have given a fhort account, Vol. I. page 314. He is by many perfons confounded with, and fuppofed to be the fame perfon with the fir William Saunderson of whom fome mention is alfo made, Vol. II. p. 192;

* In Gazette, No. 6665, is an address presented by this gentleman to his majefty king George the Second, on his acceffion to the throne, from the inhabitants of Placentia, and the several fettlements on the fouthern coal of Newfoundland.

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