with convoy as Midshipman of the Melampus 36, which frigate returned home and was paid off 23 June, 1802. In the following Nov. he joined the Leda 38, Capts. Jas. Hardy and Robt. Honyman, under whom he served as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, Acting-Lieutenant, and Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 27 Sept. 1806 and 28 April, 1807), until wrecked, near the entrance of Milford Haven, 31 Jan. 1808. He consequently, during that period, came into frequent contact with the Boulogne flotilla – assisted at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806 – was present at the capture, 21 Feb. and 4 March following, of the Rolla brig and Volontaire frigate, in Table Bay – attended Sir Home Popham’s ensuing expedition to the Rio de la Plata – served in the same year with the boats at the destruction of a brigantine off Monte Video – participated in the operations of 1807 against Copenhagen – and was at the taking of L’Apropos French privateer of 16 guns and 70 men. In May, 1808, Mr. Lascelles received an appointment to the Venerable 74, Capt. Andrew King, lying in the Downs. He was next, for several months of 1810, employed in the Saturn 74, Capt. Wm. Cumberland, on the Baltic station, whence excessive fatigue obliged him to invalid; and he lastly, from 10 Sept. 1812, until advanced to the rank of Commander 27 Aug. 1814, served in the Channel and Mediterranean on board the Mulgrave 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling.
He married, 30 Nov. 1830, Henrietta, second daughter of Sam. Higham, Esq., of Torrington Square, London, by whom he has issue one daughter.
LASH. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
James Lash entered the Navy 31 Jan. 1810; passed his examination in 1817, and obtained his commission 29 Jan. 1828. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, 28 Dec. 1839, Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of the late J. Harris, Esq., of Pentonville, and was left a widower 27 June, 1841.
LASTON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 25; h-p., 16.)
Samuel Hornigold Laston entered the Navy, in Sept. 1806, as Midshipman, on board the Spartan 38, Capts. Geo. Castle and Jahleel Brenton. Continuing in that ship until April, 1809, he served in her boats at the cutting out of a vessel under the batteries of Civita Vecchia, participated in an attempt made to cut off a convoy under the batteries of Leghorn, and was present in an attack upon a disguised armed polacre off Nice, on which occasion he brought off the barge and pinnace with only three men, and received a severe contusion. On leaving the Spartan Mr. Laston became Master’s Mate of the Bustard 10, Capts. John Duff Markland, Chas. Borough Strong, and Lord John Hay, with whom, it appears, he was for a period of six years employed on the Mediterranean, West India, and Lisbon stations. While so attached he assisted, as Acting-Lieutenant, at the capture and destruction of some gun-boats under the Castle of Duino, cooperated in the defence of Sicily, and was often engaged with enemy’s gun-vessels in the Faro of Messina. His official advancement to the rank he now holds took place 15 Feb. 1815. He shortly afterwards joined the Bombay 74, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Chas. Vinicombe Penrose; and in the following year, we are informed, he was present at the bombardment of Algiers. His last appointments were- – in 1824 and 1830, as a Supernumerary, to the Ramillies and Talavera, Coast Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – and, 18 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard, in which he remained until the close of 1839. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
LA TOUCHE. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Ashley La Touche is one of the 14 children of the late Peter La Touche, Esq., of Bellevue, co. Wicklow, by the Hon. Charlotte Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Viscount Hawarden. His grandfather, the Right Hon. David La Touche, of Marlay, co. Dublin, was for many years Member in the Irish Parliament for his own borough of Newcastle and other places.
This officer entered the Navy 3 Feb. 1825; served as Midshipman of the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, at the bombardment of the Morea Castle in 1828; and passed his examination in 1832. Becoming Mate of the Imogene, Capt. Price Blackwood, he proceeded in that ship to China, where he assisted, in 1834, in forcing the passage of the Boca Tigris. For his services on the coast of Syria and at St. Jean d’Acre in the Revenge 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, Mr. La Touche was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His appointments haye since been, on the North America and West India station – 21 April, 1841, as Additional, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey – 27 Aug. 1841, to the Vestal 26, Capt. John Parker, with whom he returned home and was paid off in 1842 – 19 Sept. 1843, again as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Adam – 1 Jan. 1844, as First, to the Scylla 16, Capt. Robt. Sharpe – and, 17 Nov. 1844, in a similar capacity, to the Imaum 72, bearing the broad pendants of Commodores Alex. Renton Sharpe, Dan. Pring, and Geo. Robt. Lambert at Jamaica, where he is still employed. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
LAUGHARNE. (Capt., 1832. f-p., 24; h-p., 25.)
Thomas Lamb Polden Laugharne was born in June, 1786.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 April, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Van Tromp 50, Capt. Rich. Hill, on the Irish station; removed, as Midshipman, in March, 1799, to the Agincourt 64, flagship at Newfoundland of Hon. Wm. Waldegrave; and, from 1800 until April, 1805, served on the Home and Halifax stations in the Active 38, Capt. John Giffard, Theseus 74, Capt. John Bligh, and Cambrian 40, Capts. Wm. Bradley and John Poo Beresford. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Bermuda 10, Capt. Keilly, and, after a servitude of seven months in that vessel, proceeded in the Driver sloop, Capt. John Simpson, to the West Indies, where, on joining the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Hon. Alex. Cochrane, he took part in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. In the course of the following month he received an order to act as Lieutenant of the Unicorn 32, Capt. Lucius Ferdinand Hardyman, in which frigate (being confirmed to her on 8 of the following Aug.) he continued to serve until June, 1809, witnessing during that period the siege of Monte Video, the embarkation of the army after the battle of Corunna, and the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads. Sailing next for the Cape of Good Hope in the Camel store-ship, Mr. Laugharne there, in Nov. 1809, joined the Nereide 36, Capt. Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, under whom, it appears, he was present in a dashing attack made on the enemy’s batteries and troops at Jacotel, in the Mauritius, 1 May, 1810, as also at the capture, in the following July, of the Ile de Bourbon. On 13 Sept. 1810, being then Senior of the Boadicea 38, Capt. Josias Rowley, we find him recommended to the favourable notice of the Commander-in-Chief for the steadiness and zeal he manifested at the re-capture of H.M.S. Africaine in the presence of two French frigates; and on 21 of the same month he presents himself to our notice as contributing to the capture, after a spirited action of 10 minutes, and a loss to the Boadicea of 2 men wounded, and to the enemy of 9 killed and 15 wounded, of La Vénus, of 44 guns and 380 men, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hamelin, and of her prize the Ceylon 32. Being again strongly recommended for his able assistance in taking charge of and conducting into port both the Africaine and La Vénus, Lieut. Laugharne was promoted, 11 Oct. 1810, to the acting-command of the Otter sloop, and ordered to England with despatches announcing Vice-Admiral Ber-
