WE know not how to commence a fresh Volume of our labours with more self-satisfaction, than in presenting the Public with some particulars of Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson, a gallant Officer, whose distinguished Services point him out as an object of eulogy and emulation, in that Profession of which he is a dignified ornament.—He is one of those brave Men — the proudest boast of Britain — who, by their glorious exertions, have increased the fame of their Country; have seized, for themselves; a wreath of perrenial verdure; and whose names and virtues will live in the remembrance of a grateful posterity.

Thomas Boulden, now Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson, it will be recollected by many of our Readers, is the Nephew of that able Officer and worthy Man, the deceased Captain Edward Thompson, whose extraordinary merit, as a Seaman and as a Writer, long since obtained for him the most honourable notice in the biographical department of our Chronicle. For young Boulden, the relationship was peculiarly fortunate; as to the advantages which it afforded him must, in a great measure, be ascribed the conspicuous figure he has made in his Profession.

The Subject of the present Memoir is a Native of Kent. His Father, Mr. Boulden, married Miss Thompson, the Sister of the late Mr. Thompson, who had then attained only the rank of Lieutenant.