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Show Lord Exmouth's Pension. Lord Exmouth has commuted his perpetual per-petual pension of 2,000 a year for the lump sum of 53.S90, representing 26 years' purchase. The original recipient, the famous admiral, won a baronetcy toward the close of the last century by the capture of a French frigate under Itriking circumstances, obtaining a bar-jny bar-jny later, and for the bombardment of Algiers and the destruction of its piratical pirat-ical trade a viscounty and the pension in question. London Letter. |