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1242  of an hour and 20 minutes, which terminated in the beating off by that vessel of a French national schooner of far superior force. On the following morning, however, the was captured by a French frigate; but in two days afterwards the British were given up, it being understood that they were not to serve again during the war. We may here mention, that, on the ship being captured, Mr. Wall had with great presence of mind destroyed the signals. In April, 1813, the condition upon which he had been restored to liberty having been set aside by the Admiralty, he went back to the in the capacity of Master’s Mate; and he continued to serve in her in the Channel until transferred, in the following July, to the  20, Capt. Geo. Henderson, fitting at for the East Indies. Owing to a severe illness brought on by fatigue in stowing the tanks, Mr. Wall, the only officer at the time on board, was under the necessity, on reaching Portsmouth, of being sent to Haslar Hospital. Restored to health, he joined, in Sept. 1813, the 10, Capt. Edw. Saurin; under whom he was for seven months employed in the Channel, chiefly in convoying and in chasing privateers. From 15 June until 16 Aug. 1815 his name was borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the 74, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, guard-ship at the Nore; and on 7 Sept. ensuing he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He filled an appointment in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, from 27 Dec. 1830 until 23 March, 1831. Since 28 Aug. 1834, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard in Ireland. His exertions at various periods in saving, and in endeavouring to save, life have obtained the thanks of the Inspector-General. In the execution of his duty he has been much hurt; once indeed so severely that his constitution has been ever since impaired.

Lieut. Wall, now a widower, married, 10 Oct. 1816, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Willes, of co. Essex, by whom he had issue six children. – Messrs. Chard.

 WALL. 

is son of Major Adam Wall, who was killed at the battle of Waterloo in command of the 4th Brigade of Artillery.

This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1819, on board the 28, then on the Newfoundland station. Removing in 1823 to the 46, Capt. Sir John Phillimore, he sailed in that ship in the following year for Cape Coast Castle; where, uniting in the warfare against the Ashantees, he landed and received a severe gun-shot wound in the right knee while engaged on picket duty. In 1825 he, and the First-Lieutenant of the, alone earned the thanks of both Houses of Parliament and of the Board of Trade for their exertions in saving 107 sail of merchantmen, which had been cast on shore in a heavy gale in the Bay of Gibraltar. After he left the he served in succession on board the  76,  80,  78,  74, Ocean again, and  42. While so employed he assisted in restoring Morea to the Greeks, and in affording support, on the coast of Catalonia, to the interests of Queen Christina during the Carlist revolution. From 4 May, 1840, until 1842 he held an appointment in the Coast Guard. Although he had passed his examination 4 Oct. 1826 he was not promoted to the rank of Lieutenant until 23 Nov. 1841. He served in the 42, troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey, from 12 Nov. 1842 until 1845; and from 1 Nov. in the latter year until 1848 he was again employed in the Coast Guard.

Lieut. Wall is married to a distant relative of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Sam. Hood, K.B, – Messrs. Stilwell.

 WALLACE. 

entered the Navy, in 1794, as a Volunteer, on board the 74, Capts. Sir John Orde and John Brown. He removed in the following year to the, Capt. Eaton Childe; in 1796 he was employed in the Channel and Mediterranean, under the flag of Sir J. Orde, in the 98; and, after serving for about two years in the Channel and North Sea as Midshipman in the  98, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, and 26, Capt. John Mackellar, he removed with the latter officer, in March, 1801, to the  32, commanded next by Capt. Walter Bathurst. While attached to the Jamaica he escorted a fleet of merchantmen to and from the Baltic, aided in making one or two prizes, and united in compelling a large privateer, commanded by the famous Blackeman, to strike her colours. In the he was at first stationed off Boulogne and Calais, and then in the East Indies; where he was nominated, 30 March, 1805, Acting-Lieutenant of the  38, Capts. Hood Hanway Christian, Gilbert Heathcote, and Edw. Ratsey. He was officially promoted 24 Oct. 1807; and was subsequently appointed, on the Home station – 23 Dec. 1807, to the sloop, Capt. Wm. Barnham Rider – in Dec. 1808, to the Sea Fencibles at Teignmouth – 18 April, 1810, for 11 months, to the 10, Capt. Thos. Fife – 24 Sept. 1811, to the 10, Capts. Tompkinson and Garrett – and, 24 Feb., 15 Sept., and 1 Oct. 1814 (he had left the in April, 1813), to the  74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, and 20 and  24, both commanded by Capt. Hew Steuart. The latter ship he quitted in May, 1815. He accepted his present rank 24 July, 1844.

 WALLACE. 

died in 1847.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the bomb, Capt. John Sykes; previously to accompanying whom in the  sloop to the Mediterranean, he twice, in July and Aug. 1804, assisted at the bombardment of Havre de Grace. Between 1806 and June, 1815, he was employed on the Home, Brazilian, West India, and North American stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton,  32, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, 50, Capts. John Sykes and Matthew Buckle, 20, Capt. Hon. Wm. Henry Percy, 14, Lieut.-Commanders David Hope and Wm. Hamilton, and 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott. In the, after escorting the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley from Cork to Portugal, he assisted at the capture, 3 Feb. 1809, of L’Iris French national ship, pierced for 32, but mounting only 24 guns, whose resistance was maintained until she had herself suffered a loss of 2 men killed and 8 wounded, and the , besides being materially damaged in masts, spars, sails, and rigging, of 2 wounded. He belonged to the when that vessel, having had 25 of her men killed and 24 wounded in an unsuccessful attack upon Fort Bowyer, Mobile, was set on fire and destroyed to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, 15 Sept. 1814. On leaving the he took up a commission bearing date 8 Feb. 1815. He did not afterwards go afloat.

 WALLER. 

died 15 July, 1845, at St. Helier’s, Jersey, aged 63.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Herbert Sawyer in the Channel; served as Midshipman, on the Newfoundland and Home stations, in the  and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. John Manley,  38, Capt. Mark Robinson,  36, Capt. Velterers Cornewall Berkeley, and  74, Capt. Archibald Collingwood Dickson; and was made Lieutenant, 27 May, 1797, into the  sloop, Capt. Lord Jas. O’Bryen, attached to the fleet in the Channel; where we find him, in Oct. 1798 and