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HALL. port of Cadiz, where he was confirmed, on 10 June in the same year, into his former ship, the, Capts. Thos. Sotheby and Wm. Cuming. During the last four years of the French revolutionary war we find him further employed, on the last mentioned, and on the Mediterranean, Channel, and West India stations, in the and, both flag-ships of his old Captain, then Rear-Admiral Frederick, and  80, Capts. Sir Henry Trollope, Rich. Dacres, and Sir Edm. Nagle. Having spent a few months of the short-lived peace in the 38, commanded in the North Sea by Capt. Thos. Manby, Mr. Hall was subsequently appointed – in Dec. 1803, to the charge of a Signal Station at North Yarmouth – 3 July, 1805, as Senior, to the sloop, Capt. Wm. Standway Parkinson, employed in the Downs – 8 Oct. 1805, to the command of the lugger, on the same station – 22 May, 1806, and 18 Oct. 1807, again as First, to the,  64, Capt. Robt. Campbell, and 98, bearing the flag of Lord Gambier, in the former of which ships (besides commanding her boats, in conjunction with those of the, at the cutting-out and destruction of several vessels at Ebeltoff, in Jutland) he contributed to the reduction of Copenhagen – 30 Nov. 1807, to the command of the , a Danish prize lying in the river Medway – 20 May, 1808, again to the , Capt. E. Campbell, attached to the force in the North Sea – in Jan. 1809, to the Impress service at Dundee, where he remained until Nov. 1810 – and, 16 April, 1811, as First, to the  74, commanded by his friend Capt. Campbell, on the Baltic and Channel stations. He obtained a second promotal commission 12 Aug. 1812; and accepted his present rank 5 Nov. 1846. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

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entered the Navy, 6 April, 1806, as Midshipman, on board the 50, Capt. Brian Hodgson, in which ship, with the exception of a few months passed in 1806 in the  sloop, Capt. Sam. Jackson, he served until March, 1808, when, having previously attended the expedition to Copenhagen, and participated in several skirmishes with the batteries and flotilla on the French coast, he joined the 18, Capt. Geo. Acklom. During a continuance of nearly six years in that vessel he made surveys of different ports and harbours in the Kattegat, Baltic, Sound, Great and Little Belt, &c., all of which were transmitted to the Hydrographical Office at the Admiralty by Sir Geo. Hope, the Captain of the Fleet. On one occasion he came into contact with the Danish gunboats at Fladstrand, and in 1809 he was present at the capture of the island of Anholdt. In the summers of 1811 and 1812 we find him cruizing in command of a tender off the ports of Pillau and Danzig against the enemy’s privateers, from which service he was removed for the express purpose of surveying the river Dwina, preparatory to the employment of English and Russian gun-boats at the defence of Riga, where, during the absence of the Flag-Lieutenant, he officiated on shore as aide-de-camp to the present Sir Thos. Byam Martin, who recommended him in consequence to the notice of the Admiralty. In the winter of 1812-13, after an officer superior to him in rank had failed in the attempt, Mr. Hall was selected from the squadron, then frozen up at Carlskrona, to be the bearer of despatches from Mr. Thornton, the British Minister at Stockholm, to Lord Cathcart, who was at the time at the Imperial head-quarters of the Russian army in Poland. The gun-brig having been cut out of the ice to convey him across the Baltic, he landed on the coast of Prussia, and, after travelling by a circuitous route through 500 miles of country, occupied in many parts by the enemy, into whose hands he was in continual danger of falling and being treated as a spy, he succeeded in five days in accomplishing the object of his mission. On his return with despatches from Lord Cathcart to Mr. Thornton he was again officially recommended both by that nobleman and by his Commodore, Capt. Acklom. During the remaining nine months of 1813 he acted as aide-de-camp to H.R.H. the Duke of Wurtemberg at the siege of Danzig, with a view of keeping up the communication between the Russian army and the Anglo-Russian squadron blockading that port. The services he performed during that period procuring him a further recommendation from Lord Cathcart and Capt. Acklom, as well as from the Duke and from the Russian Admiral, he was promoted on his return to England to a Lieutenancy, 15 Dec. 1813, in the 18, Capt. Henry Bourne, with whom he served on the North America and West India station until 25 Jan. 1815. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Hall (who appears to have been employed on many important missions by his late Majesty when Duke of Clarence) married, 21 Sept. 1826, Sarah Miles, daughter of the late John Smith, Esq., of Liverpool. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

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entered the Navy, 13 Feb. 1800, as Midshipman, on board the 110, Capt. Sir Thos. Troubridge, bearing the flag in the Channel of Earl St. Vincent; and, from Aug. 1802 until June, 1 806, was employed, on the Home and West India stations, in the and  frigates, both commanded by Capt. Chas. Stuart. He then joined the 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, who, on 11 of the following Sept., appointed him Lieutenant of the 14, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart – an act which the Admiralty confirmed by commission dated 29 Oct. in the same year. While cruizing in the latter vessel in the Gulf of Paria, Mr. Hall, on being detached in a prize schooner with 25 men, succeeded, in a very cool and brave manner, in boarding and carrying, on 6 June, 1807, although not without a mutual loss, the Mercedes privateer, mounting 2 carriage-guns and 2 swivels, and having on board a crew of 30 men (an exploit for which he was highly recommended to notice); and on 12 of the ensuing Sept. he had joint charge of the boats with Lieut. Cotgrave, when they captured El Rosario schooner, of 1 gun and 34 men. Invaliding home from the West Indies in Nov. 1807, he afterwards served, from Jan. 1808 until Dec. 1811, and from July, 1812, until Sept. 1813, on board the 74, Capts. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin and Donald Campbell, and 50, bearing the flag at Leith of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway. In the former ship he was employed embarking the army after the battle of Corunna, and next in the expedition to the Walcheren. His last appointment was, in April, 1820, to the Coast Guard service. He accepted his present rank 3 Aug. 1841.

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entered the Navy, 8 Feb. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Robt. Moorsom, bearing the flag afterwards of Vice-Admiral Thos. Macnamara Russell in the North Sea and Baltic. Although the, upon whose books he was borne until Jan. 1809, formed part of the victorious fleet in the action off Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805, we do not believe this officer had the good fortune to be present in her on the occasion. He subsequently, however, in 1807, assisted at the capture of Heligoland. From the period of his quitting the until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 21 March, 1812, Mr. Hall was employed on the Guernsey, Madeira, Newfoundland and West India stations, in the  sloop, Capts. Corbet Jas. D’Auvergne and Hen. Thos. Davies, frigate, Capt. Rushworth, and  74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey. He was then successively appointed, 5 May, 1812, 14 Jan. 1813, and 2 Sept. 1814, to the sloop,  again, and Nereus 32,