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HALL. Capt. Sam. Jackson, stationed in the North Sea and Downs. Between the date of his promotion to the full rank of Lieutenant, 1 May, 1807, and of his elevation to that of Commander, 29 July, 1814, he was next employed in the 74, Capt. Rich. Hen. Alex. Bennett, 38, Capt. Jas. Alex. Gordon, 74, Capt. Peter Halkett,  again, and  98, bearing each the flag of Rear-Admiral R. G. Keats,  74, Capt. Jas. Sanders, 74,  120,  74, all flag-ships of Sir R. G. Keats,  38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, and  74, bearing the flag again of Sir R. G. Keats. Besides visiting the Mediterranean and Newfoundland, Mr. Hall served (while in the ) and was earnestly recommended to notice for his exertions in a battery before Flushing; and he had charge (during his attachment to the and ) of the  gun-brig at the defence of Cadiz, where he was severely wounded. He afterwards, from Oct. 1814 until Jan. 1816, commanded the and  sloops, on the Halifax and Jamaica stations; but has not, since the latter date, been afloat. Commander Hall married, in 1816, Ann, youngest daughter of Peter Churchill, Esq., of Dawlish, co. Devon.

 HALL. 

entered the Navy 25 Sept. 1813; passed his examination in 1820; and, on 23 Dec. 1826, was awarded a commission by the Admiralty in acknowledgment of his meritorious conduct during the war in Ava, where, in the course of the same and the preceding year, he had contributed, in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant, to the destruction of a large 36-gun stockade at Than-ta-bain, the annihilation of numerous fire-rafts and canoes on the river Irawady, and the capture of the formidable fortresses of Donoobew and Mellone. His gallantry at the storming of the stockade at Than-ta-bain, which he was one of the very first to enter, was so conspicuous, that it obtained him the particular notice of the Governor-General of India in Council. Mr. Hall, whose health had latterly become seriously affected, joined, at the period of his promotion, the Slanev 20, Capt. Sam. Thornton, with whom he returned to England and was paid off in May, 1827. His subsequent appointments were – 31 Dec. 1829 and 19 Feb. 1830, to the and  74’s, both commanded on the Coast-Blockade service by Capt. Hugh Pigot – 4 March, 1830, to the  10, Capts. Geo. Woollcombe and Hen. Dundas Trotter, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, whence he invalided in Feb. 1833 – 18 March, 1836, again to the, Capts. Thos. Ball Sulivan and Wm. Bowen Mends, under whom he served the greater part of four years on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations, nearly the whole time as First-Lieutenant – and, 19 March, 1840, also as Senior, to the 84, Capt. Maurice Fred. Fitzhardinge Berkeley. He was promoted, for his services in the latter ship at St. Jean d’Acre, 4 Nov. 1840; but has not been since afloat. – Hallett and Robinson.

 HALL, F.R.S.

entered the Navy, 24 Oct. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Geo. Byng (afterwards Viscount Torrington) and John Tremayne Rodd. While in that ship, of which he became Midshipman 20 Oct. 1813, he assisted at the blockade of various ports in the Channel, North Sea, and Baltic, contributed to the capture of several armed and other vessels, escorted the Prince of Orange to Holland in Nov. 1813, and experienced a furious hurricane in which the Warrior was dismasted, received 11 feet water in her hold, and all but foundered. In Nov. 1815 he became attached to the 10, Capt. Basil Hall, and on his return home in Nov. 1817, after having attended Lord Amherst’s expedition to China, he successively joined the  18, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, cutter,  36, bearing the broad pendant on the coast of Africa of Sir Robt. Mends, and, as Master (warrant dated in 1822 or 3), the 18, Capt. Christ. Knight, on the same station. During the term of his servitude in the, Mr. Hall voluntarily conducted the navigation of a squadron of boats, which effected the capture, although opposed, of a well-armed Portuguese schooner, full of slaves, several of whom were killed; and when in the he took part in the capture of two other slave-vessels. On 30 May, 1823, he obtained an appointment to the 10, Capt. Hon. Geo. Barrington, under whom he made a voyage with despatches to Vera Cruz, and took, in the Bay of Campeachy, the San José, a noted Spanish piratical schooner. Soon after the latter event, which occurred on 18 June, 1824, he nearly lost his life by intrepidly jumping overboard to the rescue of Mr. Price, Captain’s Clerk, who by s6me means had fallen into the sea. The being paid off 25 Sept. 1825, he was subsequently appointed – 7 June, 1826, to the  42, Capt. Lord Byron, in which frigate he went on a special mission to Bermuda – 7 March, 1827, to the  46, Capts. Geo. Fras. Seymour and Hon. Wm. Gordon, employed on various particular services – next, for a few months, to the yacht, Capt. Robt. Gordon – 23 Feb. 1831 to the 50, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, in which ship, under the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Hotham, he witnessed the establishment of King Otho on the throne of Greece, and was afterwards, when off Alexandria, presented, in common with the other officers on board, with a sword by Mehemet All – and, in Aug. 1834, to the 120, lying at Portsmouth, where he continued until the close of 1836. During the next two years Mr. Hall employed himself in studying steam at Glasgow, and in making passages from the Clyde to Ireland, as he also did on the river Mersey. He likewise, for the purpose of obtaining a competent knowledge of ocean steaming, went as an amateur in the British Queen to North America, where he spent some time in voyaging in U.S. steamers on the Hudson and Delaware rivers. In Nov. 1839 he procured command of the Hon.E.I.Co.’s iron war-steamer, and, as the brilliancy of his services in that vessel was officially recognised, and made the subject of future extraordinary reward, we have no hesitation in here introducing them, especially as their omission would involve an exclusion of some of the most important of those achievements which contributed to the ultimate humiliation of the Chinese. In March, 1840, the sailed from Portsmouth for the East Indies, on her passage whither, however, and while endeavouring to double the Cape of Good Hope, the first time indeed the act had ever been attempted by an iron steamer, she was encountered by a succession of terrific gales, and had the misfortune to split amidships on both sides. Escaping destruction by a mere miracle, she eventually arrived in China, where, on 7 Jan. 1841, she commenced her distinguished career by a conspicuous attack on the enemy’s forts at Chuenpee, and the annihilation of 11 powerful war-junks, the flower of the Celestial Navy. In the course of the following day she joined in action with the largest of the Anunghoy forts in the Boca Tigris; and on 26 of the same month, with Capt. Elliot, H.M. plenipotentiary, on board, she was the first steamer that entered the Canton river, preparatory to the several meetings with the High Commissioner Keshen, at all of which her Commander was present. On 23 Feb. we find Mr. Hall attracting the attention of Capt. Herbert, who was on board the at the time, by his co-operative conduct at the destruction of a 20-gun battery at the back of the island of Anunghoy, and by the quick and effectual manner in which he 