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Rh board the Vigo and 74’s, both flag-ships for some time of Rear-Admiral Dixon at Rio Janeiro; on his return whence in the, he was employed, as Acting-Lieutenant, off Flushing, under Capt. Peter Heywood, who, during six months of 1813, caused him to be occupied on shore at South Beveland. He was promoted, after attending on the Allied Sovereigns in the yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. Berry, to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 27 June, 1814; and next employed, from 14 May, 1816, until 13 Nov. 1818, in the 36, Capt. Wm. Elliott, on the West India station. He has since been on half-pay. – J. Woodhead.

 HAMILTON. 

entered the Navy 14 Aug. 1830; passed his examination 19 Feb. 1836; and, after serving for some time in the Mediterranean, as Mate of the 84, Capts. Gep. Mansel and Michael Seymour, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Jan. 1842. His appointments have since been – 15 July 1842, as Additional, to the 110, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen – 4 April, 1843, as First, to the steam-sloop, Capt. Edw. John Carpenter, on the same station, whence he returned towards the close of 1845 – and, 14 Feb. 1846, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, with whom he is now serving. – Goode and Lawrence.

 HAMILTON. 

entered the Navy, in Oct. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board 36, Capts. Stephen G. Church and Robt. Honyman, .stationed in the West Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. 1801. Returning home at the peace on board the brig, Capt. Edm. Saunders, he joined for a short period the 40, Capts. Henry Garrett and John Larmour, lying at Portsmouth. He then served for two years on the Newfoundland and Channel stations in the 50, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Jas. Gambier; and, while next attached, from June, 1804, to Oct. 1806, to the 64, Capts. Fras. Fayerman and John Giffard, visited China, and also the Mediterranean, where he assisted, as Master’s Mate, at the defence of Gaeta. On 26 Dec. 1806, after an intermediate servitude with Capt. Giffard in the 74, off Cadiz, Mr. Hamilton became Acting-Lieutenant of the  74, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, in which ship he continued, until she was burnt, off the Dardanells, 14 Feb. 1807. Being officially promoted on 28 of the following April, he was next appointed, on 18 July in the same year, and 16 Aug. 1809, to 38, Capt. Clotworthy Upton (under whom he contributed to the capture, 16 Aug. 1808, of the French 18-gun sloop Espiègle), and  120, bearing the flag, on the Cork, Channel, Cadiz, and Basque Roads stations, of Admirals Lord Gambier, Fras. Pickmore, and Sir Harry Burrard Neale. While First of the latter ship, he took command of her boats, and of those of the 74, and  38, .and, on 28 Sept. 1810, had the good fortune, by dint of a well-conducted, gallant, and successful attack, to capture two brigs, and destroy a third, lying under the protection of a strong battery at Pointe du Ché, near Rochelle. He was advanced to the rank of Commander on 21 of the following month, and, from 6 Nov. 1813, until posted 31 May, 1816, was employed in the troop-ship on the North American and St. Helena stations. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Hamilton married, 26 Feb. 1828, Caroline, only child of the late Lieut.-Colonel Cook, of Chingford, co. Essex. – Messrs. Oramanney.

 HAMILTON. 

, born 22 May, 1781, is second son of the late Chas. Powell Hamilton, Esq., Admiral of the Red, who died 12 March, 1825; brother of Hamilton Chas. Jas. Hamilton, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brazil; and great-grandson of James, fourth Duke of Hamilton.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 April, 1796, as Midshipman, on board the 98, commanded by his father in the Channel. On next joining the 98, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral John Colpoys, he was an eye-witness in that ship of the mutiny at Spithead in 1797; after which event he became successively attached to the  and  frigates, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton and Jas. Nicoll Morris. In the boats of the latter ship, after escorting the Earl of Elgin as Ambassador to Constantinople, Mr. Hamilton assisted, under the orders of Lieut. Fras. Beaufort, in cutting out, 28 Oct. 1800, after an obstinate engagement, the Spanish polacre-rigged ship San Josef, carrying 14 brass guns, 34 seamen, and 22 soldiers, moored under the protection of 5 guns in the fortress of Fuengirola, near Malaga. The enemy in this very spirited affair sustained a loss of 19 men wounded, and the British of 1 killed and 4 wounded, including among the latter Mr. Hamilton himself, who, although shot through the thigh in the onset, gallantly boarded with the rest, and was highly spoken of for his conduct. Between the date of his quitting the, 2 Feb. 1802, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 8 Oct. following, he appears to have been next occupied for short periods in the 38, Capt. Frank Sotheron,  36, Capt. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, and  yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Neale. He then joined the frigate, Capt. Loch, and was afterwards, between April and Aug. 1804, employed in the Mediterranean on board the  104, flag-ship of Lord Nelson, and  38, Capt. Wm. Parker. He has not, we believe, been since afloat.

Lieut. Hamilton married, 2 April, 1805, Maria Catherine, daughter of the late John Hyde, Esq., and grand-daughter of Lord Francis Seymour, by whom he has had issue eight sons and three daughters. His eldest surviving son,, is a Commander R.N.

 HAMILTON, Bart, K.C.B.

, born 25 May, 1767, is eldest son of Capt. Sir John Hamilton, R.N. (who was created a Baronet 6 July, 1776, for the important part he had borne, as Commander of H.M.S. Lizard, at the defence of Quebec in the preceding year), by Cassandra Agnes, daughter of Edw. Chamberlayne, Esq., of Maugersbury, co. Gloucester. He is brother of the present ; first-cousin of ; and a relation of the Marquess of Abercorn. He succeeded his father in the Baronetcy 24 Jan. 1784.

This officer entered the Navy, in the summer of 1776, as Captain’s Servant, on board the 74, commanded by his father, from which ship he was transferred, about the middle of 1777, to the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, where he remained for a period of two years. He then rejoined Sir John Hamilton, as Midshipman, in the, and, after sharing with him in Cornwallis’ action in 1780, removed in succession to the and Lowestoff, both commanded by Capt. Haynes,  74, Capt. Cooling, and , flag-ship of Sir Peter Parker – all stationed in the West Indies, where he became Lieutenant, in Oct. 1781 and Feb. 1782, of the , Capts. Mark Robinson and Geo. Martin, and, Capt. Hill. On his return to England in the latter year in the, Capt. Sam. Marshall, Mr. Hamilton was appointed to the, commanded by his father; which ship, being dismasted on her passage to the East Indies, he left in March, 1783. In Dec. 1789, having been the last two years re-employed in the West