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Rh Marsh Schomberg, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Moore on the Mediterranean station, where, until 1825, he also served in the 20, Capt. Hawkins, and  18, Capt. Edw. Hinton Scott. He then became attached to the 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, and, after cruizing for some time in the North Sea, was appointed to the 10, Lieut.-Commander John Powney, tender to one of the Royal yachts, in which vessel, we believe, he attended the Lord High Admiral and his consort in their visit to the different dockyards in 1827. Being in consequence promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 11 Aug. in the same year, he afterwards served in that capacity on board the 74, Capt. Henry Stuart,  120, Capt. Hon. Geo. Poulett, and 18, commanded on the Lisbon station by Capt. Alex. Ellice. He has been on half-pay since 1832.

Lieut. Hart is a Magistrate for co. Donegal. He married, in 1835, his cousin, Jane Maria, daughter of the Rev. G. V. Hart, Rector of Castlebar, and grand-daughter of the late Very Rev. Dean Hume, of Derry, by whom he has issue six children. Messrs. Ommanney.

 HART, Kt., K.C.H.

, born in 1781, is son of Rich. Hart, Esq., of Uckfield, co. Sussex, and belongs to an ancient and very respectable family, being a descendant of Sir Percival Hart, of Lullingstone Castle, co. Kent, and a distant relative of the present Sir Percival Hart Dyke, Bart., of the same place.

This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 46, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, and on 13 of the following Jan., being at the time in company with the 36, took part in a very gallant engagement of 10 hours, which ended in the loss of the French 74-gun ship Les Droits de l’Homme, whose opposition had had the effect of wounding 19 of the ’s people. Being next transferred with Sir Edw. Pellew to the 74, he had an opportunity of distinguishing himself during the blockade of Belleisle, besides attending the expedition of 1800 to Ferrol, where he commanded a flat-bottomed boat, and assisted at the cutting out from under the batteries in Vigo Bay of La Guépe, a vessel of 22 guns, desperately defended. On 2 April, 1802, having just completed his time, Mr. Hart was appointed by Lord Keith to a Lieutenancy in the 32, Capt. Sir John Gore – an act which the Admiralty confirmed on 12 of the next June. On becoming Senior of that frigate we find him making prize, in one of her boats, of a French privateer off Gibraltar; and afterwards contributing to the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, near Cape St. Mary, 5 Oct. 1804; as also, in Nov. following, to the detention of the Matilda 36, a ship laden with a cargo of quicksilver worth 200,000l. He ultimately accompanied Lord Cornwallis, as Governor-General, to India, where, in July, 1805, he became Flag-Lieutenant, in the 74, to his old friend Sir Edw. Pellew; by whom, in the course of 1807, he was successively appointed Acting-Captain of the, , , and frigates. While in the, Capt. Hart (independently of the cutting out from the coast of Java, in open day, of a Dutch sloop-of-war of 14 guns and 75 men) was instrumental to the annihilation at Griessee, 11 Dec. 1807, of the dockyard and stores, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in the East Indies; being on that occasion intrusted with the duty of landing the troops and of commanding the seamen on shore. He subsequently, in the same frigate, partook of an engagement with the batteries and gun-boats at the entrance of Manilla Bay. Being superseded in the in 1808, Capt. Hart, whose second promotal commission had been dated 12 Oct. 1807, was next appointed, in 1810, to the command of the  18, in which sloop he cruized off Cherbourg until posted 1 Aug. 1811. His subsequent appointments were – 10 Dec. 1813, to the 20, in the Mediterranean – for some months in 1814, to the  74, bearing the flag of his former Captain, Sir John Gore – 27 Aug. 1818, to the  26, in which vessel, prior to invaliding in Aug. 1820, we find him watching, with high credit to himself, the British interests at Porto Bello, at a time when that place was attacked by a force under Sir Gregor M‘Gregor in unison with the Mexican patriots, and next intrusted with a mission to the Governor-General of South America, who had been driven from Mexico to Carthagena – and, 30 Sept. 1831, to the, 74, again as Flag-Captain to Sir J. Gore, then just appointed Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. While on that station Capt. Hart was placed in temporary command of the, and specially deputed to conduct an important negotiation with the Imaum of Muscat; on the happy issue of which he went to Bombay with a ship of 74 guns, intended as a present from that potentate to William IV., who added her to the British Navy under the name of. The returned to England with the Earl of Clare, and was paid off 22 July, 1835; a few months after which period, on 25 Jan. and 23 Feb. 1836, Capt. Hart, in acknowledgment of his services, was invested with the insignia of a K.C.H., and awarded the honour of Knighthood. He obtained the Captain’s Good-Service Pension 12 April, 1842; and on 1 Oct. 1846 he accepted the rank he now holds.

The Rear-Admiral was appointed, in 1845, a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. He married, in 1808, a daughter of Andrew Williams, Esq., of Southampton, sister of the present Lady Page Turner. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 HARVEY. 

entered the Navy, in March, 1796, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 38, Capts. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith and Sir Rich. John Strachan; the former of whom, after a servitude of more than two years in the Channel, he rejoined, in July, 1798, as Midshipman, in the 74, on the Mediterranean station; where, during a continuance of four years, he witnessed the defence of Acre, and attended the expedition to Egypt. While next attached, between the summer of 1802 and the spring of 1806, to the 32 (of which vessel, commanded by the late Sir John Gore, he was confirmed a Lieutenant 13 Jan. 1803), Mr. Harvey, besides much active service in the Gut of Gibraltar, and ultimately escorting Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General to India, assisted at the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, near Cape St. Mary, 5 Oct. 1804; as he also did at the detention, in the following month, of the Matilda 36, a frigate laden with a cargo of quicksilver worth 200,000l. He subsequently, on leaving the, joined, for a short period, the 32, Capt. Clotworthy Upton, lying at Portsmouth, and then the  74, in which ship, under the successive flags of Sir W. S. Smith and Hon. Hen. Edwin Stanhope, he attended the expeditions of 1807 to the Dardanells (where he contributed to the destruction of the Turkish shipping at Point Pesquies) and Copenhagen. With the exception of an interval in 1809-10, and of a few months in 1811 and again in 1812, during which he served with Capts. Hon. Anthony Maitland and Leveson Gower in the 36 and  74, Mr. Harvey was further employed with Sir W. S. Smith, from Feb. 1808 until promoted to the rank of Commander 19 July, 1814, in the  80 and  120, on the Brazilian and Mediterranean stations – participating, in the latter ship, in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial actions with the Toulon fleet of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814. He has since been on half-pay. – Messrs. Halford and Co. 