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536 Midshipman, on board the 64, Capt. Thos. Harvey, with whom he was for some months employed in the 74, on the Baltic station; where, in the course of 1810, he joined the  and  64’s, both commanded by Capt. Robt. Williams. During the action of 6 July, 1812, with the Danish squadron, alluded to in our narrative of, he is represented to have been on board the latter ship, whose loss on the occasion amounted to 4 persons killed and 24 (including himself ) wounded. The three years preceding his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 20 Sept. 1815, were passed by Mr. Hooper on the North Sea, North American, West India, and Newfoundland stations, in the and  74’s, Capts. Thos. Harvey and Robt. Honyman, and 22, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court. He has since been on half-pay.

 HOOPER. 

entered the Navy, in 1800, as L.M., on board the 44, Capts. John Whitby and Geo. Barker, employed in the West Indies; where, and in the Channel, he served, from Dec. 1803 until Aug. 1809, as A.B., Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, in the brig, Capt. Sam. Chambers. During the three first years of that period he assisted at the capture, re-capture, and destruction of at least 50 vessels; among which were El Galgo Spanish packet, the Aranzana letter-of-marque, and El Courier privateer. In 1808 the took two other privateers – Le Furet, of 16 guns and 47 men, and Le Général Paris, of 3 guns and 38 men. After an attachment of nearly 12 months to the 110, under the flags of Sir John Thos. Duckworth and Sir Chas. Cotton, Mr. Hooper was made Lieutenant, 4 July, 1810, into the 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore in the Mediterranean. His last appointments were – 10 Sept. 1812, to the 14, Capts. Edw. Brazier and Wm. Kelly, with whom he served in the Channel and Baltic until compelled by illness to invalid in Sept. 1814 – and, 3 Feb. 1816, to the 24, commanded by Capt. Sam. Chambers on the Halifax station. The latter vessel was paid off 8 Dec. 1818.

 HOOPER. 

(b) entered the Navy, 3 May, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the frigate, Capt. Fras. Mason; and on removing, after serving for some time in the Baltic, to the 40, Capts. John Wentworth Loring and Wm. Augustus Montagu, sailed for North America. In 1813 he became Midshipman of the 38, Capts. F. Mason and Archibald Duff, in time, we believe, to witness the fall of St. Sebastian. Between Oct. 1815 and April, 1816, he was employed in the North Sea on board the 20, Capts. Wm. Elliott and Chas. Sibthorp John Hawtayne. He then proceeded to the West Indies, where, for a period of two years and a half, he served under Capt. Elliott in the 36. In 1820 he returned to the same station in the 44, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane; on quitting which ship he successively joined, in 1822-3, the 46, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt,  74, Commodore Sir Edw. Owen, and, Capt. Roberts. He obtained his commission 12 Jan. 1824, and has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Hooper married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Thos. Gardiner Bramston, Esq., of Skreens, M.P. for co. Essex; and sister of the present Thos. Wm. Bramston, Esq., of Skreens, who married a daughter of the late Admiral Sir Elias Harvey, G.C.B., M.P. He was left a widower 6 Aug. 1839.

 HOOPS. 

entered the Navy 11 June, 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and for his services on the coast of Syria and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Nov. 1840. His appointments have since been – 15 Dec. 1840, as Additional, to the 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – 24 Jan. 1841, to the 92, Capt. Robt. Maunsell, on the same station – and, 2 Feb. 1844, to the 12, Capts. Wm. Finlaison, Arthur Morrell, and Fred. Hutton, store-ship at Ascension, where he is at present employed.

 HOPE. 

, born in 1798, is second son of the Right Hon. Chas. Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland, by Charlotte, daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun; nephew of Lieut.-General Sir John Hope, G.C.H., and of Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Wm. Johnston Hope, G.C.B.; brother of Wm. Hope, Esq., a Major in the Army and Captain in the 7th Foot; and first-cousin of the late Capts. Wm. James, Chas. Jas., and Geo. Jas., Hope, R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 June, 1811, as Sec.-cl. Vol., on board the 10, Capt. Jas. Green, on the Leith station, where he removed, in the following Nov., to the 44, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Albany Otway. In April 1812, he became Midshipman of the 36, Capt. Chas. Richardson, bearing the flag afterwards of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope. On his return home in Aug. 1814 he joined the 74, Capt. David Lloyd, lying at Portsmouth, whence, towards the close of the same year, he sailed for North America in the  20, commanded by the late Lord Napier. In the course of 1815 he was successively received on board the, , and frigates, Capts. Henry Hope, Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, and Murray Maxwell; under the latter of whom he accompanied Lord Amherst on his embassy to China, and was wrecked, while returning home with that nobleman, in the Straits of Gaspar, 18 Feb. 1817. Obtaining his first commission on 20 of the following Oct., he was next, 22 Feb. 1818, appointed Lieutenant of the 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, in which ship he visited the Mediterranean and cruized for some time off Lisbon. After serving with Capt. Chas. Adam in the yacht he was invested, 15 Oct. 1822, with the rank of Commander, and on 28 Feb. 1824 nominated to the  10. In the month of Sept. following he captured, off Flamborough Head, a large smuggling lugger, with a cargo of considerable value. Capt. Hope, whose advancement to Post-rank took place 26 Jan. 1826, was subsequently appointed – 21 Oct. 1830, to the 28, a vessel in which he served on the South American station, and, prior to being paid off in Jan. 1834, passed over 82,000 miles, a greater distance than had been traversed by any vessel since the war – 24 Jan. 1835, to the  50, fitting at Plymouth, where he was superseded in the ensuing July – and, 28 Aug. 1841, to the  42. He was employed in the latter frigate on the East India and Pacific stations until the close of 1845, when she returned to England and was put out of commission. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Hope married, 12 Sept. 1826, Anne, eldest