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554 repulsed with a loss of 21 men killed and wounded. Towards the close of 1810 he escorted Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle to the Mediterranean; and on 11 Oct. 1811, after having returned with an Algerine Ambassador to England, he assisted at the capture of a most notorious privateer,, of 18 guns and 140 men. During the last two years of the war, Mr. Hungerford further served with Capt. Vansittart on board the 74, at the blockade of the Texel, Brest, and Rochefort. He then joined the, flagship of Sir Herbert Sawyer at Cork; where he remained until paid off in Nov. 1815. In 1819 he entered the Coast Guard; and in 1823, as a means of procuring his promotion, he again went afloat, in the 18, Capt. John Weeks. His commission was at length signed on 27 March, 1826; from 29 Nov. in which year until the close of 1843, he again served in the Coast Guard. He has not since been employed.

Lieut. Hungerford married, in Sept. 1835, Caroline, daughter of the late W. H. Trotter, Esq., of Downpatrick, and niece of a gentleman who was formerly private secretary to the Right Hon. Chas. Jas. Fox. He has issue three children. – Joseph Woodhead.

 HUNN. 

is son of the late Mr. Hunn, formerly of Exeter, by a lady nearly related to the Sheridan family, who had been twice before married – the first time to Geo. Canning, Esq., Barrister-at-law, the father of the future Prime Minister.

This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capt. John Shortland, with whom he continued to serve in the  and, on the Irish, African, and North American stations until Nov. 1808. After cruizing for 12 months in the Channel as Midshipman and Master’s Mate of the 38, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, he joined the 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Fras. Pickmore off Cadiz, where, on 2 May and 1 June, 1810, he was successively appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the and  74’s, Capts. Thos. Boys and Sir Rich. King. In Jan. 1811 he removed in a similar capacity to the frigate, Capt. Geo. Digby, stationed in the Mediterranean; and on 5 April, 1811, he was confirmed into his former ship, the, then commanded by Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis, under whom we find him employed for 18 months at the blockade, in Venice, of three line-of-battle ships and a frigate ready for sea. His next appointment was, 10 April, 1813, to the 100, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Pickmore, also on the Mediterranean station. Obtaining a second promotal commission 27 Aug. 1814, Capt. Hunn, on 14 Aug. 1818, and 25 June, 1822, was awarded the command of the and  sloops, of 18 guns each, on the St. Helena, Cork, and Newfoundland stations. He acquired Post-rank 26 Dec. 1822; and from 28 Nov. 1823, until May, 1827, had the further command of the 28, on the South American, Irish, and Jamaica stations; on which last he captured, in 1826, a fine schooner with 276 slaves on board. He accepted the retirement 1 Oct. 1846.

Capt. Hunn married, in Oct. 1814, Emma, only daughter of Vice-Admiral Pickmore. – Messrs. Chard.

 HUNT. 

entered the Navy, 8 June, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 10, Capts. Jas. Andrew Worth, Geo. Wickens Willes, and Jonathan Christian, on the books of which vessel he was borne until Aug. 1815. He came frequently into contact, during that period, with the enemy’s batteries on the coast of Norway and Denmark; assisted at the capture of four privateers, carrying in all 27 guns and 117 men; was in the gale in which the, , and were lost; and, in the severe winter of 1813-14, saw a good deal of active night-service in the boats while engaged in protecting the fleet stationed in the Scheldt under Admiral Young from being attacked by the enemy’s fire-rafts. He was also frequently sent in charge of captured vessels into port; and on the first of those occasions he was of such tender age and diminutive stature as to attract the peculiar notice and praise of the Commander-in-Chief. After having taken part in the grand naval review held at Spithead at the termination of hostilities in 1814, the proceeded with convoy to Gibraltar, and soon after her arrival anchored, in company with the  110, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. King, off Ceuta, on the coast of Morocco. While there Mr. Hunt, as Midshipman in charge of a boat’s crew, proceeded on shore, accompanied by the Second-Lieutenant, Master, Purser, and Mate, for the purpose of bathing and of procuring a supply of sand for the use of the ship. On landing, the British were suddenly, and without parley, assailed by a large party of Moors, who, riding down, opened a murderous fire upon such as had approached within a few paces with a view of speaking them; and indeed their evident intention of sacrificing the whole party was only arrested by the appearance of an aged man, unarmed, who was seen rushing down a hill calling upon them to desist. By this time, however, Mr. Hunt had received numerous wounds in the head, body, and arms, and several stabs from their scimitars and daggers. He was in consequence sent to the hospital at Gibraltar, where he remained until careful treatment had enabled him to recover. Rejoining the at Portsmouth in Feb. 1815, he was employed in that vessel during the war of 100 days in conveying despatches and specie for the use of the army in Belgium; and, being at Ostend when the British army advanced from Brussels to meet the French at Waterloo, he had an opportunity of accompanying home the despatch which reported that fact, and announced the commencement of the glorious battle of the 18th of June. In Nov. 1815 he joined the 20, Capt. Robt. Wergan Geo. Festing, which vessel appears, in the early part of 1816, to have co-operated with the fleet under Sir Edw. Pellew in procuring the release of the Christian slaves in bondage at Algiers, and to have been assigned an honourable post in the order of battle instituted before Tunis pending the accomplishment of the negotiations instituted for the same object at that place. On being ordered to the St. Helena station, Mr. Hunt assisted, in the, in establishing a settlement at Tristan d’Acunha; as he did, on his temporary removal to the sloop, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, on the island of Ascension. Passing his examination in 1817, in the course of which year he returned to England and left the, Mr. Hunt was subsequently employed as Mate – from Aug. 1820 to April, 1822, of the , Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – from April, 1822, until July, 1825, of the, Capt. Wm. Hewett, engaged as a surveying-vessel on the east coast of England, where, in Oct. 1824, she was extricated from a perilous position on a lee-shore during a violent storm, which proved fatal to all the ships and their crews in the vicinity – from July, 1825, until Nov. 1829, of the, Revenue cruizer, on the Irish station – and, from Nov. 1829 until Jan. 1831, of the 52, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Griffith Colpoys, and 46, Capt. Benj. Clement, in the West Indies. He then took up a commission dated 22 July, 1830; and has since been on half-pay. – Joseph Woodhead.

 HUNT. 

passed his examination in 1832; obtained his first commission 10 Dec. 1835; and was appointed – 13 Jan. 1836, to the 18, Capt. Jas. Hope, on the North America and West India station – 14 June, 1839, as First, to the 16, Capt. Stephen Grenville Fremantle, in South