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558  of 80 guns, having Rear-Admiral Linois on board, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. On 9 Aug. in the same year Mr. Huskisson was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the ; an appointment which the Admiralty sanctioned by a commission signed on 15 of the ensuing Nov. In July, 1807, he was ordered to join the 98, bearing the flag of Admiral Gambier, to whom he officiated as Flag-Lieutenant during the operations which led to the subsequent fall of Copenhagen. In Jan. 1808 he obtained an appointment to the 36, Capt. Thos. Chas. Brodie, fitting at Chatham, whence, in the spring, he sailed for Jamaica in the 38, with Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, who, on their arrival, placed him in charge, on 5 July, of the schooner, in which vessel he appears to have been for some time employed at the blockade of St. Domingo. Being advanced, 18 Jan. 1809, to the command of the 18, Capt. Huskisson, on 17 Oct. in that year, distinguished himself by the very gallant style in which he supported Capt. Hugh Cameron ot the  18, at the destruction of a battery near Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, while the boats of the two sloops were effecting the annihilation of a privateer in the manner alluded to in our memoir of. The loss of the on this occasion amounted to 2 men killed and 6 wounded. After assisting at the reduction of Guadeloupe, Capt. Huskisson was appointed Acting-Captain of the frigate, and directed to escort home a valuable fleet of merchantmen. The vacancy which he had been selected to fill not being of a nature to entitle him to confirmation, he rejoined the, and continued to serve in her, on the Jamaica station, until posted, 14 March, 1811, into the 28. In June, 1812, being still in the West Indies, he was removed by Vice-Admiral Chas. Stirling to the 24; in which ship he succeeded, while in protection of a convoy, in capturing, at the close of a seven hours’ chase, the U.S. Revenue-cruizer James Maddison, pierced for 14, but carrying only 10 guns, with a complement of 65 men. A few days after this event the was separated from the convoy in a violent gale, during which she lost her top-masts and main-yard. Having refitted at Bermuda, Capt. Huskisson took charge of three small vessels bound to Halifax, and was proceeding thither with 60,000 dollars on board for the dockyard, when, on the night of 28 Sept. 1812, the and two of her consorts were unfortunately wrecked on the N.W. bar of Sable Island. The specie, however, was saved by being thrown overboard with a buoy attached to each of the cases; and at the expiration of 12 days the sufferers were released from their unpleasant position by the advent of a frigate and schooner sent to their assistance. Capt. Huskisson, who was most fully acquitted by court-martial of all blame for the loss of his ship, was next employed, from 12 June to 28 Nov. 1815, in the 42, and  22; in the former of which ships he cruized in command of a small squadron off Havre and the mouth of the Seine, until the surrender of Napoleon Buonaparte. Rejoining the in July, 1818, he sailed in that frigate for the West Indies, where, on 18 Nov. 1819, in consequence of the death of Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell, he became Senior officer of the squadron in the Caribbean seas, and hoisted a broad pendant. On the arrival of Rear-Admiral Fahie from England in May, 1820, Capt. Huskisson was instructed to repair to Jamaica, and place himself under the orders of Sir Home Popham; and on 16 June, eight days only after he had reached his destination, he again hoisted a broad pendant, and assumed the chief command on the station, owing to the health of the Admiral necessitating his return to England. On being relieved by Sir Chas. Rowley in Dec. 1820, Capt. Huskisson himself invalided. His last appointment afloat was to the 42, flag-ship at Cork of Lord John Colville, the command of which he retained from 1 Sept, 1821 until superseded, at his own request, in March, 1822. He was admitted into Greenwich Hospital 15 Oct. 1830.

Capt. Huskisson filled the office of Paymaster of the Navy from 28 March, 1827, until its abolition in Oct. 1830. He married, 22 Aug. 1813, Miss E. Wedge, daughter of an agriculturist eminent in the west of Staffordshire, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Thomas, died at Malta, 16 May, 1833, while serving as Midshipman of H.M.S. . His second son, Wm. Milbanke, holds an appointment in the Foreign Office; and his youngest, John, is a First-Lieutenant, R.M.

 HUSSEY. 

was born 24 Oct. 1796.

This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the sloop, Capts. Fras. Douglas, Berkeley, Dickinson, Robt. Winthrop, and Geo. Kippen, stationed at first in the Channel, and next in the West Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. 1810, and continued to serve until Nov. 1814. He then accompanied Capt. Kippen into the troop-ship, and on 14 Dec. following served with the boats of a squadron at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of five American gun-boats under Commodore Jones, whose capture was not accomplished until the British, after a severe conflict, had sustained a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. In the summer of 1815 he successively joined the sloop, and  frigate, Capts. Geo. Truscott and Hon. Anthony Maitland, on removing with the latter of whom to the 50, it was his fortune to share, as Master’s Mate, in the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. During the next seven years Mr. Hussey, we find, served as Admiralty Midshipman and Mate in the 22, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, 100, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, 20, Capt. Jas. Kearney White, and 26; and  42, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, on the Home, Mediterranean, and South American stations. On 26 Dec. 1822, he was created a Lieutenant in the 18, Capts. Edw. Boxer, Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, and Robt. Stuart, which sloop, after having for a length of time had charge of her, he brought home from the Mediterranean (she had previously been on the Halifax station) and paid off in 1825. Lieut. Hussey’s next appointments were, 29 April, 1828, and 1 March, 1829, to the 28, and  46, Capts. Wm. Fanshawe Martin and Hon. Sir R. C. Spencer, also in the Mediterranean. He invalided in Aug. 1829; and, since 3 April, 1831, has been employed in the Coast Guard.

He married, in Dec. 1825, Sophia, third daughter of Jas. Cockrell, Esq., by whom he has issue four children.

 HUTCHESON. 

entered the Navy 13 Oct. 1813; and, while serving on board the 74, Capt. Josias Rowley, was present at the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn, also at the occupation of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts in the Gulf of Spezia, and at the reduction of Genoa and its dependencies. In 1815, being at the time in the 38, he assisted at the capture of a convoy at Barletta, and at the taking of the Tremiti islands. When afterwards with Rear-Admiral David Milne in the 98, Mr. Hutcheson had an opportunity of sharing in the bombardment of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He was made Lieutenant, 19 Jan. 1822, into the 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, on the West India station, and next appointed, 15 June, 1826, and 8 Dec. 1827, to the 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and bomb, Capts. Thos. Edw. Hoste and Stephen Lushington, on the Mediterranean station. He was promoted, 9 Aug. 1828, to the command Of the sloop, and, having paid that vessel off 14