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560 (one of Lord Howe’s victorious fleet on the memorable 1 June), gun-brig, Capt. Benj. Butler, 28, Capt. John Erskine Douglas,  gun-brig, and  schooner, each commanded by himself,, Lieut.-Commander John Cox,  64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, and 64, and  74, both under the orders of Capt. David Colby. He was officially promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to the command of the, 9 Feb. 1805; and he was afterwards employed – in 1807, as an Agent for Transports in the North Sea and Baltic, on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and in the Mediterranean – from Oct. to Dec. 1809, in command of the 12, off Heligoland – from 14 May to 5 June, 1810, as First-Lieutenant, in the  28, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope in the river Thames – during the next 13 months in command of various small vessels on the rivers Elbe, Weser, and Ems – from Aug. 1811 until Aug. 1814, and from April to Oct. 1815, in command of the , , and  gun-brigs, on the Irish, Channel, Baltic, Mediterranean, and North Sea stations – from 21 March, 1816, until March, 1819, in the Ordinary at Chatham – and, we believe, from 14 Sept. 1820 until advanced to his present rank 1 Dec. 1827, in command of the  gun-brig, on the Cork station. His last appointments were – 21 July, 1829, to the Coast Guard, in which he served for a period of nearly three years – and, 20 Oct. 1840, to the command of the 104, Capts. Fras. Erskine Loch and Wm. Wilmott Henderson, guard-ship at Portsmouth. He has been on half-pay since Oct, 1843.

 HUTCHISON. 

entered the Navy, 1 March, 1796, as Midshipman, on board a small vessel lying at Sheerness under the command of Lieut. Thos. Hutchison; removed for a short period in 1798 to the 64, Capts. Wm. Hargood and Geo. Tripp, stationed at the Nore; and during the four following years was employed in the Baltic, North Sea, and Mediterranean, under Admiral John Peyton and Capt. John Larmour, with the latter of whom, in the 64, we find him attending the expedition of 1801 to Egypt. From June, 1802, until the same month in 1806, he served with Sir Rich. John Strachan in the and  74’s, and  80; and he was thus afforded an opportunity of assisting at the ’s capture, in 1804, of the Spanish 44-gun frigate Amfitrite, and of a ship with a cargo on board worth 200,000l., and of contributing in the  to the capture, 4 Nov. 1805, of the four line-of-battle ships which had effected their escape from the battle of Trafalgar. He was confirmed a Lieutenant (after having acted for nearly five months as such) in the 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, 11 Nov. 1806, and was afterwards appointed – 12 Jan. 1807, to the  74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, in the Chesapeake, whence he returned in March, 1808 – 30 March, 1809, to the 74, Capts. Hon. Henry Hotham and Rich. Raggett, employed on the coasts of Spain and France, and in the North Sea – 19 Oct. 1811, to the 74, flag-ship on the latter and on the North American stations of Sir J. Strachan and Sir John Borlase Warren – 31 Aug. 1814, to the  10, Capt. Wm. Rush Jackson, which vessel he left in May, 1815 – and, 10 April, 1818, and 18 May, 1821, to the and  74’s, Capts. Thos. Alexander and Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the Home and South American stations. He assisted, while in the, at the destruction, 14 Sept. 1806, off Cape Henry, of the French 74-gun ship L’Impêtueux; co-operated, in the , with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, and partially commanded her boats at the cutting-out of three chasse-marées laden with wine and rosin from under two batteries at Belleisle, and the fire of some field-pieces and armed vessels, in 1810; and commanded for some time the and , tenders to the St. Domingo, on the coast of America, where he was taken prisoner 30 March, 1814. He attained his present rank 9 Nov. 1821, and has since been on half-pay.

 HUTCHISON. 

entered the Navy, 3 May, 1800, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the 98, Capts. Albemarle Bertie and Jas. Oughton, in which ship, bearing for some time the flag of Sir Andrew Mitchell, he continued to serve as Midshipman, on the Channel and Irish stations, until April, 1804. From June, 1805, until taken prisoner in Jan. 1808, he performed the duties of Master’s Mate in the Mediterranean and Channel on board the 18; and on regaining his liberty in March, 1811, he joined the  74, Capts. John Sprat Rainier and Wm. Waller. Being promoted from the 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, to a Lieutenancy, 28 May, 1813, in the  16, Capts. Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng and Henry Litchfield, he appears to have been much employed in that vessel up the rivers and along the shores of North America, and to have commanded a boat at the capture of the United States schooner Asp, mounting 1 long 18-pounder gun, and 2 18-pounder carronades, with swivels, &c., and having 25 men, which vessel, although she had been hauled close to the beach under the protection of a large body of militia, was boarded and carried with cool and determined bravery, the British sustaining a loss of 2 men killed and 6 wounded, and the enemy of their Commander (a Lieutenant) killed and several men drowned. Mr. Hutchison, who invalided home in Dec. 1813, was lastly employed – from 5 Sept. 1822 until Sept. 1826, in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary Lieutenant of the and, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – and, from 24 July, 1829, until the early part of 1834, in the Coast Guard.

 HUTCHISON. 

(b), born 26 May, 1793, in Dublin, is youngest son of the late Ephraim Hutchison, Esq. (great-grandson of an officer who served as Major of Cavalry at the battle of the Boyne, and to whose family King William III. made a grant of the extensive district of Cooliskrane, otherwise Quinsborough, in the Barony of Ophaly, in co. Kildare, free from quit and crown rent), by Elizabeth, daughter of Redmond Morres, Esq., a King’s Counsel, and for many years M.P. for the city of Dublin in the Irish Parliament, and sister of the first Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency.

This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 16, Capt. Philip Cosby Handfield, and in the course of the following year was employed as Midshipman in scouring the Calabrian shore, and destroying the enemy’s coasting-trade. On 30 Jan. 1808, the, in an endeavour to re-capture four Sicilian gun-boats, unfortunately took the ground near Reggio, and was obliged to surrender, after losing, from an exposure of 15 hours to a galling fire from the enemy’s batteries and troops, two-thirds of her crew, together with her Commander and Capt. Thos. Secombe of the, who was serving on board at the time. Escaping in .the boats, Mr. Hutchison got on board the sloop, from which, in a short period, he was transferred to the  84, Capt. Wm. Shield. In May of the same year, he again joined a sloop named the, commanded by Capt. John Brett Purvis, with whom he remained until Jan. 1810, when he was received on board the 74, bearing the flag off Cadiz of Rear-Admiral John Child Purvis. After assisting in the boats of the latter ship at the defence of Fort Matagorda, Mr. Hutchison removed to the 38, Capts. Bridges Watkinson Taylor and Edwards