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Rh Lloyd Graham, to which frigate he continued attached, in the capacities of Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, until June, 1814 – a period of rather more than four years. On 29 Jan. and 3 Feb. 1813, we find him serving with credit at the reduction of the islands of Augusta and Curzola; and on 28 of the following May uniting in a brilliant attack made by four of the boats belonging to the and, under Lieuts. John Wm. Montagu and Wm. Henry Nares, upon a convoy, protected by 11 gun-boats, near Otranto, where the cliffs were covered with French troops. Upon this occasion, Mr. Hutchison, who commanded the ’s gig, and had only seven men with him, actually boarded and carried a gun-vessel mounting one 12 and two 4-pounders, with a complement of 40 men, besides similarly making prize of four armed merchantmen. In the month of June he further assisted at the capture of a gun-boat mounting 2 long guns, and the driving of another vessel on shore. He attained his present rank 18 Feb. 1815, nearly three years after he had passed his examination; and was next, from 6 of the following May until 30 Nov. 1816, employed on the Channel and West India stations, in the, , and sloops, Capts. Geo. Domett and Geo. Campbell. He has since been on half-pay.

Lieut. Hutchison has for many years filled, with pre-eminent zeal and spirit, the post of Harbour-Master at Kingstown, Dublin. His exertions in the preservation of life at different periods have been of a singularly humane and intrepid character. The first instance of the kind was on 23 April, 1818, when he was the means of saving H.M. sloop from destruction, during a violent gale and tremendous sea, by his voluntary efforts and example in manning a life-boat for the purpose of enabling pilots to be put on board – a service which procured him the approbation of the Admiralty, and the sum of 100l. from the Navy Office. The heroic manner in which he afterwards, under the most awful circumstances, rescued the crews of the schooner Curwin of Carlisle, and the brigs Ellen of Liverpool and Duke of Maryport, was such as to obtain the thanks of the Ballast-Office at Dublin, the presentation from the Corporation of a piece of plate of the value of 50 guineas, a recommendation in his favour to the Admiralty from the Viceroy of Ireland, the Duke of Northumberland, and the gold medallion of the London Shipwreck Institution. On 25 Jan. 1838, during a heavy gale from the east, he received a very severe wound, which totally deprived him of the sight of one eye, while in the act of bringing to anchor an Indiaman which he had boarded outside the harbour. The Lieutenant married, 25 Nov. 1818, Elizabeth, daughter of the late John Knox, of Warringsford, co. Down, by whom he has issue six sons and four daughters.

 HUTTON. 

, born in 1801, is son of the Rev. Jas. Harriman Hutton, Vicar of Leckford, co. Hants.

This officer entered the Navy, 28 Jan. 1813, on board the 36, Capt. John Bowen, employed in the East Indies; served from 1816 until 1818 on the Home station in the  36, Capt. Wm. King, and 80, Capt. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson; then sailed for South America in the  42, Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, for the purpose of hoisting the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Bowles; became Mate, in 1821, of the 10, Lieut.-Commander John Keeve, on the Guernsey station; and was next employed for a considerable time in the South Seas and East Indies on board the  26, Capt. Thos. Coe, and 50, bearing the broad pendant of the same officer. After acting for some months as Lieutenant in the 18, Capt. Geo. Fred. Ryves, he went back to the, to which vessel, commanded at the time by Capt. Fred. Marryat, he was confirmed by commission dated 17 May, 1825. He was shortly afterwards, while at Rangoon during the Burmese war, placed in command of the armed transport, and stationed at Panlang on the river Irawady. His succeeding appointments were – 19 Aug. 1826, to the 18, Capt. Robt. White Parsons, with whom he chiefly served as First-Lieutenant on the African, Irish, and Lisbon stations, until paid off in 1829 – in the early part of 1831, to the command of the steamer, for the purpose of escorting the Duchess and Princess of Saxe-Weimar to the Continent – 20 July, 1831, to the  24, Capt. Jas. Hanway Plumridge, again in the East Indies – and, 13 April, 1835, as Senior, to the 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry. In the capacity of Commander, a rank he attained 28 June, 1838, Capt. Hutton was, from 10 Dec. 1838, until finally put out of commission in Aug. 1843, re-employed in the Mediterranean and Tagus on board the 80, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Sir David Dunn, under the latter of whom we find him assisting at the blockade of Alexandria during the Syrian campaign. He attained his present rank 3 July, 1844; and since 12 Nov. 1846, has been employed as Governor of the Ascension and Captain of the store-ship.

Capt. Hutton was presented by the Queen of Portugal with the Order of the Tower and Sword, for his exertions, with a party of the Vanguard’s people, on the occasion of a fire whilh broke out at Lisbon in 1843, and destroyed the Military Schools. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 HYDE. 

entered the Navy, 27 July, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 98, Capts. John Knight and Fras. Pender, bearing the flag afterwards of Lord Collingwood in the Mediterranean and off Cadiz. He came home in 1807 in the frigate, Capt. Hon. Granville Proby, but remained unemployed from that period until Sept. 1810, when he was ordered to the West Indies. On his return from the latter station, where he had been intermediately employed as Midshipman, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir Fras. Laforey, and sloop, Capt. Fras. Kearny White, he joined in Oct. 1811 the 38, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, whom he ultimately followed into the 74. He was again, in Dec. 1812, placed under the orders of Capt. White, in the 12, in which vessel he cruized off the coast of North America until Oct. 1813. He then marched with Capt. Edw. Collier from Halifax to Kingston, in Upper Canada, and on his arrival was appointed to the 14, Capt. Alex. Dobbs. In Aug. 1814, having assisted in transporting the gig belonging to the latter vessel from Queenstown to Frenchman’s Creek, a distance of 20 miles, and thence, with the addition of five batteaux, through the woods to Lake Erie, a further distance of eight miles, he served with a detachment of 75 seamen and marines at the capture of the Somers and Ohio, two out of three fine American schooners, whose aggregate force amounted to 92 lbs. weight of metal and 105 men, while the British were perfectly destitute of artillery. The enemy on the occasion had 1 man killed and 7 womided; the assailants 2 killed and 4 wounded. For his gallant conduct in the attack, and the skill he displayed in afterwards navigating one of the prizes through shoals and rapids, and under a constant and heavy fire, into the river Niagara, Mr. Hyde obtained the particular mention of Capt. Dobbs. About the same period, however, he was unfortunately taken prisoner, and he was in consequence detained in the United States until March 1815. After he had again served for three months in the, commanded by Capt. Edw. Rowley on Lake Ontario, he returned to England on board a transport, and on 20 Sept. 1815 was promoted