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562 (from the 100, Capt. Edm. Boger) to the rank of Lieutenant. With the exception of a servitude of some time in the 26, commanded by his former Captain, White, on the Halifax station, Mr.Hyde has since been on half-pay. He is married and has issue.

 HYDE. 

obtained his commission 5 Dec. 1824; and has since been on half-pay. He holds the appointment of Dock-Master on the Glamorgan Canal. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 HYETT. 

entered the Navy, 28 March, 1805, as Third-el. Vol., on board the, Capts. John Wainwright and Hon. Courtenay Boyle, bearing the flag of Admiral Montagu at Portsmouth; and after a further servitude on the Home station in the sloop, Capt. Timothy Clinch, and, as Midshipman, in the  64, Lieut. -Commander Jas. Rose, sailed in March, 1809, for the West Indies in the 10, Capt. Geo. Moubray. From May, 1812, until Aug. 1815, we find him employed with the last-mentioned officer, and with Capts. Henry Litchfield and John Moberly, on board the 18 – the latter part of the time as Acting-Master, Acting-Lieutenant, and Master’s Mate. He joined, therefore, in the attacks upon Norfolk and Hampton; saw a good deal of detached service in the Chesapeake; was in the boats when they cut out a 600-ton merchantman from under the forts in Charleston Bay; received, on 29 June, 1814, a musket-ball through the lower jaw in a boat-engagement with a pirate in the Gulf of Mexico; and was most severely frost-bitten in the legs during the expedition to New Orleans, where he was constantly away from his ship on boat-duty. On leaving the, as above, he took up (he had passed his examination in June, 1812) a commission dated 10 Feb. 1815; and he was lastly, from Dec. 1826, until Jan. 1831, employed as an Agent for Transports afloat. In consideration of the wound he had received in his cheek, involving the loss of hearing in one ear, and of the injuries he had sustained at New Orleans, which, after occasioning him much suffering, resulted in the amputation, 28 June, 1846, of the right leg high above the knee, Lieut. Hyett was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 13 Oct. following.

 HYNE. 

entered the Navy, 13 April, 1811, as Ordinary, on board the 100, Capt. John Clavell, with whom, after a brief attachment to the  24, he was for six years employed on the Mediterranean, North American, and East India stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the  36. He then, in 1817, returned to England with Capt. Chas. Henry Pemberton in the 74; and between the month of Sept. in the following year and his official promotion, which took place 4 June, 1822, he was employed on the West India, Home, and African stations, latterly in the capacity of Acting-Lieutenant, on board the  20, Capt. Andrew Mitchell,  10, Capt. Douglas Cox,  100, Capt. Thos. Briggs, 40, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, and 42, Commodore Sir Robt. Mends, by whom he was intrusted for a short time with the command of the, a small vessel. He left the in the course of the month last mentioned; and (with the exception of a reemployment for about twelve months in 1829-30 in the Coast Guard as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the  42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye) has since been on half-pay.

 HYNSON. 

entered the Navy, 10 Aug. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, in which ship he accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies in his celebrated pursuit of the combined squadrons. In Nov. 1812, Capt. Hallowell having hoisted his flag as Rear-Admiral on board the 84, he joined him as Master’s Mate in that ship. He continued with him until made Lieutenant, 23 Dec. 1814, into the Partridge sloop, Capt. John Miller Adye; and since Sept. 1815 has been on half-pay. – Coplands and Burnett.



IMPEY. 

is son of the late Sir Elijah Impey. This officer entered the Navy, 28 April, 1785, as Midshipman, on board the 100, Capt. John Knight, bearing the flag of Lord Hood at Portsmouth; and on his return from a voyage to Otaheite, whither he had been sent for the produce of the breadfruit-tree as Master’s Mate of the  store-ship, Capt. Wm. Bligh, was received on board the 98, lying at Spithead under the flag of Sir John Jervis. On being advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, 7 Nov. 1793, he joined the bomb, Capt. Chas. Sawyer, on the West India station; and he was next appointed in that capacity – 17 March, 1795, to the 74, Capt. Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, part of Admiral Hotham’s fleet in the action fought off the Hyerea Islands 13 July following – 9 March, 1797, to the frigate, Capt. Thos. Le Marchant Gosselin, employed in the Channel – and, 27 April, 1799, 4 Jan. 1800, and 21 April, 1801, to the 98, bearing the flag of Admiral Harvey,  frigate, Capt. John Poo Beresford, and  74, flag-ship of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, all on the West India station. He was confirmed, 15 Jan. 1802, in the command of the sloop, likewise in the West Indies; on his return whither in the  16, after having for some time commanded the  on Home service, we find him effecting the capture, 26 Jan. 1805, of L’Elisabeth schooner privateer, of 4 guns and 34 men. He attained Post-rank 22 Jan. 1806, and in the following Feb. was ordered to England in the Alexandre 80, one of the prizes taken in the action off St. Domingo. He has since been on half-pay. He became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired List 28 June, 1838; and, on 17 Aug. 1840, his name was added to the roll of active flag-officers.

 IMRIE. 

was born 23 Nov. 1784, at Rochester, co. Kent.

This officer entered the Navy, in March, 1793, as Boatswain’s Servant, on board the 74, Capts. Hon. Geo. Keith Elphinstone, Edw. Thornbrough, Geo. Countess, Wm. Brown, and Wm. Henry Jervis. Continuing in that ship for upwards of eight years he served in consequence at the occupation of Toulon in Aug. 1793 – escorted to England the ships that were there taken – bore a part in Lord Bridport’s action 23 June, 1795 – attended the ensuing ill-fated expedition to Quiberon in support of the French Royalists – and on 12 Oct. 1798 was present as Midshipman with the force under Sir John Borlase Warren at the defeat of Commodore Bompart’s squadron, when the Hoche 74 struck to the, after a very severe action, in which the latter sustained a loss of 10 men killed and 40 wounded. In Sept. 1801 Mr. Imrie was discharged into the 74, Capt. Robt. Waller Otway, which ship being paid off on her return from the West Indies in July, 1802, he shortly afterwards, on passing his examination, joined the 18, Capts. Walter Grosett and Martin Neville, and, in May, 1803, as Master’s Mate, the 18, Capt. Rich. Turner Hancock. From April, 1804, until May, 1808, we find him serving, chiefly in the capacity last mentioned, on board the 74, Capts. Chas. Boyles, Rich. Lee, and Jas. Bissett; and participating during the period in Sir Rich. John Strachan’s action 4 Nov. 1805, as also in the 