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Rh the command, at Portsmouth, of the cutter – 7 Feb. 1814, to the  74, Capt.Rich. Raggett, off the coast of North America – and 1 Oct. 1814, and 25 Aug. 1815, to the command of the and  schooners, on the latter and Plymouth stations. He went on half-pay in Oct. 1816, and after having been further employed in the Coast Guard from 28 Jan. 1835, until the close of 1836, was invested, 30 April, 1845, with the rank of Retired Commander. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 JACKSON. 

entered the Navy 27 July, 1808; passed his examination in 1815; obtained his commission 29 July, 1825; and from 28 May, 1839, until 1846, was employed in the Coast Guard. He has since been on half-pay.

 JACKSON. 

is son of an old Post-Captain, who died from the effects of service in the West Indies.

This officer passed a very distinguished examination, 24 July, 1840; was for some time employed, as Mate, in the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings; and served from 1842, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 31 Jan. 1846, on board the 18, commanded in the Pacific by Capt. John Jas. Onslow. He was then appointed Additional of the 80, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour; but since the early part of 1847, has been on half-pay.

 JACKSON. 

entered the Navy, 20 April, 1781, as Ordinary, on board the 36, Capt. Elliot Salter, employed on the American station, where, in the following year, he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture of the French frigate Amazone. Between March, 1784, and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Nov. 1790, he served at Newfoundland, in the Santa, Capt. Alex. Edgar,, Capt. Edw. Pellew, and flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Milhanke; and he was afterwards appointed in succession – 1 April, 1791, to the  sloop, Capt. Alex. Fraser, under whom he was at the capture of the town and garrison of Ostend in April, 1793 – 1 July, 1793, 25 March, 1794, and 25 June, 1795, to the 18, and  and  frigates, Capts. Edw. Riou and Chas. Sidney Davers, all on the West India station, where he contributed, in the, to the reduction of Martinique in 1794 – in Sept. 1795, to the frigate, Capt. Lord Viscount Ranelagh, off the coast of Ireland – and in 1797-8-9, to the  100, flag-ship of Lord Keith,  98, Capt. Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, and, , and again, each bearing the flag of Lord Keith. On the destruction of the last-mentioned ship by fire in Leghorn Roads in March, 1800, Lieut. Jackson (who in the course of the same year beheld the fall of Savona and the surrender of Malta) assumed the acting command of the sloop, as he did, in May following, of the  corvette; in which vessel he captured, 31 Dec. 1800, the Spanish privateer Vives of 10 guns and 80 men, and gained, in 1801, the Turkish gold medal as a reward for his services during the campaign in Egypt. Two days after his official advancement to the rank of Commander, which did not take place until 6 Oct. 1801, Capt. Jackson was appointed by the Commander-in-Chief to the 74 – an act sanctioned by the Admiralty 29 April, 1802. He returned to England in the ensuing June, and was lastly employed as Flag-Captain to Lord Keith, on the North Sea and Channel stations, from Jan. 1806 to June, 1807, in the 74, and again (with the exception of a few months in 1814-15) from Feb. 1812, to Aug. 1815, in the, , and. He became a Rear-Admiral 10 Jan. 1837; and a Vice- Admiral 8 March, 1847. – John P. Muspratt.

 JACKSON, C.B.

was born in 1775, and died 16 Jan. 1845, at Bognor in Sussex. This officer entered the Navy, 14 July, 1790, as Midshipman, on board the cutter, Lieut.-Commander B. Mitchell, in which vessel he served, principally against the smugglers on the Irish station, until the commencement of the war in 1793, when he was appointed Master’s Mate of the  36, Capt. John Sutton, and ordered to the Mediterranean. After witnessing the occupation of Toulon, commanding a boat also at the destruction of a nest of privateers in the island of Corsica, and uniting in an attack upon the forts and batteries of Bastia, he accompanied Capt. Sutton, in May, 1794, into the 74, and was thus afforded an opportunity of sharing in Hotham’s actions of 14 March and 13 July, 1795 (on the former of which occasions he was wounded), and of assisting in command of the ’s barge at the cutting-out from Tunis Bay, 9 March, 1796, of the French vessels Nemesis of 28, and Sardine of 22 guns, together with a polacre mounting 20 guns. On 3 Nov. 1796, Mr. Jackson, whose name had been for a short time borne on the books of the 100, bearing the flag of Sir John Jervis, was made Lieutenant into the  store-ship, Capt. Wm. Cuming. Rejoining the almost immediately afterwards, he had the singular good fortune, in Dec. of the same year, to be the means under Providence of saving the whole of the officers and crew belonging to the  74, when wrecked at the entrance of the Tagus. His most extraordinary and intrepid exertions, in collecting the boats of the squadron, then in leading them to the rescue, and in finally consummating the work of humanity by jeopardising his own life, called forth the thanks of the Court-Martial which subsequently assembled to try the Captain and crew of the. After sharing in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, we find Lieut. Jackson assisting in the ’s barge in a gallant attack made upon the Cadiz flotilla under Don Miguel Tynason, who had come out with a large force in order to cut off the bomb, during her retreat from before the walls of that city; on which occasion he had the honour of boarding the Don’s desperately-defended vessel on one quarter, while the immortal Nelson did so on the other. On the being paid off in the early part of 1798, Lieut. Jackson was appointed Senior of the 74, commanded at first by Capt. Sutton and afterwards by Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, to whom he rendered able and active assistance in the action fought in the Gut of Gibraltar 12 July, 1801, and at its close was sent to take possession of the St. Antoine 74, prize to the. As a reward for his valour in the conflict he was advanced to the rank of Commander on 18 of the ensuing Aug. His next appointment was, 10 May, 1803, to the 16; and in the course of the same year, by order of Rear-Admiral Robt. Montagu, he assumed the direction of a small squadron stationed off Calais, for the purpose of preventing the gun-vessels in that port from forming a junction with the Boulogne flotilla, a service then of the utmost importance. His first operation was an attack of several hours, made on 27 Sept., upon the enemy’s gunboats in Calais pier, which provoked a heavy fire from the French in all directions, and gained the high approval of the Commander-in-Chief Lord Keith. The second affair appears to have been at the commencement of 1804, when the had 1 man killed and 6 others wounded, in an attempt upon a division of the enemy’s flotilla, several of which, although under the protection of 