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 large French privateers, which service was performed with the loss of 7 men killed, drowned, and wounded.

Captain Hall was soon after obliged to invalid at Jamaica, through ill-health. His next appointment was in Nov. 1808> to the Ruby 64; from which ship he was superseded in the Baltic, about July following. During the preceding three months, he was employed protecting different convoys through the difficult passage of the Belt.

On his return to England, Captain Hall assumed the command of the Puissant at Spithead. From her he removed in April 1810, to the Royal William flag-ship, where he continued until the expiration of Sir Roger Curtis’s command, in the spring of 1812. At the close of the same year, he was appointed to superintend all the supplies required by the Russian fleet in the river Medway; this duty he performed for the space of ten months: after which he became Flag-Captain to Vice-Admiral Domett, commander-in-chief at Plymouth, on whose retirement, in July 1815, he was superseded from the Impregnable, and placed on half-pay. He has since commanded the ships in ordinary at Portsmouth, during the customary period of three years.

Agent.– Sir F. M. Ommanney, M.P. 

 officer was made a Lieutenant about the year 1790; and, commanded the Racoon sloop of war on the North Sea Station, in 1797. On the llth Jan. 1798, he captured, after a short running fight, le Policrate, French privateer of 16, guns, and 72 men; the Racoon on this occasion had 1 killed -and 4 wounded. Eleven, days iafter, Captain Lloyd also intercepted la Peruke of 2 guns and 32 men; he, had some time previously taken les Amis, of similar force. On the 20th Oct. following, he destroyed le Vigilante, of 14 guns and 50 men.

Early in July 1799, during a dark and foggy night, the Benjamin and Elizabeth, West Indiaman, being about twelve miles from Dungeness, was suddenly boarded on the quarter