(one of Lord Howe’s victorious fleet on the memorable 1 June), Caroline gun-brig, Capt. Benj. Butler, Garland 28, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, Robert gun-brig, and Union schooner, each commanded by himself, Woolwich, Lieut.-Commander John Cox, Galikheid 64, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Edw. Thornbrough, and Ruby 64, and Eagle 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 El Corso, 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 Brevdrageren 12, off Heligoland – from 14 May to 5 June, 1810, as First-Lieutenant, in the Thisbe 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 Hope, Pigmy, and Earnest 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 Plumper 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 Victory 104, Capts. Fras. Erskine Loch and Wm. Wilmott Henderson, guard-ship at Portsmouth. He has been on half-pay since Oct, 1843.
HUTCHISON. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 22; h-p., 29.)
George 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 Nassau 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 Diadem 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 Donegal and Renown 74’s, and Caesar 80; and he was thus afforded an opportunity of assisting at the Donegal’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 Caesar 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 Bellona 74, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, 11 Nov. 1806, and was afterwards appointed – 12 Jan. 1807, to the Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, in the Chesapeake, whence he returned in March, 1808 – 30 March, 1809, to the Defiance 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 St. Domingo 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 Briseis 10, Capt. Wm. Rush Jackson, which vessel he left in May, 1815 – and, 10 April, 1818, and 18 May, 1821, to the Vengeur and Genoa 74’s, Capts. Thos. Alexander and Fred. Lewis Maitland, on the Home and South American stations. He assisted, while in the Bellona, at the destruction, 14 Sept. 1806, off Cape Henry, of the French 74-gun ship L’Impêtueux; co-operated, in the Defiance, 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;[1] and commanded for some time the Dolphin and Highflyer, tenders[2] 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. (Lieut.,1813. f-p., 21; h-p., 26.)
William Hutchison entered the Navy, 3 May, 1800, as Sec.-cl. Boy, on board the Windsor Castle 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 Rose 18; and on regaining his liberty in March, 1811, he joined the Norge 74, Capts. John Sprat Rainier and Wm. Waller. Being promoted from the St. Domingo 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, to a Lieutenancy, 28 May, 1813, in the Mohawk 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.[3] 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 Severn and Ramillies, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – and, from 24 July, 1829, until the early part of 1834, in the Coast Guard.
HUTCHISON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 31.)
William 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 Delight 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 Delight, 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 Glatton, who was serving on board at the time. Escaping in .the boats, Mr. Hutchison got on board the Bittern sloop, from which, in a short period, he was transferred to the Malta 84, Capt. Wm. Shield. In May of the same year, he again joined a sloop named the Delight, commanded by Capt. John Brett Purvis, with whom he remained until Jan. 1810, when he was received on board the Atlas 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 Apollo 38, Capts. Bridges Watkinson Taylor and Edwards
