fatiguing service every night until the garrison surrendered[1]. He subsequently served on shore as a volunteer, under the orders of the heroic Nelson, at the reduction of Calvi; and upon Captain Cunningham being sent to England with the despatches relative to the final subjugation of Corsica, he was appointed to succeed that officer in the command of the Lowestoffe frigate. In Lord Hood’s official account of the capture of Calvi, we find the following just tribute of applause paid to his merits: “The journal I herewith transmit from Captain Nelson, who had the command of the seamen, will shew the daily occurrences of the siege; and whose unremitting zeal and exertion I cannot sufficiently applaud, or that of Captain Hallowell, who took it by turns to command in the advanced batteries, 24 hours at a time; and I flatter myself they, as well as the other officers and seamen, will have full justice done them by the General[2]: it is therefore unnecessary for me to say more upon the subject.”
From the Lowestoffe, Captain Hallowell was again appointed to the Courageux of 74 guns, which ship formed part of the fleet under Vice-Admiral Hotham, when that officer encountered the enemy off the Hières Islands, July 13, 1795[3]. From this period we find no further mention of him until after the evacuation of Corsica, in Oct. 1796[4], when he proceeded in company with the rest of the fleet to Gibraltar, and arrived at that place early in December. On the 19th of the same month the Courageux parted her cables in a violent gale of wind, and drove nearly under the Spanish batteries before she could be brought up. It being absolutely necessary to remove her from so dangerous a situation, she was got under weigh, and made two or three boards under close reefed topsails, with a view of gaining the anchorage in Rosia Bay; but the wind increasing to a perfect hurricane, and the rain falling in torrents, attended by a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning, rendered every attempt abortive. About 9 P.M. being then under her courses, and stretching over to the African coast, she unfortunately ran against the steep shore of Ape’s Hill[5],
- ↑ See p. 252.
- ↑ Lieutenant-General Stuart, see ibid.
- ↑ See p. 254.
- ↑ See p. 255.
- ↑ Mons Abyla, remarkable for the number of apes about its summit, on which account it is generally called Ape’s Hill.
