with a complement of 129 men, commanded by M. Jacques Perrond, a Lieutenant in the French navy, and a Member of the Legion of Honor[1]. In addition to the foregoing services, he appears to have taken, at different times during the war, two Prussian, three Danish, one American, one Russian, and upwards of one hundred and fifty French vessels; the latter principally coasters of from 10 to 100 tons. He was nominated a C.B. in 1815.
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HENRY HILL, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1800.]
This officer is a son of the late Colonel Hill, of St. Boniface, in the Isle of Wight, who served during the German war as aid-de-camp to Count de Lipp.
He entered the naval service in 1787, as a Midshipman on board the Vestal of 28 guns, commanded by Sir Richard John Strachan, with whom he removed into the Phoenix frigate, on the East India station; where he was engaged in a variety of service, particularly that of transporting the battering train, &c., belonging to the Malabar army, up the Ballypatam river, to the foot of the Ghauts; and in the action with la Resolu French frigate, Nov. 19, 1791[2]. On one occasion,
- ↑ Mr. Perrond was a most experienced and scientific officer. He had previously commanded the Bellona privateer upwards of nine years in the East Indies, where he committed great depredations on our commerce. Le Phoenix was a beautiful ship, built in imitation of the Bellona. She tried the Aigle on every point of sailing; and had there been less wind, would most likely have escaped from her, as she had before done from four other cruisers. The capture of so fine a vessel may justly be deemed a service of importance.
- ↑ See Vol. I. pp. 284 and 285. N.B. Since the publication of our first volume, we have received the following remarks on the action between the Phoenix and Resolu, from an old and intelligent Post-Captain: “A correspondence had been carried on for some time between Commodore Cornwallis and the French Captain, respecting the right of searching merchant vessels; and the latter, in order to try whether the threats of the English Commodore would be put in force, got under way from Mahé roads with two merchant ships under his convoy, and passed close to the British squadron of three frigates in Tellicherry roads. The Phoenix and Perseverance were both ordered by signal to ‘examine the strange sails passing near,’ and both in consequence weighed and went in chase; both
