liam) Hoste, employed in the Adriatic. He subsequently proceeded to the North American station, under the command of Captain Francis Stanfell; and continued to serve with that officer, until paid off at Portsmouth, July 27th, 1815. His next voyage was in the Alceste frigate, to the Yellow Sea, from whence he accompanied Lord Amherst to the Chinese capital and Canton[1]. Henry Ellis, Esq. third Commissioner of the Embassy, in the advertisement to his journal, acknowledges himself to be chiefly indebted to the Hon. Charles Abbot for the drawings and geographical illustrations.
On the 22d of June, 1818, being then a lieutenant of nine months’ standing, this officer was appointed to the Liffey 50, Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, C.B., under whom he served until promoted to the command of the Racehorse sloop, on the Mediterranean station, Jan. 27th, 1821. He afterwards commanded and lost the Columbine of 18 guns. His advancement to the rank of captain took place Jan. 2Gth, 1826; and he succeeded to the honors of the British peerage, on the demise of his father, in 1829.
Lord Colchester now commands the Volage 28, on the South American station. His only brother, the Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, is a barrister-at-law.
Agent.– Messrs. Stilwell.
CHARLES HOPE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1826.]
Second son of the Right Hon. Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session, in Scotland.
This officer served as midshipman on board the Alceste frigate. Captain (now Sir Murray) Maxwell, during Lord Amherst’s embassy to China, in the year 1816; obtained the rank of lieutenant, Oct. 20th, 1817; and was appointed to the Liffey 50, Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, C.B., June 22d, 1818: his commission as commander bears
