ment of an hour and 20 minutes, which terminated in the beating off by that vessel of a French national schooner of far superior force. On the following morning, however, the Spye was captured by a French frigate; but in two days afterwards the British were given up, it being understood that they were not to serve again during the war. We may here mention, that, on the ship being captured, Mr. Wall had with great presence of mind destroyed the signals. In April, 1813, the condition upon which he had been restored to liberty having been set aside by the Admiralty, he went back to the Spye in the capacity of Master’s Mate; and he continued to serve in her in the Channel until transferred, in the following July, to the Acorn 20, Capt. Geo. Henderson, fitting at Woolwich for the East Indies. Owing to a severe illness brought on by fatigue in stowing the tanks, Mr. Wall, the only officer at the time on board, was under the necessity, on reaching Portsmouth, of being sent to Haslar Hospital. Restored to health, he joined, in Sept. 1813, the Hope 10, Capt. Edw. Saurin; under whom he was for seven months employed in the Channel, chiefly in convoying and in chasing privateers. From 15 June until 16 Aug. 1815 his name was borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the Namur 74, Capt. Geo. M‘Kinley, guard-ship at the Nore; and on 7 Sept. ensuing he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He filled an appointment in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, from 27 Dec. 1830 until 23 March, 1831. Since 28 Aug. 1834, he has been in charge of a station in the Coast Guard in Ireland. His exertions at various periods in saving, and in endeavouring to save, life have obtained the thanks of the Inspector-General. In the execution of his duty he has been much hurt; once indeed so severely that his constitution has been ever since impaired.
Lieut. Wall, now a widower, married, 10 Oct. 1816, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Willes, of co. Essex, by whom he had issue six children. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
WALL. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Wall is son of Major Adam Wall, who was killed at the battle of Waterloo in command of the 4th Brigade of Artillery.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1819, on board the Egeria 28, then on the Newfoundland station. Removing in 1823 to the Thetis 46, Capt. Sir John Phillimore, he sailed in that ship in the following year for Cape Coast Castle; where, uniting in the warfare against the Ashantees, he landed and received a severe gun-shot wound in the right knee while engaged on picket duty. In 1825 he, and the First-Lieutenant of the Thetis, alone earned the thanks of both Houses of Parliament and of the Board of Trade for their exertions in saving 107 sail of merchantmen, which had been cast on shore in a heavy gale in the Bay of Gibraltar. After he left the Thetis he served in succession on board the Spartiate 76, Ocean 80, Revenge 78, Wellesley 74, Ocean again, and Tribune 42. While so employed he assisted in restoring Morea to the Greeks, and in affording support, on the coast of Catalonia, to the interests of Queen Christina during the Carlist revolution. From 4 May, 1840, until 1842 he held an appointment in the Coast Guard. Although he had passed his examination 4 Oct. 1826 he was not promoted to the rank of Lieutenant until 23 Nov. 1841. He served in the Resistance 42, troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey, from 12 Nov. 1842 until 1845; and from 1 Nov. in the latter year until 1848 he was again employed in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Wall is married to a distant relative of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Sam. Hood, K.B, Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
WALLACE. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 17; h-p., 36.)
James Wallace entered the Navy, in 1794, as a Volunteer, on board the Victorious 74, Capts. Sir John Orde and John Brown. He removed in the following year to the Commerce de Marseilles, Capt. Eaton Childe; in 1796 he was employed in the Channel and Mediterranean, under the flag of Sir J. Orde, in the Princess Royal 98; and, after serving for about two years in the Channel and North Sea as Midshipman in the Téméraire 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, and Jamaica 26, Capt. John Mackellar, he removed with the latter officer, in March, 1801, to the Terpsichore 32, commanded next by Capt. Walter Bathurst. While attached to the Jamaica he escorted a fleet of merchantmen to and from the Baltic, aided in making one or two prizes, and united in compelling a large privateer, commanded by the famous Blackeman, to strike her colours. In the Terpsichore he was at first stationed off Boulogne and Calais, and then in the East Indies; where he was nominated, 30 March, 1805, Acting-Lieutenant of the Sir Edward Hughes 38, Capts. Hood Hanway Christian, Gilbert Heathcote, and Edw. Ratsey. He was officially promoted 24 Oct. 1807; and was subsequently appointed, on the Home station – 23 Dec. 1807, to the Challenger sloop, Capt. Wm. Barnham Rider – in Dec. 1808, to the Sea Fencibles at Teignmouth – 18 April, 1810, for 11 months, to the Cadmus 10, Capt. Thos. Fife – 24 Sept. 1811, to the Parthian 10, Capts. Tompkinson and Garrett – and, 24 Feb., 15 Sept., and 1 Oct. 1814 (he had left the Parthian in April, 1813), to the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, and Spey 20 and Towey 24, both commanded by Capt. Hew Steuart. The latter ship he quitted in May, 1815. He accepted his present rank 24 July, 1844.
WALLACE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 12; h-p., 32.)
Thomas Wallace died in 1847.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hecla bomb, Capt. John Sykes; previously to accompanying whom in the Nautilus sloop to the Mediterranean, he twice, in July and Aug. 1804, assisted at the bombardment of Havre de Grace. Between 1806 and June, 1815, he was employed on the Home, Brazilian, West India, and North American stations, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Princess of Orange 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, Aimable 32, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, Adamant 50, Capts. John Sykes and Matthew Buckle, Hermes 20, Capt. Hon. Wm. Henry Percy, Shelburne 14, Lieut.-Commanders David Hope and Wm. Hamilton, and Primrose 18, Capt. Chas. Geo. Rodney Phillott. In the Aimable, after escorting the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley from Cork to Portugal, he assisted at the capture, 3 Feb. 1809, of L’Iris French national ship, pierced for 32, but mounting only 24 guns, whose resistance was maintained until she had herself suffered a loss of 2 men killed and 8 wounded, and the Aimable, besides being materially damaged in masts, spars, sails, and rigging, of 2 wounded. He belonged to the Hermes when that vessel, having had 25 of her men killed and 24 wounded in an unsuccessful attack upon Fort Bowyer, Mobile, was set on fire and destroyed to prevent her falling into the hands of the Americans, 15 Sept. 1814. On leaving the Primrose he took up a commission bearing date 8 Feb. 1815. He did not afterwards go afloat.
WALLER. (Captain, 1817.)
Edmund Waller died 15 July, 1845, at St. Helier’s, Jersey, aged 63.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1790, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Windsor Castle 98, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Herbert Sawyer in the Channel; served as Midshipman, on the Newfoundland and Home stations, in the Syren and Apollo frigates, both commanded by Capt. John Manley, Arethusa 38, Capt. Mark Robinson, Emerald 36, Capt. Velterers Cornewall Berkeley, and Russell 74, Capt. Archibald Collingwood Dickson; and was made Lieutenant, 27 May, 1797, into the Childers sloop, Capt. Lord Jas. O’Bryen, attached to the fleet in the Channel; where we find him, in Oct. 1798 and
