former officer on the coast of Egypt procured him the Turkish gold medal – and 18 May, 1803, and 26 May, 1804, to the Isis 50, and Culloden 74, flagships at Newfoundland and in the East Indies of Vice-Admiral Gambier and Sir Edw. Pellew. In the early part of 1805, we find him successively nominated Acting-Captain of the Duncan frigate, and Governor, pro tempore, of the Royal Naval Hospital at Madras; the latter of which posts he resigned about Sept. in the same year. On 31 Jan. 1806, Mr. Hawtayne was promoted to the rank of Commander, and in that capacity he was next appointed, 6 May, 1807, to the Cephalus 18, in which sloop he conveyed Mr. Gambier, as Consul-General, to Lisbon, and then proceeded to the Mediterranean. He was posted, at the request of Lord Gambier, on 13 of the following Oct., but he does not appear to have again gone afloat until March, 1810, when he succeeded in obtaining an appointment to the Quebec 32, on the North Sea station, where he captured the privateers L’Imperatrice of 14 guns and 60 men, Le Renard of 6 guns and 24 men (taken in company with the Kite sloop), and L’Olympia, of 10 guns and 78 men. The Quebec being paid off in Feb. 1812, Capt. Hawtayne next joined, 15 Jan. 1816, the Scamander 42, fitting for the West India station. He exchanged, however, in the ensuing April, into the Florida 24, and until placed out of commission in 3>ec. 1818, was chiefly employed in superintending the Revenue-cruisers in the North Sea. This was his last service afloat. He attained Flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841.
The Rear-Admiral married, first, Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Geo. Griffin Stonestreet, Esq., of Clapham, High Sheriff for co. Surrey, in 1800; and secondly, in Feb. 1820, Anne, sister of the present Rear-Admiral Henry Hope, C.B. He was again left a widower in 1825.
HAY. (Captain, 1846.)
George James Hay is second son of the late Lieut.-General Hay, Lieut.-Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Dec. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Thames 32, Capt. Bridges Watkinson Taylor, with whom, and with Capt. Edwards Lloyd Graham, he continued to serve, in the same ship and the Apollo 38, on the West India and Mediterranean stations, principally as Midshipman, until July, 1814. He assisted, in the latter vessel, in capturing, 13 April, 1812 [errata 1], the French frigate-built store-ship Mérinos, of 20 guns and 26 men [errata 2], under the batteries of Corsica, and, on 20 of the following Sept., the National xebec Ulysse, of 6 guns. Participating also in nearly every one of the numerous affairs in which the Apollo’s boats were engaged when in the Adriatic, he was in consequence present at the reduction of the islands of Augusta and Curzola 29 Jan. and 3 Feb. 1813; the capture, on 11 April, of the Devil’s Island, near the north entrance of Corfu; and the cutting-out, 13 days later, after a body of the enemy’s troops had been defeated, of a felucca from under the batteries of St. Cataldo. On 6 July, 1815, while next serving on board the Eurotas 38, Capts. Jas. Lillicrap and Robt. Bloye, Mr. Hay was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Being appointed, on 7 of the following Nov., to the Alceste 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, he sailed in that ship with Lord Amherst for China, and continued in her until wrecked, in the Straits of Gaspar, on her passage home, 18 Feb. 1817, soon after the occurrence of which disaster he appears to have acquired honourable mention for his gallant conduct in pursuing with a single boat, and capturing, a Malay proa, whose crew defended themselves with so much desperation, that the vessel went down as soon as she had been taken. Mr. Hay’s succeeding appointments were – 24 April, 1819, to the Menai 26, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, by whom his exertions on proceeding to the coast of Africa were often noticed, particularly when in command of the Wizard tender, and once when cutting-out in the boats the piratical slaver 'Industry' from under the batteries of Zanzibar – 10 Dec. 1823, to the Maidstone 42, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Chas. Bullen, also on the African station, whence, although on the Admiralty List for promotion, his health obliged him to invalid – and, 4 Dec. 1827, to the command of the Meteor steam-vessel. He obtained a second promotal commission 18 Sept. 1828, but did not again go afloat until 14 Dec. 1844, when he obtained command of the Racehorse 18, and sailed for the East Indies. In Dec. 1845, being at the time at New Zealand, he landed in command of a detachment of seamen and marines, and on the 11th of the following month, after having participated for three weeks in a series of the most trying operations (more fully alluded to in our memoir of Capt. Chas. Graham), during which his zeal and exertions were very conspicuous, stormed and carried, notwithstanding a desperate resistance of four hours, a strongly fortified pah, belonging to a rebel chieftain, named Kawiti.[1] He was in consequence advanced to his present rank by commission bearing date the day of the action, 11 Jan. 1846, and nominated a C.B. 27 July following. He is now on half-pay.
Capt. Hay married, 24 June, 1830, Georgiana Middleton, fourth daughter of Sir John R. Whiteford. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
HAY. (Captain, 1819. f-p., 16; h-p., 32.)
James Hay is son of the late Jas. Hay, Esq., of Belton; great-grandson of John, first Marquess of Tweeddale; and a distant relative of the present Lord John Hay, Capt. R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 13 Oct. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Anson 44, Capt. Philip Chas. Durham, on the Home station, where, until Nov. 1804, he further served with the same Captain, as Midshipman, in the Endymion 40, and with Capts. Jas. Athol Wood and Jas. Oswald in the Acasta 40. He then rejoined Capt. Durham in the Defiance 74, and on 1 March, 1806, after having participated in that ship in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, and in the battle of Trafalgar, was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Electra 18, Capt. Geo. Barne Trollope, on the Leith station. Being next appointed, 11 May, 1807, to the Amaranthe 18, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton, he proceeded to the West Indies, where, on 13 Dec. 1808, he took command of the boats of a small squadron, and much distinguished himself by the gallant manner in which, although under a heavy fire from the enemy’s batteries and troops on the beach, he boarded and carried the French 18-gun brig Le Cigne, lying aground to the northward of St. Pierre’s, Martinique.[2] On the subjugation of the latter island, during the operations connected with which he acted as Commander of the Amaranthe, in consequence of Capt. Brenton’s absence on shore, Mr. Hay became Signal-Lieutenant to the present Sir Geo. Cockburn in the Belleisle 74, and immediately returned to England. On again proceeding to the West Indies, in the Racoon, he joined the Glommen sloop, Capt. Chas. Pickford, under whom he continued until wrecked, and saved by the Gloire frigate, in Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, in Nov. 1809. He was nominated, on 29 of the following Dec, to the Acting command of the Papillon 16, and in that vessel (being confirmed to her by commission dated 2 May, 1810) we find him uninterruptedly employed, on the West India, Cadiz, and Lisbon stations, until 24 April, 1815. He attained his present rank 12 Aug. 1819, and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Hay is a Lieutenant of Yeomanry Cavalry, and Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Haddington. He is married and has issue three sons and one daughter. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
HAY. (Captain, 1841. f-p., 23; h-p., 14.)
James Beckford Lewis Hay, born 25 Nov. 1797 is son of Capt. John Baker Hay, R.N. (1798) who fought under Lord Rodney in his various actions,
