rengo of 80 guns, having Rear-Admiral Linois on board, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. On 9 Aug. in the same year Mr. Huskisson was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Foudroyant; an appointment which the Admiralty sanctioned by a commission signed on 15 of the ensuing Nov. In July, 1807, he was ordered to join the Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Admiral Gambier, to whom he officiated as Flag-Lieutenant during the operations which led to the subsequent fall of Copenhagen. In Jan. 1808 he obtained an appointment to the Hyperion 36, Capt. Thos. Chas. Brodie, fitting at Chatham, whence, in the spring, he sailed for Jamaica in the Melpomène 38, with Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, who, on their arrival, placed him in charge, on 5 July, of the Fleur de la Mer schooner, in which vessel he appears to have been for some time employed at the blockade of St. Domingo. Being advanced, 18 Jan. 1809, to the command of the Pelorus 18, Capt. Huskisson, on 17 Oct. in that year, distinguished himself by the very gallant style in which he supported Capt. Hugh Cameron ot the Hazard 18, at the destruction of a battery near Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, while the boats of the two sloops were effecting the annihilation of a privateer in the manner alluded to in our memoir of Lieut. Hugh Hunter. The loss of the Pelorus on this occasion amounted to 2 men killed and 6 wounded. After assisting at the reduction of Guadeloupe, Capt. Huskisson was appointed Acting-Captain of the Blonde frigate, and directed to escort home a valuable fleet of merchantmen. The vacancy which he had been selected to fill not being of a nature to entitle him to confirmation, he rejoined the Pelorus, and continued to serve in her, on the Jamaica station, until posted, 14 March, 1811, into the Garland 28. In June, 1812, being still in the West Indies, he was removed by Vice-Admiral Chas. Stirling to the Barbadoes 24; in which ship he succeeded, while in protection of a convoy, in capturing, at the close of a seven hours’ chase, the U.S. Revenue-cruizer James Maddison, pierced for 14, but carrying only 10 guns, with a complement of 65 men. A few days after this event the Barbadoes was separated from the convoy in a violent gale, during which she lost her top-masts and main-yard. Having refitted at Bermuda, Capt. Huskisson took charge of three small vessels bound to Halifax, and was proceeding thither with 60,000 dollars on board for the dockyard, when, on the night of 28 Sept. 1812, the Barbadoes and two of her consorts were unfortunately wrecked on the N.W. bar of Sable Island. The specie, however, was saved by being thrown overboard with a buoy attached to each of the cases; and at the expiration of 12 days the sufferers were released from their unpleasant position by the advent of a frigate and schooner sent to their assistance. Capt. Huskisson, who was most fully acquitted by court-martial of all blame for the loss of his ship, was next employed, from 12 June to 28 Nov. 1815, in the Euryalus 42, and Perseus 22; in the former of which ships he cruized in command of a small squadron off Havre and the mouth of the Seine, until the surrender of Napoleon Buonaparte. Rejoining the Euryalus in July, 1818, he sailed in that frigate for the West Indies, where, on 18 Nov. 1819, in consequence of the death of Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell, he became Senior officer of the squadron in the Caribbean seas, and hoisted a broad pendant. On the arrival of Rear-Admiral Fahie from England in May, 1820, Capt. Huskisson was instructed to repair to Jamaica, and place himself under the orders of Sir Home Popham; and on 16 June, eight days only after he had reached his destination, he again hoisted a broad pendant, and assumed the chief command on the station, owing to the health of the Admiral necessitating his return to England. On being relieved by Sir Chas. Rowley in Dec. 1820, Capt. Huskisson himself invalided. His last appointment afloat was to the Semiramis 42, flag-ship at Cork of Lord John Colville, the command of which he retained from 1 Sept, 1821 until superseded, at his own request, in March, 1822. He was admitted into Greenwich Hospital 15 Oct. 1830.
Capt. Huskisson filled the office of Paymaster of the Navy from 28 March, 1827, until its abolition in Oct. 1830. He married, 22 Aug. 1813, Miss E. Wedge, daughter of an agriculturist eminent in the west of Staffordshire, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Thomas, died at Malta, 16 May, 1833, while serving as Midshipman of H.M.S. Cordelia. His second son, Wm. Milbanke, holds an appointment in the Foreign Office; and his youngest, John, is a First-Lieutenant, R.M.
HUSSEY. (Lieut., 1822. f-p., 35; h-p., 4.)
Richard Hussey was born 24 Oct. 1796.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Peruvian sloop, Capts. Fras. Douglas, Berkeley, Dickinson, Robt. Winthrop, and Geo. Kippen, stationed at first in the Channel, and next in the West Indies, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. 1810, and continued to serve until Nov. 1814. He then accompanied Capt. Kippen into the Diomede troop-ship, and on 14 Dec. following served with the boats of a squadron at the capture, on Lake Borgne, of five American gun-boats under Commodore Jones, whose capture was not accomplished until the British, after a severe conflict, had sustained a loss of 17 men killed and 77 wounded. In the summer of 1815 he successively joined the Havock sloop, and Pique frigate, Capts. Geo. Truscott and Hon. Anthony Maitland, on removing with the latter of whom to the Glasgow 50, it was his fortune to share, as Master’s Mate, in the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. During the next seven years Mr. Hussey, we find, served as Admiralty Midshipman and Mate in the Prometheus 22, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Thornbrough, Spey 20, Capt. Jas. Kearney White, and Ganymede 26; and Hyperion 42, both commanded by Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, on the Home, Mediterranean, and South American stations. On 26 Dec. 1822, he was created a Lieutenant in the Sparrowhawk 18, Capts. Edw. Boxer, Hon. Rich. Saunders Dundas, and Robt. Stuart, which sloop, after having for a length of time had charge of her, he brought home from the Mediterranean (she had previously been on the Halifax station) and paid off in 1825. Lieut. Hussey’s next appointments were, 29 April, 1828, and 1 March, 1829, to the Samarang 28, and Madagascar 46, Capts. Wm. Fanshawe Martin and Hon. Sir R. C. Spencer, also in the Mediterranean. He invalided in Aug. 1829; and, since 3 April, 1831, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
He married, in Dec. 1825, Sophia, third daughter of Jas. Cockrell, Esq., by whom he has issue four children.
HUTCHESON. (Captain, 1841.)
Francis Deane Hutcheson entered the Navy 13 Oct. 1813; and, while serving on board the America 74, Capt. Josias Rowley, was present at the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn, also at the occupation of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts in the Gulf of Spezia, and at the reduction of Genoa and its dependencies. In 1815, being at the time in the Undaunted 38, he assisted at the capture of a convoy at Barletta, and at the taking of the Tremiti islands. When afterwards with Rear-Admiral David Milne in the Impregnable 98, Mr. Hutcheson had an opportunity of sharing in the bombardment of Algiers, 27 Aug. 1816. He was made Lieutenant, 19 Jan. 1822, into the Pyramus 42, Capt. Fras. Newcombe, on the West India station, and next appointed, 15 June, 1826, and 8 Dec. 1827, to the Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and Aetna bomb, Capts. Thos. Edw. Hoste and Stephen Lushington, on the Mediterranean station. He was promoted, 9 Aug. 1828, to the command Of the Pelican sloop, and, having paid that vessel off 14
