dable land-batteries, were driven on the beach; – the third, on the evening of the 19th and the morning of the 20th July, when the decisive promptness exhibited by Capt. Jackson, in annoying a detachment of the enemy, and thereby preventing its reaching its destination in safety, again elicited the approbation of Lord Keith, and of the Lords of the Admiralty;[1] – and the last, during the celebrated catamaran expedition against the Boulogne flotilla, on which occasion he was intrusted with the charge of one of the principal explosion-vessels, and evinced a wonderful degree of gallantry and presence of mind.[2] During a subsequent command (which he held from Oct. 1804 until the summer of 1807) of the Mosquito 18, we successively discover Capt. Jackson effecting the capture, 13 April, 1805, of the French privateers Orestes and Pylades, of 1 gun, 6 swivels, and 33 men each – escorting, towards the close of the same year, a fleet of transports with 5000 troops, &c., for Lord Cathcart’s army in Hanover – commanding a detachment on the Calais and Boulogne stations, where the Mosquito in one instance fell in with five of the enemy’s armed schooners, two of which were driven on shore and destroyed – directing a number of rocket-boats in an attack made in Oct. 1806, upon the flotilla at Boulogne – and ultimately accompanying the expedition to Copenhagen, during the operations connected with which he was stationed in the Belt to prevent supplies being thrown into the island of Zealand. On the surrender of the Danish fleet, he was appointed Acting-Captain of the Surveillante 38, in which frigate he returned to England. His official promotion to Post rank taking place 5 Nov. 1807, Capt. Jackson, on 8 of the following month, was appointed to the Superb 74, bearing the flag of his former Commander, Rear-Admiral Keats. Continuing in that ship until paid of in Oct. 1809, he went, in consequence, to the Mediterranean in pursuit of a French squadron which had effected its escape from Rochefort – superintended the embarkation from Nyeborg, in Aug. 1808, of the Spanish army under the Marquis de la Romana[3] – was in the Superb when, frozen up at Gottenborg in Jan. 1809, she was only extricated by a canal being cut through four miles of ice – and in the following Aug. accompanied the force sent to the Walcheren. Capt. Jackson’s subsequent appointments were – 14 Jan. 1812, to the Poictiers 74, in which he prevented a French squadron from entering the port of Brest – 21 Dec. 1812, to the Lacedemonian 38, stationed off the coast of North America, whence, after blockading the enemy’s ports and rivers between Cape Fear and Amelia Island, co-operating in the attacks on fort St. Petre and the town of St. Mary’s, and participating in the capture of property calculated at more than half a million sterling, he returned to England in June, 1815 – 29 Aug. 1815, to the Niger 38, in which frigate he first conveyed Hon. Chas. Bagot as Ambassador to the United States, then escorted Sir John Sherbrooke, Governor of Canada, from Halifax to Quebec, and served as Senior officer on the coast of Nova Scotia until Sept. 1817, when, owing to her being found unserviceable, he returned home with his officers and crew in a transport – 29 Oct. 1822, to a three years’ command of the Ordinary at Sheerness – 5 April, 1836, to the Bellerophon 80, fitting for the Mediterranean, where he remained for about twenty months – and 19 Feb. 1838, to the command of the Royal Sovereign yacht, and the Superintendentship of Pembroke Dockyard. He was superseded in the latter appointment on his attainment of Flag-rank 23 Nov. 1841, and not again employed.
Rear-Admiral Jackson was nominated a C.B. 8 Dec. 1815. He married, 6 Dec. 1817, Clarissa Harriet, daughter of Capt. Madden, Agent for the Portsmouth division of Royal Marines, and niece of Major-General Sir Geo. Madden, Kt., K.T.S., by whom he has left issue two sons, Chas. Keats, a Lieutenant R.N., and Geo. Edw. Owen, Second-Lieutenant R.M., 1842. His youngest son, Outram Montagu, who had been educated at Addiscombe, died in the East Indies 17 March, 1844, a few months only after he had been appointed an Ensign of the 26th Native Infantry. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
JACKSON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 18; h-p., 23.)
Robert Aemilius Jackson, born 29 Nov. 1793, is son of Robt. Jackson, Esq., of Hampton, Jamaica, who was Supreme Judge of the Court of Justiciary and Member of the House of Assemblyy and in the Maroon war commanded a brigade or 3000 men. He is brother of Major John Serocold Jackson, late of the 22nd Regt. of Foot, and for many years Brigade-Major at Plymouth; and of Capt. Jas. Irving Jackson, of the 6th Foot, Aide-de-Camp to Prince William of Gloucester, who died in 1809.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Aug. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Malta 84, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capts. Edw. Buller and Wm. Shield; and in Sept. 1807 attained the rating of Midshipman. Removing in Oct. 1808 to the Montagu 74, Capt. Rich. Hussey Moubray, he served in one of the boats of that ship at the reduction of Sta. Maura in April, 1810; after which we find him, from May, 1811, until Aug. 1815, employed, on the Home, north coast of Spain, Cork, and West India stations, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the Egmont 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham, Insolent 14, Capt. Edw. Brazier, and Tigre 74, Capt. John Halliday. During the term of his attachment to the Insolent Mr. Jackson co-operated, in 1812, in the reduction of the Spanish town of Santander. He was frequently also placed in the command of prizes; and on one of those occasions, in Oct. 1813, while he was conducting a Norwegian boat from off Flekeroe to Gottenborg, he was benumbed in the right thigh from extreme exposure to the cold, and so injured that he was ultimately for many years rendered incapable of the least exertion, and is even now scarcely able to bend the knee – effects which we believe were accelerated, if not aggravated, by his endeavours to stop a leak in the stern-plank of a Danish sloop, with which he was shortly afterwards sent to Yarmouth. On leaving the Tigre, as above, Mr. Jackson, who had passed his .examination 7 Oct. 1812, took up a commission da!ed 1 March, 1815. His last appointment was to the Coast Guard, in which he served from 12 Jan. 1835, until July, 1843.
He married, 24 Dec. 1816; and has issue six children.
JACKSON. (Lieut., 1808. f-p., 18; h-p., 29.)
Thomas Jackson (a) entered the Navy, in March, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Marlborough 74, Capt. Thos. Sotheby, stationed in the Channel, In the following Nov. he removed to the Superb 74, commanded at first by Capt. John Sutton, next by the late Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats, and finally by Capt. Donald M‘Leod, with whom he continuously served until Oct. 1807; participating during that period in Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action of 12 July, 1801 – in Nelson’s celebrated pursuit of the combined fleets to the West Indies – in Sir John Duckworth’s action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, on which occasion he was slightly wounded[4] – and in the expedition to Copenhagen. He then became Acting-Lieutenant of the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell, which ship (on being extricated with much difficulty from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the whole winter) effected, in company with the Stately 64, the capture and destruction, 22 March, 1808, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74, Prindts Christian Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which she (the Nassau) sustained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 wounded. Mr. Jackson, whose confirmation in the rank of Lieutenant took place on 17 of the ensuing May, assumed voluntary command, 6 Sept.
