We were then prepared to have opened with eleven 32-pounders, twelve 18-pounders, four mortars, and four howitzers.
“Every captain, officer, and other person in the squadron has done his duty. Captain Rowley has been, as usual, most prominent on every occasion, I admired the example he shewed at the attack of the Schanza, with the courage and activity of Lieutenants Hotham and Moore, and Mr Hibbert, midshipman of the Eagle[1].” * * * *
From this period until Jan. 1814, Lieutenant Hotham commanded a flotilla employed in the river Po, in co-operation with the Austrian army; and honorable mention is made of him in several official letters from Captain Rowley to Rear-Admiral Freemantle, as well as in a despatch from Count Nugent to Earl Bathurst, then H.M. Secretary of State for the War Department.
The Eagle formed part of the squadron which accompanied Louis XVIII. to his recovered dominions, in April, 1814; and was paid off at Chatham in the course of the following month. Lieutenant Hotham’s promotion to the rank of commander took place June 15th, 1814; on which occasion he was appointed to the Fervent sloop of war.
After witnessing the grand naval review, by the allied monarchs at Spithead, Captain Hotham proceeded to Bermuda and the West Indies, from whence he returned to Portsmouth, where the Fervent was put out of commission, in June 1815. His last appointment was, April 27th, 1824, to the Sappho, of 18 guns, fitting out for the Halifax station, where he received his commission as captain, dated April 4th, 1825.
Agent.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, & Son.
CHARLES MITCHELL, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1825.]
Eldest son of the late Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell, K.B. whose services are recorded in the Nav. Chron. XVI. 90–107; and brother to Captains Nathaniel and Andrew Mitchell, R.N.
