tinique, Dec 12th, 1808[1]. His first commission bears date Jan. 9th, 1809; after which we find him serving in the President frigate, successively commanded by Captains Samuel Warren and Francis Mason. He obtained his present rank on the 30th Aug. 1816; and a pension of £150 per annum, on account of his wounds, Feb. 16th, 1816,
HENRY JOHN HATTON, Esq.
Gentleman Usher of His Majesty’s Privy Chamber.
[Commander.]
This officer was the second and youngest son of George Hatton, Esq. formerly M.P. for Lisburne, co, Antrim, by Lady Isabella R. Seymour Conway, sixth daughter of Francis, first Marquis of Hertford. He was born at Dublin in 1790; and entered the royal navy towards the close of 1803, as midshipman on board the Crescent 36, Captain Lord William Stuart, whom he followed into the Lavinia 38, and continued to serve under till advanced to the rank of lieutenant, Nov. 3d, 1809. During the remainder of the war, we find him in the Iris frigate, commanded, for the last three years thereof, by Captain Hood Hanway Christian. The Lavinia led the squadron which forced the passage between the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand, exposed to the enemy’s fire during two hours (owing to the lightness of the wind and an adverse tide), Aug. 11th, 1809. The Iris was actively employed on the north coast of Spain in 1811 and 1812[2]; and subsequently captured three American letters of marque.
The subject of this article obtained a commander’s commission on the 30th Aug. 1815; and married, in Sept. 1831, a few months only before his death, Josephine Louise, daughter of the late Mons. Lavoley, of Rouen, in Normandy,
