ployed in the Channel; and close to Brest harbour, captured L'Espiegle

corvette.

In August 1794, Capt. Yorke was appointed to the Stag frigate, employed in the Channel and North Sea; and on the 22nd August, the next year, when in company with a small squadron under Capt. Alms' orders, chased two large ships and a cutter, the sternmost of which he brought to action. After an hour's engagement, the vessel struck, and proved to be the Alliance, Batavian frigate, of 36 guns and 240 men, several of whom were killed and wounded. The others, which escaped, were the Argo of the same force, and the Nelly Cutter, of 16 guns. In March 1800, Capt. Yorke was removed to the Jason, of 36 guns; and in the following year to the Canada, 74, which he commanded until the peace.

On the recommencement of hostilities, Capt. Yorke received an appointment to the Prince George, from whence he was removed to the Barfleur, and then to the Christian VII. a large Danish ship with round quarters.

On the 21st of April 1805, His Majesty George III. was graciously pleased to confer on Capt. Yorke the honour of Knighthood. This was preparatory to the Installation of the Knights of the Garter, that took place in St. George's Chapel on the 23rd of the same month, and upon which occasion Sir Joseph Yorke went through the ceremonies as the representative of his brother the Earl of Hardwicke, at that time the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and therefore incapable of attending at that splendid ceremony.

Upon the appointment of Lord Mulgrave, as Master-General of the Ordnance, in 1810, the Right Hon. Charles Yorke became First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Joseph was nominated to a seat at the Admiralty Board, in the room of Capt. Robert Moorsom, and in consequence relinquished the command of the Christian VII.

Sir Joseph was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral of the Blue, July 31st 1810; and in January following hoisted his flag on board the Vengeance, 74, in which he proceeded to the Tagus with a large body of troops in transports, to re-inforce the army under Lord Wellington; he afterwards sailed to the Western Isles, with three sail-ofthe-line and two frigates under his orders, for the protection of an homeward-bound fleet from the East Indies.

In the promotion of Flag-officers, which took place 4th June 1814, Sir Joseph Yorke obtained the rank of Vice-Admiral. In April 1818 he resigned his seat at the Admiralty, and held no public situation afterwards.

On the organization of the Order of the Bath in 1815, Sir Joseph Yorke was nominated a Knight Commander. At the promotion which took place on the ascent of his present Majesty to the throne, Sir Joseph Yorke became an Admiral of the Blue, 22nd July 1830.

Sir Joseph Yorke commenced his Parliamentary career in 1790, when he was returned for Reygate, Surry, while he was Lieutenant of the Victory. This place he continued to represent until 1806, when he was returned for St. Germain's, in Cornwall, which he vacated in 1810 in favour of his brother.

At the general election in 1812, Sir Joseph Yorke was returned for

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Sandwich, but again vacated his seat in 1818; in the same year he was returned for Reygate, which he continued to represent until the recent dissolution of Parliament, and had been re-elected for that place to serve in the New Parliament.

Sir Joseph Yorke married in April 1798, Elizabeth, daughter of James Rattray, of Atherston, North Britain, Esq. by which Lady, who died Jan. 20th, 1812, he had several children, one of whom, Charles Philip, is now Captain of the Alligator frigate in the Mediterranean, and served as Midshipman in the Queen Charlotte before Algiers. Sir Joseph Yorke married secondly, May 22nd, 1813, Urania, Dowager Marchioness of Clanricarde, daughter of George, the twelfth Marquess of Winchester, who survives him. By this marriage there is no issue. Sir Joseph Yorke was the youngest son of the Right Hon. Charles Yorke, who filled the high office of Lord Chancellor in 1770, and was created a Peer of the Realm, by the title of Baron Morden; but dying before the patent had passed the Great Seal, the Peerage did not take place.

The present Earl of Hardwicke succeeded his uncle in the titles and estates. Both his Lordship's sons, Philip, Viscount Royston, who was lost on board the Agatha, merchantship, near Memel, April 7th, 1808, and Charles James, who then became Viscount Royston, and died May 1st, 1810, being the only male heirs, the Earldom devolves on the Right Hon. Charles Philip Yorke, his Lordship's brother, should he survive him, but if not, then it descends to the eldest male survivor of the Admiral's children.

Sir Joseph Yorke was chairman of the Waterloo Bridge Company, in the management of whose concerns he took a very active part.

The last public act of the lamented Admiral's life was the presiding at a meeting at the Thatched House Tavern, on the 29th April, for considering a plan for carrying into effect "A School for the Education of the Sons of Naval and Marine Officers, together with an Orphan Foundation, under the sanction of the King's Most Excellent Majesty," an institution that promises to be of essential service, and which is highly creditable to its projector, Commander Dickson.

The lengthened parliamentary career of Sir Joseph Yorke was distinguished by sound and constitutional views, unflinching zeal for the interests of his profession, and invincible and irresistible good humour. In the tumult of the most stormy debates, his voice was wont to appease the conflicting senate, and restore at least a momentary harmony by the quaint phraseology and shrewd observations he brought to bear upon the discussion. His loss is doubly to be deplored at the present crisis, when his attachment to the constitution, and unswerving honesty, would have rendered him a valuable ally to the cause of rational freedom, and the menaced institutions of his native land.

The remains of Sir Joseph Yorke were deposited in the family vault at Wimple, near Arrington, Cambridgeshire, not far from Wimple Hall, the seat of the Earl of Hardwicke.

THE SERVICES OF THE LATE VICE-ADMIRAL

THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSTONE HOPE, G.C.B.

FEW officers of either service have passed through their professional career less marked by the tongue of calumny than the late Sir William Johnstone Hope. This estimable and good man was supposed by many to have been a native of Scotland, which was not the fact, as he drew his first breath at Finchley, in the county of Middlesex, on the 16th August 1766. He is descended from John de Hope, who, it is said, came from France in the retinue of Magdalene, Queen to James V. in 1537. The father of Sir William, was John Hope, a merchant of London, who married Mary, daughter of Eliab Breton, of Enfield, Esq. and was their third son.

At the early age of ten years he entered the Navy, under the patronage of his uncle Capt. Charles Hope, (who was subsequently Commissioner of Chatham Dock-yard, and died September 16th, 1808,) on board the Weazel of 14 guns, and accompanied him into the Hind, Crescent, Iphigenia, and Leocadia, successively employed in the West Indies, coast of Guinea, North Sea, and Newfoundland. From the latter ship, Mr. Hope removed into the Portland of 50 guns, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Campbell, then at Newfoundland. In October 1782, he obtained the rank of Lieutenant, and was appointed to the Dædalus. After the peace in 1783, this frigate was paid off; but being again put into commission, Lieut. Hope was appointed to her, and proceeded to the coast of Scotland; but in the following year the ship was paid off at Chatham. After this, Lieut. Hope received an appointment as Flag-lieutenant to Admiral Milbanke, commanding at Plymouth. In April 1786, he joined the Pegasus, commanded by his present Majesty, (then His Royal Highness Prince William Henry,) and proceeded to Newfoundland, Halifax, and the West Indies, at which place he exchanged into the Boreas of 28 guns, commanded by the gallant Horatio Nelson, from which ship he was paid off at Sheerness in November 1787.

The Victory being fitted for the flag of Earl Howe, in consequence of the disturbances in Holland, which were speedily suppressed, Lieut. Hope received an appointment to that ship, but was soon afterwards paid off, and placed upon half-pay.

The Adamant of 50 guns being fitted for Sir Richard Hughes, Lieut. Hope was appointed to that ship, and sailed in June 1789 to Halifax, where the Admiral had been appointed Commander-in-chief.

In the following year, Lieut. Hope was promoted to the rank of Master and Commander, and to the command of the Rattle, sloop-of

war.

In June of the same year, Capt. Knox of the Adamant, was compelled through illness to resign the command of that ship, and the Admiral (Sir Richard Hughes,) gave Capt. Hope an order to act in her. Soon after, Capt. Lindsay retired from the command of the Penelope through ill health, and Capt. Hope took the command, which appointment was not, however, confirmed by the Admiralty, and he returned home in the Adamant, and paid her off at Plymouth in 1792.

Capt. Hope's next appointment was to the Incendiary fire-ship, which he commissioned in January 1793, and from which he was on

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January 9th, 1794, promoted to the rank of Post Captain, and to the command of the Bellerophon of 74 guns, the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, but who then had a broad pendant on board as Commodore, which ship was particularly distinguished in the several engagements with the French fleet on the 28th and 29th of May, and glorious 1st of June 1794. For Capt. Hope's services, he was presented with a gold medal, the same as the other Captains on that memorable occasion, by His Majesty George III.

In March 1795, Capt. Hope having quitted the Bellerophon in the January preceding, was appointed to the Tremendous, belonging to the Channel fleet; and in May following, at the request of Admiral Duncan, he joined the Venerable, the flag-ship of that gallant and heroic officer in the North Sea. In consequence of an accident on the head, Capt. Hope met with on board one of the Russian line-of-battle ships, at that time in company with the British fleet, he was reluctantly obliged to resign the command of the Venerable, and owing to that unfortunate circumstance was prevented sharing the glories of the action with the Dutch fleet, under Admiral De Winter, off Camperdown, the 11th of October, 1797. Capt. Hope's next commission was to the Kent, 74, in February 1798, a new ship, and fitting for the flag of Lord Duncan. In this ship, he assisted in the combined expedition against Holland, by this country and Russia, and was present at the capture of the Helder, and the surrender of the Dutch squadron under the orders of Rear-Admiral Storey. With this important intelligence, Capt. Hope arrived in London, for which he received the usual gratuity of 500l.; and was soon after presented by the Emperor of Russia with the riband and cross of the Knight of Malta.

Admiral Lord Duncan having resigned the command of the North Sea squadron, the Kent was sent to the Mediterranean in June 1800, to join the fleet under the orders of Admiral Lord Keith. In the same year, an attack was meditated upon Cadiz, and Capt. Hope was nominated to command a detachment of seamen to be so employed. A violent epidemic disease was, however, found to be raging in the place, and the enterprise was therefore abandoned, and the ships to have been employed returned to Gibraltar.

The expedition against the French, under Buonaparte in Egypt, having been determined upon, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Ralph Abercrombie, with his staff, embarked on board the Kent, at Gibraltar, and Capt. Hope had the honour of conveying the gallant hero to that country where his military career so nobly terminated. Capt. Hope remained on the Egyptian coast until the surrender of Cairo, when the service requiring that the Kent should be an Admiral's ship, Sir Richard Bickerton hoisted his flag accordingly, and Capt. Hope returned home, after the former had offered him the situation of Captain of the Fleet; and for his services on the coast of Egypt, he received by command of the Sultan, the Turkish order of the Crescent.

Capt. Hope remained unemployed until early in 1804, when he was appointed to the Atlas at Chatham, but was soon after, through ill health, compelled to relinquish the command, and which was the last he held as Captain.

In 1807, when Lord Mulgrave became First Lord of the Admiralty,

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Capt. Hope, (who had previously assumed the name of Johnstone, in addition to that of Hope,) was appointed one of the commissioners of that Board, where he remained until 1809, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Capt. Robert Moorsom, then private secretary to Lord Mulgrave.

Capt. Hope was on the 1st of August 1811, appointed one of the Colonels of the Royal Marines; and on the 12th of August, the following year, promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral of the Blue. In November 1813, he was appointed Commander-in-chief at Leith, and on the extension of the Order of the Bath to three classes in 1815, was nominated a Knight Commander. Rear-Admiral Sir W. J. Hope was a second time appointed to the command at Leith in 1816, and hoisted his flag accordingly.

August 12th, 1819, he was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral ; and in January 1820, on the appointment of Sir Graham Moore to the Mediterranean command, he again became a Lord of the Admiralty; and when his present Majesty, then Duke of Clarence, was appointed Lord High Admiral, was named one of the Council to His Royal Highness.

In March 1828, Sir William J. Hope was appointed by the Lord High Admiral, on the death of Sir Thomas B. Thompson, Treasurer of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, and resigned his seat at the Admiralty. Great frauds and neglect being discovered and committed by individuals employed in the office belonging to the Treasurer of the Hospital, an Act of Parliament was obtained for the better regulation of that noble establishment, and the whole placed under the direction of the Board of Admiralty. In consequence of this alteration, the office of Treasurer was abolished, and Sir William Johnstone Hope was appointed one of the five Commissioners for managing the affairs of that excellent institution.

On the death of Admiral Lord Radstock in 1825, Sir William John stone Hope, was, 4th of October of that year, created a Grand Cross of the Bath, and about five months since, by the command of his present Majesty, was sworn in one of the members of the Privy Council.

In 1800, while upon service, Capt. Hope was elected Member of Parliament for the Dumfries district of Burghs; and in 1804 Member for the County on the death of Gen. Sir Robert Laurie, and which place he continued to represent until 1830, when, at the general election, he declined the honour of again doing so, and was succeeded by his eldest son John James Hope Johnstone, Esq.

Sir William Johnstone Hope married July the 8th, 1792, Lady Anne Johnstone Hope, the eldest daughter of James, third Earl of Hopetoun, who died at Raehill, near Moffatt, August 1818, and had issue four sons and two daughters, one of whom is maid of honour to her present Majesty. The eldest son is claimant for the disputed title of Marquis of Annandale, through his mother, and who with his brothers and sisters, place the name of Johnstone after that of Hope, while Sir William prefixed it before that of Hope the same as his wife. The three youngest sons of this marriage are all captains in the navy, one, William James Hope Johnstone, is now captain of the Britannia, the flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the Mediterranean, and the others both on half-pay.