subsequently find him commanding the Port Mahon brig, on the Portsmouth station, from whence he proceeded to the north coast of Spain, where his boats were very actively employed in landing parties to destroy the fortifications of various places evacuated by the enemy. He obtained post rank Feb. 7, 1812.
Captain Hatton married, in May, 1817, Harriet, daughter of the late Colonel and Lady Cecilia Latouche; by whom he has two children. His only brother, Henry John Hatton, is a Commander R.N.
Agent.– Sir Francis M. Ommanney.
ARTHUR BATT BINGHAM, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1812.]
This officer is lineally descended from Robert De Bingham, of Binghams Melcombe, near Blandford; whose direct ancestor formed a matrimonial alliance with the Turbevilles, of Dorsetshire, in the reign of Henry I,; and from whose fourth son the Earl of Lucan and Baron Clanmorris trace their descent. A place called Binghams, near Shaftesbury, now belonging to Captain Bingham’s mother, and which will become his own at her demise, has been in the possession of the family ever since they first settled in England. Binghams Melcombe was so named in consequence of the above marriage.
Mr. Arthur Batt Bingham was made a lieutenant, May 1, 1804; and at the commencement of 1809, we find him serving as first of la Nereide frigate. Captain Robert Corbett, on the Cape of Good Hope station.
On the 1st May, 1809, la Nereide sailed from Simon’s bay, where she had refitted after being dismasted in a hurricane, and proceeded on a cruise off the Mauritius and Bourbon, then in a state of blockade. In Aug. following, his ship’s company requiring a change of diet. Captain Corbett anchored off St. Rose, on the eastern side of the latter island, and commenced an attack, within grape-shot, upon two batteries commanding that anchorage. Immediately afterwards, the
